Mtd driver as block device and char device
 

Hi All ,

MTD (flash) devices can be access as character device as well as block device.To access flash as char device we can use /dev/mtd<partition number> and if we want to access mtd as block device , we can use /dev/mtdblock<partion number> ...

I am faceing a error
MTD do_write_buffer(): software timeout ..if i am writing mtd device as char device. this error disappear if i use mtd device as block device .

Can any one please tell me reason behind this.

Thanks in advance...

It means that the chip didn't answer in some reasonable time. Are you sure there's no bug in your MTD driver?