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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Joakim Tjernlund" <Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: write suspend and/or erase suspend
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:31:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12285.1028244660@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003d01c2399a$b519a9e0$0200a8c0@telia.com>

Joakim.Tjernlund@lumentis.se said:
> When a erase or write is suspened to allow some other part of the FS
> to read, is that read garanted to read from another sector than the
> one that has been suspended?

> I am asking since I think it's not allowed to access the sector that
> has a  suspended operation. I am using Intel Strata Flash. 

Correct. Currently we don't suspend writes, but when we do we need to make 
sure we get that right. Reading from a block on which an erase is in 
progress is a silly idea anyway, so I don't care that we don't check for 
that and make the reader wait.

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-01 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-31 23:02 jffs2_scan_eraseblock() - errors Curtis, Allen
2002-08-01 10:44 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-01 20:33 ` write suspend and/or erase suspend Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-01 23:31   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-08-02  9:27     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-08-02  9:42       ` David Woodhouse

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