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Subject: Re: Is NAND MTD preemption safe?
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On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:37 +0200, Ronny L Nilsson wrote:
> Hi
> I have a question about MTD, NAND and race conditions. Basically I'm 
> wondering if the NAND support in MTD is preemption safe?

Care to read the code ?

All chip access functions have been serialized by nand_get_device() and
nand_release_device() forever.

	tglx