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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: add documentation about locking context of MTD API
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:51 +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> writes:
>=20
> > Am 19.03.2012 23:26, schrieb Robert Jarzmik:
> >> Add a comment to mtd header for MTD drivers writters, so that they
> >> know that each function in the MTD API, ie. in the mtd_info
> >> structure, is called in a sleeping context.
> >>=20
> >
> > Why do we need this comment?
> Because I was asked to, in [1].

Well, Richard has a point :-) But I guess you can simply write "may
sleep" instead of "sleeping context". Or may be even use "may_sleep()"
in the wrappers?

--=20
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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