From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Richard J. Broberg" <rjb@ayrnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Is there any interest in providing a query lock to go with lock and unlock?
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 11:09:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14180.1028628549@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208050819.40628.rjb@ayrnetworks.com>
rjb@ayrnetworks.com said:
> We have a parochial need which I have met in a heavy handed way by
> adding a mtd vector and an ioctl.
That makes sense. Change the name to something like test_lock() or
is_locked(), and perhaps declare that it shall only take an 'offset'
argument which must be the start of a block, rather than doing all the
range stuff -- the users can do that themselves if they need it, can't they?
--
dwmw2
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2002-08-05 15:19 Is there any interest in providing a query lock to go with lock and unlock? Richard J. Broberg
2002-08-06 10:09 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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