From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Frederic Giasson <fgiasson@mediatrix.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infrared.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Purpose of sync() function
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:43:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6352.992335423@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1BED55F35F4D3118C0F00E0295CFF4D99549E@mail.mediatrix.com>
fgiasson@mediatrix.com said:
> I have not implemented the sync() function, because looking at
> others drivers it doest not seem to do anything useful. Can anyone
> tell me if I am right or wrong, and what should be the purpose of the
> sync function^
The sync function should wait for all pending erases to complete. As
nobody's actually implemented asynchronous erases yet - all the erase
functions block and call the callback before returning, this is a NOP in
all current drivers.
--
dwmw2
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2001-06-11 15:17 Purpose of sync() function Frederic Giasson
2001-06-12 8:43 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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