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From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: add documentation about locking context of MTD API
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:51:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4wo8arp.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F67B3B8.7090909@nod.at> (Richard Weinberger's message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:31:20 +0100")

Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> writes:

> 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.
>> 
>
> Why do we need this comment?
Because I was asked to, in [1].

> "sleeping" context isn't special, it's the default.
> atomic would be...
Ah, well, maybe. From what I've seen in the usb drivers area, portions of code
are called from interrupts, through hooks. As a driver writer, I'm always
interested to know whether I can msleep() or not.

Cheers.

--
Robert

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2012-March/040236.html

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-19 22:26 [PATCH] mtd: add documentation about locking context of MTD API Robert Jarzmik
2012-03-19 22:31 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-03-19 22:51   ` Robert Jarzmik [this message]
2012-03-20 11:44     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-21 20:20       ` Robert Jarzmik
2012-03-22  9:37         ` Artem Bityutskiy

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