Bottom halves being disabled

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 05:09 -0700, Ed Co wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In the NOR driver code, the spin locks are acquired
> everywhere with bottom halves disabled using the
> spin_lock_bh() API. My doubt is why are the bottom
> halves disabled? (Doesn't that add to the real time
> latency on the system!)
> 
> Hoping someone would clear the doubt

Because we intend the erase completion to be asynchronous, hence we lock
against the timers which may one day check for it. There's no real
reason we couldn't switch to spin_lock() for now.

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dwmw2