[PATCH][MTD] mtdpart.c: allow other drivers to get physical address of partition

Jörn Engel joern at logfs.org
Fri Aug 3 07:31:35 EDT 2007


On Fri, 3 August 2007 13:03:49 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> >An erase can take up to 5 seconds.
> I see. Trouble for "real time" applications ;-). But once we're 
> receiving a lot of page faults we end up suspending the erase forever. 
> We need a deterministic end of the erase cycle as well, don't we?

Absolutely.

Jörn

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