[PATCH] mtd: add documentation about locking context of MTD API

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 07:44:31 EDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:51 +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> Richard Weinberger <richard at 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].

Well, Richard has a point :-) But I guess you can simply write "may
sleep" instead of "sleeping context". Or may be even use "may_sleep()"
in the wrappers?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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