linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: char: Get rid of Big MTD Lock

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Message-Id: <20210302171355.1019-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Tue,  2 Mar 2021 18:13:55 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Alexander A Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mtd: char: Get rid of Big MTD Lock

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 21:18:45 UTC, Alexander A Sverdlin wrote:
> From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>
> 
> Get rid of central chrdev MTD lock, which prevents simultaneous operations
> on completely independent physical MTD chips. Replace it with newly
> introduced per-master mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel