Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bna: Added flash sub-module and ethtool eeprom entry points.

From: Jan Ceuleers <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:02:27 +0100

On 12/24/2011 11:08 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I asked how long a single call would take, because the RTNL lock will be
> held for this time.  Presumably it doesn't take very long to write a 4K
> chunk, so this shouldn't be a problem.
>

461K is around 115 4K blocks. If these take around 3 minutes to flash 
then that's about 1.5s per 4K block.

Is it OK to hold the RTNL lock for that length of time?