[U-Boot] non-blocking flash functions - is this possible/acceptable?

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Wolfgang Wegner,

In message <20091027125146.GA3216 at leila.ping.de> you wrote:
> 
> We hacked our U-Boot to provide non-blocking variants for flash
> access for the relevant functions, which are:
...
> Is such a use case generally acceptable in U-Boot, and if so, does
> anybody have an idea how to implement those without all this duplicate
> code?
> Of course I can also implement this stuff in our board code, but it
> seems a bit unlogical to break the flash handling apart and the bloat
> would remain, just in a different place.

I understand your use case, and why it makes sense to you (or at least
seems to make sense).