doc_delay(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, this is doc_delay(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and its whole job is to delay docg3 operations. that’s it, that’s the name 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void doc_delay (struct docg3 *docg3 , int nbNOPs );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• docg3 — the device. the actual struct docg3 we’re working with, no cap.
• nbNOPs — the number of NOPs to issue. yes, you’re literally telling it how many NOPs to send 🔥

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here’s the tea: no specification is available, which means the right timings between chip commands are unknown. 😭 like, we do not have the official timing info, bestie.

The only available piece of information is the observed nops on a working docg3 chip. that’s the one clue we have — observed NOPs from a chip that actually works 🕵️‍♀️✨

So doc_delay relies on a busy loop of NOPs, instead of scheduler friendlier msleep functions or blocking mdelay. it’s giving “spin the NOPs until the timing vibes are right” rather than “go to sleep and let the scheduler handle it.” periodt 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c

and the whole docg3 friend group:

• doc_read_data_area(9)
• doc_write_data_area(9)
• doc_set_reliable_mode(9)
• doc_set_asic_mode(9)
• doc_set_device_id(9)
• doc_set_extra_page_mode(9)
• doc_setup_addr_sector(9)
• doc_setup_writeaddr_sector(9)
• doc_read_seek(9)
• doc_write_seek(9)
• doc_read_page_ecc_init(9)
• doc_write_page_ecc_init(9)
• doc_ecc_disable(9)
• doc_hamming_ecc_init(9)
• doc_ecc_bch_fix_data(9)
• doc_read_page_prepare(9)
• doc_read_page_getbytes(9)
• doc_write_page_putbytes(9)
• doc_get_bch_hw_ecc(9)
• doc_page_finish(9)
• doc_read_page_finish(9)
• calc_block_sector(9)
• doc_read_oob(9)
• doc_block_isbad(9)
• doc_get_erase_count(9)
• doc_get_op_status(9)
• doc_write_erase_wait_status(9)
• doc_erase_block(9)
• doc_erase(9)
• doc_write_page(9)
• doc_guess_autoecc(9)
• doc_fill_autooob(9)
• doc_backup_oob(9)
• doc_write_oob(9)
• doc_set_driver_info(9)
• doc_probe_device(9)
• doc_release_device(9)
• docg3_resume(9)
• docg3_suspend(9)
• docg3_probe(9)
• docg3_release(9)

catch you later, bestie — this page comes from ./drivers/mtd/devices, dated October 2026, and it’s the doc_delay(9) manual. mwah 💖✨