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From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MMC performance
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:49:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416A8F5F.6000000@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041011131919.B19175@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King wrote:

>Only if you can reliably know how many bytes you've tranferred when
>an error occurs.  Without that, the only safe way to do a write is
>sector by sector.
>
>  
>
What would happen if we failed the entire request? Rewriting a few 
sectors is harmless. Or will it break in more exotic ways?

Rgds
Pierre


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-11 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-11 11:05 MMC performance Pierre Ossman
2004-10-11 12:19 ` Russell King
2004-10-11 13:18   ` Alan Cox
2004-10-11 15:27     ` Pierre Ossman
2004-10-11 18:01       ` Pierre Ossman
2004-10-18 19:26         ` Pierre Ossman
2004-10-11 13:49   ` Pierre Ossman [this message]

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