Re: [patch 4/4] sdio: disable CD resistor

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>]

Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:55:59 +0100
> David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> wrote:
> 
>> sdio: disable CD resistor
>>
>> Disable the card detect resistor to ensure all data lines are equally
>> loaded. Not doing this can have a negative impact on buses with
>> marginal signal quality.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
> 
> I'm not sure about this. I've seen several hosts which lack a
> mechanical detect switch.

If host is correctly designed it will have identical pull-ups on all the
DAT lines, and therefore this internal pull-up should be disconnected.

However, given that disabling the pull-up may cause 4 bit transfers to
fail on hardware that omits a host-side pull-up on DAT3 I agree that the
resistor should remain enabled.

Is there an example driver for a host that uses pin 1/DAT3 sensing for
card detection?  I'm curious about how removal detections work.

App Note on card detection goes into the use of this resistor in more
detail but I don't believe this document is publicly available :(.

David
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