All OMAP platforms: MMC is broken

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:38:13PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:11:56AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [151005 07:57]:
> > > * Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [151005 07:44]:
> > > > * Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> [151005 04:28]:
> > > > 
> > > > Based on some tests it seems that the duovero unpaired regulator usage
> > > > is fixed by reverting:
> > > > 
> > > > c55d7a055364 ("mmc: host: omap_hsmmc: use regulator_is_enabled to
> > > > find pbias status")
> > > 
> > > With commit c55d7a055364 my guess is that the PBIAS regulator is
> > > already on from an earlier MMC probe and getting re-enabled when
> > > a deferred probe happens?
> > 
> > Unless somebody has a better fix in mind for the above, I suggest
> > we revert it for the -rc kernel.
> 
> Let me try reverting that in my build tree, and...
> 
> > > > And it seems that omap3 legacy MMC is broken earlier in the
> > > > series with:
> > > > 
> > > > 7d607f917008 ("mmc: host: omap_hsmmc: use
> > > > devm_regulator_get_optional() for vmmc")
> > > > 
> > > > This one does not cleanly revert so have not yet tried reverting
> > > > it.
> > > 
> > > And with commit 7d607f917008 I'm guessing we can't return an
> > > error if the PBIAS regulator does not exist as that's not there
> > > for the legacy booting.
> > 
> > For omap3 legacy booting, we keep getting -EPROBE_DEFER for
> > all the optional regulators.
> > 
> > Something like the following might be the minimal fix for the -rc
> > cycle?
> 
> applying this patch.  If that gets things going again, then we
> _definitely_ should get both of these to Linus ASAP.  The breakage
> has been around far too long already.

Last night's build shows that this fixes the non-DT LDP3430 booting, but
DT-based LDP3430 and SDP4430 both remain broken for the same reason -
neither can find their SD cards.

We're at -rc4.  That means we're could be only three weeks away from 4.3
being released, and DT OMAP has yet to boot _once_ here.

What I find *totally* unacceptable is the lack of reaction from the MMC
and TI people: it's just like "we'll break your crap, and we'll ignore
reports of regressions."  That is *not* acceptable in any shape or form,
and people who do this _should_ have their future patches ignored until
they demonstrate that they understand the need to not break stuff.

I'm at the point of suggesting that there should be a moritorium on all
OMAP related development for 4.4: delay all development to 4.5, and have
4.4 as a pure bug-fixing _only_ cycle for OMAP.  If 4.3 is released and
OMAP is still broken, then I don't think there's an option on that.

Maybe the idea that development work won't hit mainline for another 4
months will help focus the minds on not breaking stuff and then ignoring
regression reports.

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