All OMAP platforms: MMC is broken

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

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 04:06:09PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 06 October 2015 03:41 PM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > On 6 October 2015 at 11:44, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> >> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [151006 02:04]:
> >>> 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 anHi,
> >>>>>> 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.
> >>
> >> Hmm DT-based boot finds the MMC card for LDP, dmesg below from DT boot [1].
> >> Looks like you're on on -rc4 and not -rc3. My guess is that MMC is not
> >> working for you with DT-based booting because you don't seem to have
> >> CONFIG_REGULATOR_PBIAS in your seed config for. Care to try enabling that
> >> for both your omap3 and omap4 seed config files?
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> I'm thinking along the same lines. In general, I do not and will not
> >> apply any patches that are not fixes until all critical regressions are
> >> out of the way. So not applying anything new for v4.4 until these MMC
> >> regressions are fixed for v4.3.
> >>
> > 
> > Tony, Russell - just wanted to say thanks for putting a big effort in
> > fixing this. I was expecting support from Kishon, but I guess he's
> > busy.
> > 
> > Unfortunate, I don't have any of the hardware that fails, otherwise I
> > would of course be helping out more. The only thing I can think of is
> > to revert the entire patchset I picked up for 4.3 from Kishon for the
> > omap_hsmmc driver, but then I am not sure if that would cause other
> > issues...
> 
> Please don't do that as that will just mask lot of bugs in the
> devicetree and might get MMC working. Indeed I was busy but I'll try to
> get this resolved asap. The 2 pending issues as far as I know

Sorry, but no.  None of this "mask bugs ... might" crap.  Either they're
bug fixes, or they aren't bug fixes.  This should be a definite decision,
not some vague crap.

If they're bug fixes, why the _hell_ aren't they queued for -rc kernels?

This sounds really screwed up to me, and it's no wonder that OMAP MMC got
broken if this is the kind of thing that's going on.

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