From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guennadi Liakhovetski Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] mmc: add DT bindings for more MMC capability flags Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:32:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20130206151549.GA11609@e106331-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <1923973.xHEn0Jh3IU@wuerfel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1923973.xHEn0Jh3IU@wuerfel> Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Mark Rutland , "linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , Chris Ball , Magnus Damm List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2013 17:25:42 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Thank for pointing me out at that thread. However, I don't think > > MMC_CAP_POWER_OFF_CARD has anything to do with compatibility or hardware > > revisions. At least I haven't yet come across any sd/mmc hosts, that also > > supply card power. You could "derive" this flag from the presence of a > > regulator, capable of changing its status (switching on / off), but even > > then you're not guaranteed, that you actually can (and want to) power the > > card off at run-time - the regulator can be shared etc. So, an explicit > > flag is needed. > > It sounds like something that should be handled in a controller specific > way I think. E.g. on SDHCI, there seems to always be a method to power > down the card using the SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL register, even without > any external regulators. If I understand correctly, that register only controls card bus power. Further sdhci.c uses regulators (host->vmmc) to power up and down the card. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer http://www.open-technology.de/