RE: MMC retry mechanism

["Madhusudhan" <madhu.cr@ti.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Ossman [mailto:pierre-list@ossman.eu]
> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:21 AM
> To: Madhusudhan
> Cc: 'Adrian Hunter'; linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: MMC retry mechanism
> 
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:08:05 -0500
> "Madhusudhan" <madhu.cr@ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Adrian,
> >
> > With respect to the below commit, It looks like currently the retry
> > mechanism only handles the READ path.
> >
> > I wonder could a similar retry logic feasible for the WRITE path?
> >
> 
> The claim is that doing so can break some filesystem drivers (notably
> the journaling ones). There has been several threads and patches about
> this in the past.
> 
Okay. Thanks for the info. I would like to read those discussions and the
patches, any reference? Or where do I look for them and any good way to
search such threads in general?

Regards,
Madhu

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