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From: Pierre Ossman <pierre-list@ossman.eu>
To: Madhusudhan <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: 'Adrian Hunter' <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MMC retry mechanism
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:20:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090906162041.1f4d939d@mjolnir.ossman.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <011c01ca2dac$2de779d0$544ff780@am.dhcp.ti.com>

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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.

Rgds
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-06 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04 22:08 MMC retry mechanism Madhusudhan
2009-09-06 14:20 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2009-09-06 17:58   ` Madhusudhan
2009-09-14 19:37     ` Pierre Ossman
2009-09-07  7:17 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-09-10 21:20   ` Madhusudhan

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