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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@stericsson.com>
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>,
	Per Forlin <per.forlin@stericsson.com>,
	Johan Rudholm <johan.rudholm@stericsson.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Jasi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: core: Prevent eMMC VCC supply to be cut from late init
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:56:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509155622.GE3955@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336572926-21013-1-git-send-email-ulf.hansson@stericsson.com>

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On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 04:15:26PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> 
> For eMMC cards that has been initialized from a bootloader,
> the VCC voltage supply must not be cut in an uncontrolled
> manner, without first sending SLEEP or POWEROFF_NOTIFY.
> 
> The regulator_init_complete late initcall, may cut the VCC
> regulator if it's reference counter is zero. To be able to
> prevent the regulator from being cut, mmc_start_host, which
> should execute at device init and thus before late init,
> calls mmc_power_up. Then the host driver is able to increase
> the reference to the regulator.

This looks like a good, simple solution - working out how we avoid extra
power ups will probably be more invasive and might not be worth the
effort for something that's boot time only.

Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-09 14:15 [PATCH] mmc: core: Prevent eMMC VCC supply to be cut from late init Ulf Hansson
2012-05-09 15:56 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-05-09 16:56   ` Chris Ball
2012-07-10 15:19 ` Girish K S
2012-07-10 17:32   ` Chris Ball
2012-07-11 12:40     ` Girish K S

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