From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Ball Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1 v7]mmc: Support-FFU-for-eMMC-v5.0 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:34:29 +0100 Message-ID: <868uodnch6.fsf@void.printf.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from void.printf.net ([89.145.121.20]:38192 "EHLO void.printf.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904AbaGAAeg (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:34:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Grant Grundler's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:35:05 -0700") Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: Grant Grundler Cc: "cjb@laptop.org" , Ulf Hansson , "linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" , Alex Lemberg , Avi Shchislowski , Olof Johansson Hi Grant, sorry about the delay. On Tue, Jul 01 2014, Grant Grundler wrote: > ping? Another week is past. > > I know you guys are busy with other stuff. But please at least publish > what you think the next steps for this patch are. > > This is a critical patch for supporting eMMC products and adding > additional support for other vendors. I'd like to continue working > with "upstream" and the lack of response in this case is making this > unnecessarily difficult. It's tough to merge a significant patch that you haven't tested and we haven't tested. We could do it, though -- I'd like to hear what Ulf thinks. Please could you give a quick explanation of why doing this in kernel-space makes more sense than using your mmc-utils version? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball