Re: [PATCH] mmc: move regulator handling to core

[Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:58:05PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > >On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 04:27:39PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> 
> > >>What about arch/arm/mach-omap2/mmc-twl4030.c ?
> > >
> > >Argh, missed that one. And this particular case doesn't fit to my
> > >modifications. I don't know the code well ...  We would need to
> > >have a struct mmc_host * in all the functions there calling
> > >mmc_regulator_{set,get}_ocr. Any idea how to resolve that?
> > >
> > 
> > Pass it down from the omap_hsmmc driver.
> 
> It's not that easy, unfortunately, because this code does not conform to
> all the other mmc host drivers in tree.
> 
> I don't understand why things are done the way it is currently
> implemented. Why isn't there a mmc_host for each slot, and why is a
> regulator reference acquired for each slot, and not once for the whole
> device?
> 
> Even with the default 'vcc' supply factored out to the mmc core, the
> 'vmmc_aux' regulator would still need some extra attention, but I would
> also do that from the omap_hsmmc driver rather than in the plaform
> support code.
> 
> Moving the regulator handling to the mmc core would require a major
> cleanup to all this code, but I don't have such hardware to test my
> modifications. Can anyone help here?

Can anyone of the OMAP people help sort this out?

Thanks,
Daniel