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From: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] My work on MemoryStick system
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:50:12 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <292036.65081.qm@web37607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282352917.13597.5.camel@maxim-laptop>

> 
> I just tested this series with Jmicron, and unfortunelly
> there are bugs.
> 
> * driver refuses to handle 26 byte TPC I use to read regs
> (sizeof(ms_registers). If I bump it to 32, it works.

It will work with any multiply of 4 (24 and 28 work as well). It's a known
"feature".

> 
> * With this fix first few reads still fail.
> That means that card isn't detected always because boot
> blocks might not
> be read.
> Later card works fine.
> 
> * Also I found out that msproblk.c allocates memory for
> attributes IO
> using stock kmalloc, and hangs that to driver.
> However if driver doesn't support such address, it will
> fail.

Why would hardware do anything at all with attribute memory space?

> I fixed that in my driver by properly calling dma_unmap_sg,
> and thus
> using SWIOTLB if necessary.
> But Jmicron driver doesn't unmap its sg.
> (Yet the system with Jmicron device has just one GB, so
> this isn't the
> problem I am seeing).
> 



      

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-21 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-20  0:15 [PATCH] My work on MemoryStick system Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-20  0:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] memstick: add few common helpers Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-20  0:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] MEMSTICK: Add driver for Ricoh R5C592 Card reader Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-20  0:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] memstick: add support for Legacy memorysticks Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-21  1:08 ` [PATCH] My work on MemoryStick system Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-21 13:50   ` Alex Dubov [this message]
2010-08-21 14:56     ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-08-23  6:35       ` Alex Dubov

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