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From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [FIXME] Comments on serial and MMC changes in MIPS merge
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:00:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4364A7D6.2060006@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051029220722.GI14039@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King wrote:
> Some comments on the recent MIPS merge:
> 
> 1. au1xxx mmc driver
> 
>    mmc_remove_host() does a safe shutdown of the MMC host, removing
>    cards and then powering down.  This must be called prior to the
>    driver thinking of tearing anything down.
> 
>    As for those disable_irq()...enable_irq(), are you aware that MMC
>    can start talking to the host as soon as you've called mmc_add_host() ?
> 

I'm also concerned about the ammount of protocol awareness in this
driver. Is there a spec available for this hardware? Perhaps the MMC
layer can export more information so that we can avoid switches on
specific MMC commands?

Rgds
Pierre

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-29 22:07 [FIXME] Comments on serial and MMC changes in MIPS merge Russell King
2005-10-30 11:00 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2005-10-31 11:59   ` Ralf Baechle

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