Re: [FIXME] Comments on serial and MMC changes in MIPS merge

From: Ralf Baechle
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 07:01:21 EST


On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:00:38PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:

> > 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?

Cc'ed to ppopov, the actual author.

Ralf
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