Re: dw_mmc: Does anyone use multiple slots?

From: Chris Ball
Date: Thu Aug 08 2013 - 20:56:08 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Aug 09 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I guess my overall question is: if there are no actual implementations
>> of multislot, shouldn't we kill it and simplify the code a whole lot?
>> If someone out there has a real multislot device they can step back in
>> and do it more correctly?
>>
>> Of course we need to find someone to actually go through and do the
>> killing of multislot, but finding that person might be easier if there
>> was some agreement that it was good to do.
>
> There clearly seems to be no in-tree users of multislot. If someone
> new comes in, we have the code in the history and can revert the
> removal (or at least use it as reference for re-introduction).
>
> I vote for removing it. It adds really annoying complexity for
> something that nobody uses.

I agree with Olof, for what it's worth. (The maintainers of the
driver are Jaehoon and Seungwon, though.)

Thanks,

- Chris.
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