[PATCH] mmci: fixup broken_blockend variant patch v2
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Jan 23 18:09:32 EST 2011
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:40:05PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2011/1/23 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:53:06PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
> > If we're going to move away from the blockend IRQs to using the data
> > counter, can we have a patch which switches the driver to use the data
> > counter and then a followup patch which removes the broken blockend
> > stuff, rather than somethign that changes the broken blockend stuff
> > and then removes it?
>
> 6631/1 fixes the broken blockend stuff into a state that works,
> then 6632/1 removes it in favor of using the MMCIDATACNT.
What I'm saying is why do we need to fix the blockend stuff if in the
next patch we remove it - why not just combine the two patches and
remove the thing in one go as a "we give up using the blockend irq"?
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