[PATCH 3/3] MMC: sdhci-dove: allow GPIOs to be used for card detection on Dove

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Tue Dec 4 11:06:39 EST 2012


Hi Guennadi,

On Tue, Dec 04 2012, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>> They both sound pretty attractive.  Maybe we start out with (1), which
>> would create a patch we could more reasonably send to stable@ to get
>> slot-gpio handling the reset during transfers properly in older kernels,
>> and then refactor into (2) later?
>
> Just posted 3 patches for this, have a look if that's what you were 
> thinking about. Not sure though why this is needed for stable, but I'm 
> probably just missing some crucial information on the topic.

Thanks!  I'll take a look.  I agree that this isn't definitely needed
in -stable, but I'm glad we have the option if someone finds that their
host isn't functioning after card removal during a transfer.

Russell, are you happy with switching sdhci-dove over to slot-gpio with
this patchset?

Thanks,

- Chris.
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