[PATCH RFC 07/31] mmc: sdhci: push card_tasklet into threaded irq handler

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:43:19AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Adding ST people as well who have access to boards and are working on SPEAr.
> 
> On 18 February 2014 23:27, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > 1) You're controlling the card power GPIO via the insertion/removal
> >    interrupt handler?  What's wrong with using a vmmc regulator for
> >    that, which will be controlled via the MMC subsystem as required?
> 
> Haven't explored that earlier.. Maybe its possible but no idea.
> The requirements were like this:
> - We may or maynot need a GPIO for controlling power
> - If we need it, we may need to disable/enable power with card removal/
> insertion Or we may need to keep it enabled for ever..

So how is this any different from any other system which controls power to
the MMC/SD socket?

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