[GIT PULL 1/2] SOCFPGA updates for 3.18

Pavel Machek pavel at denx.de
Tue Sep 9 14:02:32 PDT 2014


On Tue 2014-09-09 17:02:34, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2014 16:17:56 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Jaehoon Chung (1):
> > >       ARM: dts: socfpga: unuse the slot-node and deprecate the supports-highspeed for dw-mmc
> > > 
> > 
> > This patch is a bad idea. It removes support for two mmc cards on a
> > single controller -- configuration hardware supports and configuration
> > that allows using u-SD card on mcvevk board.
> > 
> 
> Your objection comes too late, and to the wrong patch, since the
> driver and all other users have already been changed. We had a long
> discussion about this when the issue first came up, and we could
> not find any example of dw-mmc actually being used in a scenario
> with one controller that has multiple devices attached.

Well, this is not first time I raised this. 3.17 is not yet out, so we
still have chance to fix regressions without major fuss.

> Apparently every user out there instead uses multiple controller
> instances instead. Are you sure that the socfpga implementation
> is an exception from this?

Marek Vasut has the hardware. His board apprently has uSD and eMMC,
and I believe it has just one controller. I'll try to get details.

									Pavel
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