[PATCH] mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: improve ESDHC_FLAG_ERR010450

Giulio Benetti giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com
Thu Aug 17 09:44:04 PDT 2023


Hello Ulf,

On 16/08/23 23:36, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 19:14, Giulio Benetti
> <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Ulf, and All,
>>
>> +Cc Andrew Lunn,
>>
>> On 16/08/23 11:52, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 23:49, Giulio Benetti
>>> <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Errata ERR010450 only shows up if voltage is 1.8V, but if the device is
>>>> supplied by 3v3 the errata can be ignored. So let's check for if quirk
>>>> SDHCI_QUIRK2_NO_1_8_V is defined or not before limiting the frequency.
>>>>
>>>> Sponsored by: Tekvox Inc.
>>>
>>> Didn't know we have this kind of tag. Can you point me to the
>>> documentation of it?
>>
>> I've been pointed by Andew Lunn almost the same question here:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/859ff6a9-3ba9-ea2e-7b85-01813c5df0dd@broadcom.com/t/
>>
>> and also asked to update:
>> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
>>
>> I've taken inspiration by this commit:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=73c289bac05919286f8c7e1660fcaf6ec0468363
>>
>> where there is "Sponsored by:" and not "Sponsored-by:" otherwise
>> checkpatch.pl script complains about it.
>>
>> Other commits already have that sort of tag.
> 
> Yes, but that seems silly to me.
> 
> We should not be using tags in this way. First there needs to be an
> agreement of what kind of tags we should allow in the commit messages,
> before we start using them.
> 
>>
>> I could add Sponsored-by tag documentation and in checkpatch.pl script
>> as well as other possible scripts where required as pointed by Andrew.
>>
>> I think this is a good way to give credits to companies that sponsor
>> patches and it could be more interesting for companies in general to
>> pay someone to upstream patches because they have their name on it.
>> Otherwise it's not an everyday task to add a driver from scratch
>> and write in the top comment that is sponsored by some company.
>> Also now there is SPDX so that part would be dropped too.
>>
>> What do you All think about this? Do I go for a RFC patchset to add
>> the Sponsored-by: tag?
> 
> My opinion is just one voice here, so at this point it doesn't really
> matter what I think.
> 
> If *you* think this is a good idea, I encourage you to submit an RFC
> to the kernel docs for this. In this way we can collect the comments
> and see if people think this is a good idea.

Ok, I will go with a RFC soon,

> That said, do you want me to apply $subject patch without the tag or
> would you rather proceed with submitting an RFC first?

It would be great if you can apply the patch without the tag please.

Thank you
Best regards
-- 
Giulio Benetti
CEO&CTO at Benetti Engineering sas



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