[PATCH 05/15] omap: hsmmc: add virtual card detect support

Roger Quadros roger.quadros at nokia.com
Tue Jul 6 08:39:06 EDT 2010


Hi,

On 07/06/2010 02:48 PM, ext Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Ohad Ben-Cohen<ohad at wizery.com>  wrote:
>> Note: the wl1271 device does support standard card detection, but
>> AFAIK there's a limitation to use that with the specific omap
>> controller the device is hardwired to. I will try to get more info
>> about that, but probably Madhu can comment on that better.
>
>
> Some correction and additional info:
>
> The wl1271 device has an issue which makes the standard card detect
> mechanism irrelevant: it is always up, even if the power enable gpio
> input of the device is down (the power enable input does not supply
> the power to the chip, it's just logical digital high/low input upon
> which the device reacts).  That's why we must use software control for
> emulating card detect with that device.

Just to clarify, is the wl1271 device always powered on the board?

And this GPIO power enable (OMAP_ZOOM_WLAN_PMENA_GPIO) is used to gate this 
supply internally?

and what do these do ?

set_bit(WL1271_FLAG_GPIO_POWER, &wl->flags);

clear_bit(WL1271_FLAG_GPIO_POWER, &wl->flags);

regards,
-roger



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