All OMAP platforms: MMC is broken

Ulf Hansson ulf.hansson at linaro.org
Wed Oct 7 06:41:46 PDT 2015


On 7 October 2015 at 15:26, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [151007 05:50]:
>> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:37:11AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [151006 08:04]:
>> > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:44:25AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hmm DT-based boot finds the MMC card for LDP, dmesg below from DT boot [1].
>> > > > Looks like you're on on -rc4 and not -rc3. My guess is that MMC is not
>> > > > working for you with DT-based booting because you don't seem to have
>> > > > CONFIG_REGULATOR_PBIAS in your seed config for. Care to try enabling that
>> > > > for both your omap3 and omap4 seed config files?
>> > >
>> > > This is precisely the kind of crap I'm objecting to.  New kernel versions
>> > > come along, and things break because people add extra Kconfig symbols that
>> > > previous versions did not rely upon - and there's no communication of
>> > > what's required for new kernel versions.
>> > >
>> > > This stuff needs documenting, so that people are aware what changes they
>> > > need to make - please put something in Documentation/arm/OMAP which
>> > > tracks what new additions are required to the Kconfig to keep things
>> > > working.
>> >
>> > Good idea, how about something like the following? AFAIK that's the
>> > only .config option needed as MFD_SYSCON is selected by Kconfig
>> > already.

Similar to MFD_SYSCON, why don't we have REGULATOR_PBIAS to be
selected when omap_hsmmc is being used?

It seems like that should also be a patch for the rc, right!?

>>
>> Right, that resolves the issue.  Now, what's the story on the revert
>> and the other patch - have they already been taken for -rc kernels?

Great!

>
> Not yet, I was waiting for the confirmation from you. I've now posted the
> revert with proper description and the fix so Ulf can pick them up and
> merged as regression fixes for the -rc series:

I am on it!

>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=144422416621373&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=144422416921375&w=2

Russell, may I add your tested by tag for these?

Again, thanks!

Kind regards
Uffe



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