Re: [PATCH] ricoh_mmc: Handle newer models of Ricoh controllers

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 06:42:20AM -0800, Philip Langdale wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> >>The latest generation of laptops are shipping with a newer
> >>model of Ricoh chip where the firewire controller is the
> >>primary PCI function but a cardbus controller is also present.
> >
> >Note that the current separate ricoh_mmc disabling module approach has 
> >been shown to break during suspend/resume. Matthew Garret proposed a 
> >patch for that which (with minor fixups) I tested successfully.
> 
> Hmm. Well, I'm interested as to what Pierre thinks. He explicitly didn't
> want a quirk when we originally looked at the problem and that's why
> ricoh_mmc exists - but maybe this is a good enough reason to revisit that
> decision.

Thinking about it, it could possibly be handled by changing to 
suspend_noirq and resume_noirq rather than the normal suspend and resume 
functions? That ought to get the ordering constraints right. The problem 
occurs when ricoh_mmc suspends before sdhci and resumes after it.

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