Re: [PATCH] drivers/mmc/core/core.c: extend limit

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Sun Apr 05 2009 - 14:57:41 EST


On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:03:28 +0100 (CET)
Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> This did not help me as the limit was already at 300000. However, I
> decided to raise the limit to 500000. Still no go so I also doubled the
> read limit from 100000 to 200000. After that the cards work without
> problem. Changing the write timing back to 300000 brought the problem back
> so apparently both timings need to be extended. Attached is the patch I
> used for this. As it is a timeout limit value, it should not harm anyone,
> and a longer timeout at least allows more cards to be used.
>

Unfortunately some controllers cannot cope with huge timeouts and will
complain. And such a huge timeout shouldn't be needed (and they weren't
any larger in .27).

>
> What somewhat troubles me is that this worked in .27, so it might be this
> patch does not address the root cause. Then again this is the best I can
> do. If someone has a better solution, I am more than happy to test it.
>

Indeed. Have you enabled MMC_DEBUG and checked that the controller
actually follows the configured timeouts?

Rgds
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