Re: [RFC PATCH] mmc: dw_mmc: remove redundant num_slots check

[Shawn Lin]

On 2016/1/22 10:46, Jaehoon Chung wrote:
> Hi, Shawn.
>
> On 01/21/2016 04:52 PM, Shawn Lin wrote:
> > num_slots comes from pdata if existing, otherwise from
> > dw_mci_parse_dt which make it at least one slot. If
> > num_slots is less than 1 for the existing pdata case,
> > current code return -ENODEV. But dw_mci_probe seems to
> > treat this a optional case as it will call SDMMC_GET_SLOT_NUM
> > if no slot assigned.
>
> Well, we need to consider more thing..
> Host can get the number of slot from SDMMC_GET_SLOT_NUM().
> But i think this way also has the problem.
>
> num_slot isn't defined anywhere, and num_slot should be set to value of SDMMC_GET_SLOT_NUM.
> If that value is higher than 1, it should be blocking..(I didn't test all cases..)

Actually, from the code itself, it confused me the way about how we get
num_slot. At leaset, we might should try to cleanup it someway to make
it a little more clear. And just as what you point out, we see some
broblem here.

> Even though this patch is not correct, i could check the problem relevant to num_slot, because of this patch. :)

Nice to here that. I make it a RFC patch since I also not quite sure
about all cases including some corner cases. Let's think it twice.

> my suggestion is if pdata->num_slot is not defined anywhere, just set to 1 by default.
> not take from SDMMC_GET_SLOT_NUM.

yes, SDMMC_GET_SLOT_NUM is the capability of controller, num_slot is
hardware wired number. So, geting it from SDMMC_GET_SLOT_NUM has
problem.

> if (host->pdata->nums_slots < 1 ||
> 	host->pdata->nums_slots > SDMMC_GET_SLOT_NUM())
>
> This is correct condition. num_slots can't be higher than number of supported slots.
> how about?

Seems reasonable.
I guess you want to come up with a new patch dealing with it? :)

> Best Regards,
> Jaehoon Chung
>
> > Signed-off-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> >   drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 6 ------
> >   1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> > index 7128351..a116ec6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c
> > @@ -2949,12 +2949,6 @@ int dw_mci_probe(struct dw_mci *host)
> >   		}
> >   	}
> >
> > -	if (host->pdata->num_slots < 1) {
> > -		dev_err(host->dev,
> > -			"Platform data must supply num_slots.\n");
> > -		return -ENODEV;
> > -	}
> > -
> >   	host->biu_clk = devm_clk_get(host->dev, "biu");
> >   	if (IS_ERR(host->biu_clk)) {
> >   		dev_dbg(host->dev, "biu clock not available\n");


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Best Regards
Shawn Lin