Re: Purpose of MMC_DATA_MULTI?

[Russell King]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 07:40:26AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> I noticed that a new transfer flag was recently added to the MMC layer
> without any immediate users, the MMC_DATA_MULTI flag. I'm guessing the
> purpose of the flag is to indicate the difference between
> MMC_READ_SINGLE_BLOCK and MMC_READ_MULTIPLE_BLOCKS with just one block.
> If so, then that should probably be mentioned in a comment somewhere.

There are hosts out there (Atmel AT91-based) which need to know if the
transfer is going to be multiple block.  Rather than have them test
the op-code (which is what they're already doing), we provide a flag
instead.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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