Re: Purpose of MMC_DATA_MULTI?

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 04:57:23 EST


On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:49:51AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> >In short, it's defined to be whatever AT91_MCI_TRTYP_MULTIPLE means in
> >the AT91RM9200 MMC host driver, which appears to be set for any of the
> >multiple block commands. They currently are doing:
>
> That's a bit fuzzy and bound to give problems. Why not settle for the
> first case and change their code to check the block count in the
> request?

Mainly because I don't know if that's sufficient, and until I get around
to finding and reading the AT91RM9200 data sheet, I won't know if it is.
What I do know is that the addition of that flag provides the exact
information which the driver wants.

> >and using that as a lookup table by command for the value to put into
> >the command register. I want to eliminate that, and not passing the
> >MULTI flag prevents elimination of this table.
>
> Seems to be a common theme in the more recent drivers. Don't they teach
> people proper layering in the schools anymore? :)

>From the evidence to date, it would appear not.

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