Re: [PATCH] Fixes and enhancements for the MMC SPI driver - revised

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Sat Feb 21 2009 - 09:16:44 EST


On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:53:57 +0100
Wolfgang MÃes <wolfgang.mues@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hmmm. Inside the core, this timeout value will be calculated as:
>
> timeout = 250ms;
> if (driver == SPI)
> timeout = 1s;
>
> I agree that it is confusing to have the timeout value set on two places.
> Do you prefer to have it set in the mmc core, different for SPI and non-SPI?
>

Yes please. With a comment though.

> > > - if (host->mmc->use_spi_crc) {
> > > + /*
> > > + * Omit the CRC check for CID and CSD reads. There are some SDHC
>
> > Hmmm... I think this also better handled in the core. Reorder things in
> > the init to not turn CRC checks on until after those registers have
> > been read.
>
> No! CRC checks are ONLY disabled for CID and CSD reads, NOT for the reading of
> data blocks. And I don't want to set use_spi_scc == 0 because I don't want to
> disable the safety of CRC for data blocks.
>

I said reorder, not remove. :)

I.e. move the call to mmc_spi_set_crc() to after the CID and CSD have
been read. Again with a comment explaining the issue.

Rgds
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