Re: [PATCH] mmc_spi: use EILSEQ for possible transmission errors

[David Brownell]

On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >		 Remember that the
> > firmware in the card can leverage "that's erased" knowledge for
> > things like wear leveling.  SSDs and other storage devices would
> > likewise benefit from such knowledge.  I'm quite certain there's
> > been discussion about adding support for that in the block layer.
> 
> It's already in AFAIK. I even had code for hooking it up to mmc_block.
> But it didn't produce any measurable results so I never merged it.

I'd expect the results would take time to show.  As in, they would
facilitate wear leveling logic, which may be difficult to measure
except by testing various cards to destruction ... even for vendors
that *do* have decent wear leveling.  :)


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