Re: [PATCH v4 0/4]implement eMMC4.4 standard HW reset feature

From: Kyungmin Park
Date: Mon Dec 06 2010 - 20:34:32 EST


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Dong, Chuanxiao
<chuanxiao.dong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
> How about these patches? It implemented HW reset feature. When card occurred a timeout error during reading/writing/erasing, these patches will allow driver to reset eMMC card by trigger a HW reset signal.
> Does anyone have any comments about the implementation of these patches? Wolfram and Arnd already pointed out the unsuitable patch headers. Thanks! :)

Hi,
I'm not yet find a reason to use this feature. Now it uses the samsung
and sandisk v4.41 but still no problem.
I wonder what's the purpose and effect if it uses or not?

Thank you,
Kyungmin Park

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-mmc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:linux-mmc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chuanxiao Dong
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 8:49 PM
>> To: linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> Subject: [PATCH v4 0/4]implement eMMC4.4 standard HW reset feature
>>
>> Hi,
>>       These are the version 4 patches to implement eMMC4.4 HW reset
>>       feature. Host controller can use this feature by trigger RST_n signal.
>>       To enable this, byte 162 of EXT_CSD register should be set.
>>       HW reset is implemented in mmc core layer and sdhci host layer, and it
>>       will be used after each reading/writing/erasing timeout error occures.
>>
>>       change-log:
>>       This version change the way to detect timeout error conditions. Added a
>>       new routine mmc_handle_timeout_error to do this instead to do this in
>>       mmc_wait_for_req. Each timeout read/write/erase command can use this
>>       routine to do HW reset.
>>
>>       patch1: enable HW reset capability if card support.
>>
>>       patch2: add two new callback to implement HW reset in mmc core layer. In
>>       this patch, routine mmc_handle_timeout_error was added.
>>
>>       patch3: implement hardware_reset callback for sdhci host. A new callback
>>       reset_emmc was defined which will be each sdhci host controller to
>>       implement separately.
>>
>>       patch4: did a HW reset after each read/write/erase command.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chuanxiao
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