> -----Original Message----- > From: Ohad Ben-Cohen [mailto:ohad@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 6:48 AM > To: Nicolas Pitre > Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Chikkature Rajashekar Madhusudhan; Luciano Coelho; > Andrew Morton; San Mehat; Pandita, Vikram > Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/15] omap: hsmmc: add virtual card detect support > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Note: the wl1271 device does support standard card detection, but > > AFAIK there's a limitation to use that with the specific omap > > controller the device is hardwired to. I will try to get more info > > about that, but probably Madhu can comment on that better. > > > Some correction and additional info: > > The wl1271 device has an issue which makes the standard card detect > mechanism irrelevant: it is always up, even if the power enable gpio > input of the device is down (the power enable input does not supply > the power to the chip, it's just logical digital high/low input upon > which the device reacts). That's why we must use software control for > emulating card detect with that device. > > In addition, as far as I could find out, the card detect mechanism on > the ZOOM is implemented by mechanical means, and thus is not relevant > for hardwired embedded SDIO devices (I'm not even sure card detect is > supported for the 3rd mmc controller). The card detect is supported through T2 GPIO interrupts only for MMC1 and MMC2. Such a mechanism is not present for MMC3 to which the WLAN chip is hardwired. Regards, Madhu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
