Re: [RFC] MMC-4.5 Context ID

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On 12 February 2012 02:27, Chris Ball <cjb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 06 2012, Saugata Das wrote:
>> Thanks for the info. Perhaps the initial MMC-4.5 device samples do not
>> implement this command well. Yes, this feature is good to have in the
>> kernel. I shall wait for some more comments on the proposed
>> implementation before submitting the patch.
>
> I'm not very excited about merging features that offer no concrete
> benefit, because it just grows the kernel (and list of places where bugs
> can occur) for no benefit.  So, it would be great if we could find a
> device that actually implements these contexts in a way that provides
> a performance benefit, to prove that adding the code is worthwhile.
>

Completely agree with you. The purpose of proposing this
implementation under [RFC] was to trigger some discussion on how this
feature should be implemented.

> Thanks,
>
> - Chris.
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