Re: [PATCH 3/3] MMC: sdhci-dove: allow GPIOs to be used for card detection on Dove

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Hi, adding Guennadi,

On Fri, Nov 23 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:14:27PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 08:57:26AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> > Does this work with the sdhci stuff?
>> 
>> Honestly, I'm not sure, but I guess it does, since I have seen
>> sdhci-pxav3 driver using the helpers.  Anyway, I'm going to adopt
>> the helpers for sdhci-esdhc-imx driver to find it out.
>
> The thing that worries me is this:
>
> static void sdhci_tasklet_card(unsigned long param)
> {
> ...
>         /* Check host->mrq first in case we are runtime suspended */
>         if (host->mrq &&
>             !(sdhci_readl(host, SDHCI_PRESENT_STATE) & SDHCI_CARD_PRESENT)) {
>                 pr_err("%s: Card removed during transfer!\n",
>                         mmc_hostname(host->mmc));
>                 pr_err("%s: Resetting controller.\n",
>                         mmc_hostname(host->mmc));
>
>                 sdhci_reset(host, SDHCI_RESET_CMD);
>                 sdhci_reset(host, SDHCI_RESET_DATA);
>
>                 host->mrq->cmd->error = -ENOMEDIUM;
>                 tasklet_schedule(&host->finish_tasklet);
>         }
> ...
>         mmc_detect_change(host->mmc, msecs_to_jiffies(200));
> }
>
>
> That gets called whenever a card is inserted/removed by the SDHCI code (if
> the SDHCI card detect is wired), or in my case by the interrupt routine
> the code in my patch adds.
>
> The slot-gpio.c stuff directly calls into mmc_detect_change (a) with a
> shorter delay, and (b) completely omits the above handling and resetting.
> My guess from the above code is that it'll work fine 90% of the time
> (because you'll remove the card without an active request), but the above
> code looks like it's addressing a corner case which will be omitted with
> the "generic" slot-gpio.c solution.
>
> So I don't think it's a good idea to use slot-gpio.c in this case.

Guennadi, what are your thoughts about consolidating this reset logic
between the sdhci tasklet and slot-gpio?  It would certainly be nice to
use slot-gpio in cases like this one, so it's worth fixing.

Thanks,

- Chris.
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