Re: [PATCH 0/5] mmc: sdio: Enable SW reset of SDIO cards

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Hi Ulf
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:41:10AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
> 
> On 05-04-18 22:19, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > It's rather common that SDIO func devices becomes loaded with a new firmware as
> > a part of the SDIO func driver being probed. However, in some special scenarios
> > the SDIO func device needs a SW reset, as to start running the new firmware.
> > 
> > More importantly, a full power cycle doesn't work, as that would reset also the
> > firmware, thus the existing mmc_hw_reset() API can't be used to deal with these
> > scenarios.
> > 
> > Therefore this series suggest to add a new API, mmc_sw_reset(), which resets
> > and re-initialize the SDIO card. A couple of the patches in the series are
> > mostly re-factorings making generic improvements to the related code.
> > 
> > For more background to this series, feel free to digest the discussions from
> > the submitted patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9857175/
> > 
> > It should be noted, at this point this series has only be compile tested. Help
> > with tests and deployment of using the new API is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you for this series, I've taken a quick look and it looks good,
> but the proof is in the pudding. Quentin can you test this on an ARM
> board with an ESP8089 sometime the coming week?
> 

Indeed, thank you for this series, it's highly appreciated.

It's on my TODO list. If you haven't heard of me by Tuesday next week,
please ping me.

Thanks,
Quentin

> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Ulf Hansson
> > 
> > Ulf Hansson (5):
> >    mmc: core: Re-factor some code for SDIO re-initialization
> >    mmc: core: Rename ->reset() bus ops to ->hw_reset()
> >    mmc: core: Export a function mmc_sw_reset() to allow soft reset of
> >      cards
> >    mmc: core: Share internal function to set initial signal voltage
> >    mmc: core: Implement ->sw_reset bus ops for SDIO
> > 
> >   drivers/mmc/core/core.c  | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >   drivers/mmc/core/core.h  |  4 +++-
> >   drivers/mmc/core/mmc.c   |  4 ++--
> >   drivers/mmc/core/sd.c    |  4 ++--
> >   drivers/mmc/core/sdio.c  | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> >   include/linux/mmc/core.h |  1 +
> >   6 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> > 

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