Through our own testing it hasn't worked on any of the regular Linux
releases (both Deb and RPM varieties, and I think someone tested Arch
or Slackware as well) after 2.6.32 .
On 26/02/2020, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:03:32PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 17:56, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:02:50PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> > > [+cc Ulf, Philip, Pierre, Maxim, linux-mmc; see [1] for beginning of
>> > > thread, [2] for problem report and the patch Michael tested]
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 07:58:27PM +1100, Michael . wrote:
>> > > > Bjorn and Dominik.
>> > > > I am happy to let you know the patch did the trick, it compiled
>> > > > well
>> > > > on 5.4-rc4 and my friends in the CC list have tested the modified
>> > > > kernel and confirmed that both slots are now working as they
>> > > > should.
>> > > > As a group of dedicated Toughbook users and Linux users please
>> > > > accept
>> > > > our thanks your efforts and assistance is greatly appreciated.
>> > > >
>> > > > Now that we know this patch works what kernel do you think it will
>> > > > be
>> > > > released in? Will it make 5.4 or will it be put into 5.5
>> > > > development
>> > > > for further testing?
>> > >
>> > > That patch was not intended to be a fix; it was just to test my guess
>> > > that the quirk might be related.
>> > >
>> > > Removing the quirk solved the problem *you're* seeing, but the quirk
>> > > was added in the first place to solve some other problem, and if we
>> > > simply remove the quirk, we may reintroduce the original problem.
>> > >
>> > > So we have to look at the history and figure out some way to solve
>> > > both problems. I cc'd some people who might have insight. Here are
>> > > some commits that look relevant:
>> > >
>> > > 5ae70296c85f ("mmc: Disabler for Ricoh MMC controller")
>> > > 03cd8f7ebe0c ("ricoh_mmc: port from driver to pci quirk")
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > [1]
>> > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAFjuqNi+knSb9WVQOahCVFyxsiqoGgwoM7Z1aqDBebNzp_-jYw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>> > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191021160952.GA229204@xxxxxxxxxx/
>> >
>> > I guess this problem is still unfixed? I hate the fact that we broke
>> > something that used to work.
>> >
>> > Maybe we need some sort of DMI check in ricoh_mmc_fixup_rl5c476() so
>> > we skip it for Toughbooks? Or maybe we limit the quirk to the
>> > machines where it was originally needed?
>>
>> Both options seems reasonable to me. Do you have time to put together a
>> patch?
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Uffe
>
> The quirk is controlled by MMC_RICOH_MMC configuration option. At least
> as a short-term fix a bit better than patching the kernel, building one
> with that config option disabled should have the same effect.
>
> From the commit messages, the quirk was required to support MMC (as
> opposed to SD) cards in the SD slot. I would assume this will be an
> issue with the chip in any machine as the commit indicates that the
> hardware in the chip detects MMC cards and doesn't expose them through
> the SDHCI function.
>
> It looks like the quirk was only enabled by default in 2015, at least
> upstream [1], though in Debian it was enabled in May 2010 going by their
> git repo, maybe in 2.6.32-16.
>
> [1] commit ba2f73250e4a ("mmc: Enable Ricoh MMC quirk by default")
>
