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Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: Clamp byte mode transfers for 128x chips

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On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:49 +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
> On wl128x based devices, when TX packets are aggregated, each packet
> size must be aligned to the SDIO block size, and sent using block mode
> transfers.
> 
> The block size is set to 256 bytes, which is less than the maximum
> possible byte transfer. Thus, if two small packets (< 256 bytes) are
> aggregated, the aggregation buffer size would be 512, and will be sent
> using byte mode transfers. This can have undesired side effects.
> 
> Fix this by setting the MMC_QUIRK_BLKSZ_FOR_BYTE_MODE mmc card quirk.
> For 127x chips this has no effect, as the block size is set to 512
> bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks! Applied and fixed Arik's email address, which was corrupted (or
rather Ido-ized :P)

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.

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