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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] mmc: change .get_ro() callback semantics
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:07:49PM +0200, Marc Pignat wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> On Friday 23 May 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > get_ro() callback must return values >= 0 for its logical state, and
> ...
> > static void pxamci_set_ios(struct mmc_host *mmc, struct mmc_ios *ios)
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mmc/host.h b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
> > index f2e9885..ef3b773 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mmc/host.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mmc/host.h
> > @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ struct mmc_host_ops {
> > * Avoid calling these three functions too often or in a "fast path",
> > * since underlaying controller might implement them in an expensive
> > * and/or slow way.
> > + *
> > + * .get_ro and .get_cd should return >= 0 for their logical values,
> > + * or negative errno value in case of error.
> > */
>
> I would suggest to use something more strict (bulletproof), something like:
>
> /*
> * get_ro will return:
> * 0 for a read/write card
> * 1 for a read-only card

This isn't always practical. For example, host is using u8 register for
the status, so it might safely return u8 & mask, that will always fit
into int. Or very smart/adventurous authors might be aware that, for the
particular host, mask's bit isn't last, and safely do uXX & mask. :-)

The above is weak argument of course, since it is about optimization.

As an counter-evidence, the strict scheme that you described probably
less error prone. But is it? To implement it we'll need something like
WARN_ON(ret > 0 && ret != 1) to catch erroneous users. Take a closer
look though, will it catch uXX & lastbit case? Nope. :-)

We can catch bogus users though... via hack (_assuming_ that there
are no errno values of 1 << (sizeof(int) * 8 - 1)), i.e.
WARN_ON(ret == (1 << (sizeof(int) * 8 - 1)). Though, to do so, we don't
need the strict scheme, this debugging hack will work in the current
scheme too.

--
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
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