Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mmc: Add mmc_force_detect_change_begin / _end functions | From | Frieder Schrempf <> | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 11:53:21 +0200 |
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Hi,
On 27.09.2018 10:14, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:19:22PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> On 26-09-18 16:44, Frieder Schrempf wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 03:01:00PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>>>> I'd like to know if any progress has been made on that problem >>> (I may >>>>>>> have missed patches). >>>>>>> Had you had the time to look at the issue? >>>>>> >>>>>> I have looked at the issue, but not manage to cook some patches >>> for it. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, it's on my top of my TODO list for mmc. No promises, but >>>>>> perhaps and hopefully I manage to get something posted during the >>>>>> coming release cycle. >>> >>> I would be interested in a ESP8089 driver in mainline and that's why I want to pick up this discussion. >>> >>> What is the current status of the "mmc_reprobe_device" implementation, that Hans was explaining and Ulf wanted to provide some months ago? >> >> Ulf did eventually write a new way to deal with this and then Quentin >> did manage to get the esp8089 driver to work with it, the new function >> to use for this is added by this commit: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/mmc/core?id=1433269c4d2461be1f36db5dbb453976b38996ff >> >> I'm not sure what the status of upstreaming the ep8089 driver is now >> that we've this in place. >> >> Quentin, do you have a version of the esp8089 driver somewhere >> which will work correctly with the new mmc_sw_reset() function? >> >> Also what is the status of adding this driver to say staging? > > IIRC, we tried to get it into staging, and we got told that it was too > nice for staging at this point. So we're basically stuck somewhere > between staging and !staging, with the driver being too nice for the > former, and not nice enough for the latter :)
Ok, and is there someone willing to continue upstreaming the driver? Maybe someone can rebase and resend the latest approach?
After all it looks like a lot of work has already been done.
Thanks, Frieder
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