Re: Support for TI FlashMedia (pci id 104c:8033, 104c:803b) flash card readers

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:15:52 +0200
Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> wrote:

> Andrew, the stuff meant for you is at the bottom.

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> Alex Dubov wrote:
> > Hi there.
> > I've made a couple of fixes to my flashmedia driver
> > (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx/) to the
> > effect of much improved R/W speed in PIO mode and
> > writing speed in DMA mode.
> >   
> 
> The users will be pleased :)
> 
> > I also tried to clean-up reverse engineering mess out
> > of the code - it should be more readable now.
> >   
> 
> Wonderful. Things are looking a lot better. I have a few questions though.
> 
> The constants you've borrowed from OMAP, have you confirmed all of them?
> If not, you should add a comment to those that are pure speculation so far.
> 
> tifm_sd_op_flags() still use literals. Could you fix up some defines
> there as well?
> 
> tifm_sd_fetch_resp() could be redone as a for loop to make it more
> obvious what's going on. Also, please don't put several statements on
> one line.
> 
> You should probably rename tifm_sd_set_data_to(). It isn't obvious that
> 'to' stands for 'timeout'. Same thing with other instances of 'to'.
> 
> We're also in the process of fixing this dreadfully slow write mess.
> What I'd like to see from you is to double check that bytes_xfered is
> set to the number of bytes successfully sent to the _card_, not the
> controller. This is critical for correct handling of bus errors.
> 
> > Next on my list is MemoryStick functionality.
> >
> >   
> 
> I would suggest finishing this and getting it merged to be your top
> priority. There are quite a few people who would like to have this
> hardware supported. Which brings me to...
> 
> Andrew, we could use some help with how this driver should fit into the
> kernel tree. The hardware is multi-function, so there will be a couple
> of drivers, one for every function, and a common part. How has this been
> organised in the past?
> 

Greg would be a far better person that I for this.   Is it a PCI device?

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