From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030610AbWJCWUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:20:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030612AbWJCWUO (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:20:14 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:35815 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030611AbWJCWUL (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:20:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:10:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Pierre Ossman Cc: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, Pierre Ossman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MMC] Multi sector write transfers Message-Id: <20061003151034.a7894df8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061001124257.17012.78166.stgit@poseidon.drzeus.cx> References: <20061001124257.17012.78166.stgit@poseidon.drzeus.cx> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Russell is moving away from mmc maintainership so we'll need to do something different here. The patches look good to my untrained eye, except... On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:42:57 +0200 Pierre Ossman wrote: > SD cards extend the protocol by allowing the host to query a card how many > blocks were successfully stored on the medium. This allows us to safely write > chunks of blocks at once. I recall Russell nacked multisector mmc-writing when it came up six or twelve months ago. I don't recall the exact details - lack of trust in manufacturers supporting it correctly? Is that concern relevant to this patch?