Re: [PATCH] drivers/mmc/core/core.c: extend limit

[Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:03:28 +0100 (CET)
Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> This did not help me as the limit was already at 300000. However, I 
> decided to raise the limit to 500000. Still no go so I also doubled the 
> read limit from 100000 to 200000. After that the cards work without 
> problem. Changing the write timing back to 300000 brought the problem back 
> so apparently both timings need to be extended. Attached is the patch I 
> used for this. As it is a timeout limit value, it should not harm anyone, 
> and a longer timeout at least allows more cards to be used.
> 

Unfortunately some controllers cannot cope with huge timeouts and will
complain. And such a huge timeout shouldn't be needed (and they weren't
any larger in .27).

> 
> What somewhat troubles me is that this worked in .27, so it might be this 
> patch does not address the root cause. Then again this is the best I can 
> do. If someone has a better solution, I am more than happy to test it.
> 

Indeed. Have you enabled MMC_DEBUG and checked that the controller
actually follows the configured timeouts?

Rgds
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