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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mmc_spi: use EILSEQ for possible transmission errors
On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:02:51 -0700
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > Remember that the
> > > firmware in the card can leverage "that's erased" knowledge for
> > > things like wear leveling.  SSDs and other storage devices would
> > > likewise benefit from such knowledge.  I'm quite certain there's
> > > been discussion about adding support for that in the block layer.
> >
> > It's already in AFAIK. I even had code for hooking it up to mmc_block.
> > But it didn't produce any measurable results so I never merged it.
>
> I'd expect the results would take time to show. As in, they would
> facilitate wear leveling logic, which may be difficult to measure
> except by testing various cards to destruction ... even for vendors
> that *do* have decent wear leveling. :)
>

Who are these mythical decent vendors you speak of? ;)

Seriously though, the modifications to mmc_block can still be found
here if anyone wants to play with it:

http://git.infradead.org/users/drzeus/discard-2.6.git

I haven't checked if it still applies to the current version of the
kernel though, so you're on your own. ;)

Rgds
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