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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Introduce new caps to improve the card's init sequence
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在 2016/6/22 20:37, Ulf Hansson 写道:
> On 8 June 2016 at 10:19, Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This patchset is gonna improve the card's init sequence
>> by exposing some caps to DT.
>>
>> The basic idea is to skip sending specific init cmd inspired
>> by Carlo Caione's commit[0].
>>
>> To make it possible, I firstly expose Carlo's MMC_CAP2_NO_SDIO
>> to DT and extend two new caps for similar usage of sd and mmc.
>> We probably need it because for most of the boards, each of the
>> slots should have a specific function when designed. It's impossible
>> for one slot which can either to be used as eMMC or a SD card for a
>> given board. The same for SDIO case.
>>
>> We could have two ways to improve it
>> A) Skip sending specific commands if knowing we don't support
>> the specific card type.
>> B) Allow sending specific commands if knowing we do support
>> the specific card type.
>>
>> A) and B) shouldn't have difference, but I take A) as the final
>> one as it looks more consistent with Carlo's way, which does not
>> seem to break anything as possible.
>>
>> The only roadblock for this patchset to be landed should be the
>> improvement we gain from it. Theoretically sdio-card doesn't get
>> improvment as it's already in the first place to be attached.
>> But considering the sd and (e)MMC case, we should gain more benifit
>> from it.
>>
>> From the test, we can save nearly 2ms for attaching emmc against the
>> original 8ms. And we gain more than 30us improvement for sd card for
>> each insert.
>>
>> [0]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mmc/34774
>>
>>
>>
>> Shawn Lin (4):
>> Documentation: mmc: add description for new caps
>> mmc: core: expose MMC_CAP2_NO_SDIO to dt-binding
>> mmc: core: add cap-no-sd and cap-no-mmc properties
>> mmc: core: improve initialization flow
>>
>
> I would prefer that you restructure this series a bit.

I will do it and I think Doug was asking we to drop the "cap-"
prefix which I think need to be clarified before sending
non-RFC one. :)

>
> Start by adding each new MMC_CAP2* separately and without involving
> the DT parsing.
>
> Make the DT documentation patch come after the above, and add a new
> separate patch which exposes the caps to device tree.
>
> In that way, I can pick up the non DT parts and wait for Rob's
> ack/nack of the DT bindings.
>
> Kind regards
> Uffe
>
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc.txt | 3 +++
>> drivers/mmc/core/core.c | 10 +++++-----
>> drivers/mmc/core/host.c | 6 ++++++
>> include/linux/mmc/host.h | 2 ++
>> 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
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>> 2.3.7
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>


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Best Regards
Shawn Lin

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