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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver to pci quirk.
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:53:24 -0800
Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:58:41 +0200
> Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >From 5c5e6f5ab1a5a09a430f410cab4b160a5e65501c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > >2001
> > From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:37:46 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] Port ricoh_mmc from driver to pci quirk.
> > This is much cleaner and correct solution

This patch actually fixes a bug but the changelog forgot to tell us
this important fact.

> I'm fine with the concept, but when I originally started work on
> Ricoh support, Pierre specifically didn't want a pci quirk.
>
> Pierre wrote:
> > I'd rather we didn't. The current style of quirks are bad enough,
> > making them even more vendor or device specific is a bit more than I'm
> > willing to accept right now (seriously, how hard can it be to follow
> > the damn spec?).

Can the bug be fixed by other means, within ricoh_mmc.c?

It's a bit sad to add a lump of code to everyone's kernel like this -
what percentage of those machines actually have a ricoh mmc controller?



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