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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:16:36 +0200 From: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com> To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@...eus.cx> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MMC: Add Extended CSD as a device attribute Pierre Ossman wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:41:50 +0200 > Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com> wrote: > >> From: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com> >> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:45:53 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] MMC: Add Extended CSD as a device attribute >> >> Extended CSD is a MMC card register. The Card Identification >> (CID) register and the Card-Specific Data (CSD) register are >> already device attributes. As increasingly interesting >> fields are being added to Extended CSD, it seems reasonable to >> add it too. Note that SD cards do not have an Extended CSD >> register, so it is MMC only. >> >> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com> >> --- > > Well, this might be interesting for debugging, but I don't see anything > of general interest for user space in there. What's your use case? Yes it is mainly just debugging. It was done as a device attribute for consistency with the other card registers CID and CSD. Would you prefer #ifdef CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG or debugfs? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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