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Message-ID: <497D7F74.6050409@nokia.com>
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?
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