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Message-ID: <20110121080422.GA21763@void.printf.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:04:22 +0000
From:	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>
To:	"Dong, Chuanxiao" <chuanxiao.dong@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1]mmc: implemented eMMC4.4 enhanced area feature

Hi Chuanxiao,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:06:08AM +0800, Dong, Chuanxiao wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-mmc
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> > > +What:
> > 	/sys/devices/.../mmc_host/mmcX/mmcX:XXXX/enhanced_area_offset
> > > +Date:		January 2011
> > > +Contact:	Chuanxiao Dong <chuanxiao.dong@...el.com>
> > > +Description:
> > > +		Enhanced area is a new feature defined in eMMC4.4 standard.eMMC4.4
> > or
> > > +		later card can support such feature. This kind of area can help to
> > > +		improve the card performance. If the feature is enabled, this attribute
> > > +		will indicate the start address of enhanced data area. If not, this
> > > +		attribute will be -EINVAL. Unit Byte. Format decimal.
> > > +
> > > +What:		/sys/devices/.../mmc_host/mmcX/mmcX:XXXX/enhanced_area_size
> > > +Date:		January 2011
> > > +Contact:	Chuanxiao Dong <chuanxiao.dong@...el.com>
> > > +Description:
> > > +		Enhanced area is a new feature defined in eMMC4.4 standard. eMMC4.4
> > or
> > > +		later card can support such feature. This kind of area can help to
> > > +		improve the card performance. If the feature is enabled, this attribute
> > > +		will indicate the size of enhanced data area. If not, this attribute
> > > +		will be -EINVAL. Unit KByte. Format decimal.
> > 
> > This is still wrapped at > 80 columns.
> Sorry for that. I have set the textwidth=80 for vim, not understand why this is still wrapped at >80 columns... I know checkpatch.pl can help us to find the style problem, and is there some other script which can help find the style problem of Document or how can I avoid such errors?

checkpatch.pl will warn about >80 chars, so that should be fine on its own.

> > Oh, and let's mention the units of _offset and _size in the comment in
> > card.h.
>
> Chris, you mean the type of _offset and _size? I think the 64bits number for _offset is enough, also the 32bits number for _size since the units of _size is Kbytes. Any suggestions on that?

Ah, I wasn't clear -- I meant the bytes/kilobytes units, not the data type
sizes.  e.g.:

+   size_t          enhanced_area_size;             /* Units: KB */ 

Thanks,

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