linux-kernel - Re: dw_mmc: Does anyone use multiple slots?

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Message-ID: <86mworfzsf.fsf@void.printf.net>
Date:	Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:55:44 +0100
From:	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	Doug Anderson <dianders@...gle.com>,
	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
	"linux-mmc\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
	Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>,
	Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@...sung.com>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org>,
	Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
	Abhilash Kesavan <a.kesavan@...sung.com>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: dw_mmc: Does anyone use multiple slots?

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 09 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess my overall question is: if there are no actual implementations
>> of multislot, shouldn't we kill it and simplify the code a whole lot?
>> If someone out there has a real multislot device they can step back in
>> and do it more correctly?
>>
>> Of course we need to find someone to actually go through and do the
>> killing of multislot, but finding that person might be easier if there
>> was some agreement that it was good to do.
>
> There clearly seems to be no in-tree users of multislot. If someone
> new comes in, we have the code in the history and can revert the
> removal (or at least use it as reference for re-introduction).
>
> I vote for removing it. It adds really annoying complexity for
> something that nobody uses.

I agree with Olof, for what it's worth.  (The maintainers of the
driver are Jaehoon and Seungwon, though.)

Thanks,

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb@...top.org>   <http://printf.net/>
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