[linux-pm] Bugs in MMC [was: [Bug 10030] Suspend doesn't work when SD card is inserted]

Pierre Ossman drzeus-mmc at drzeus.cx
Mon Mar 3 22:03:57 PST 2008


On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:59:37 -0800
David Brownell <david-b at pacbell.net> wrote:

> 
> Card insert/remove events can be system wake events though.  Which
> makes that restriction impractical.
> 
> I think hosts need to be able to call mmc_detect_change() as soon as
> they see a stable signal.  The MMC core can hold off handling that
> for a while, if it needs to wait until the code walking the device
> tree gets around to resuming that host.  It's a lot more natural to
> hold off such stuff one time there than in N host drivers; especially
> since the MMC core already has such hold-off code.
> 

That actually sorts itself out as the MMC core reprobes on wakeup, but I see your point. Right now things will work peachy if the controllers just make sure to disable their card detection logic before telling the core to suspend.

Rgds
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