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Re: sdmmc driver



On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:56:06PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> Tobias Nygren wrote:
> >On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:48:16 -0400
> >"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >>It looks like we've been sitting on an sdmmc driver since Aug 2007. I 
> >>think we should commit it -- any objections?
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Jared
> >
> >There were objections to how it attaches -- iirc some wanted it to
> >use ld(4) instead of sd(4). I personally think a driver that abuses
> >sd(4) is better than no driver at all, and would be happy to see it
> >imported.
> 
> Agreed, I would like to keep the current solution until somebody comes 
> up with a better driver :-)

I'd prefer that we don't go down that route. Converting it to use ld would
be a case of ripping out the SCSI emulation stuff and putting in a few
shims. Frontends for the ld driver are simple. If someone sends me the diff
I'll do it!

Andrew


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