Re: ld at sdmmc

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Rafal Boni wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 05:31:12AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> > Wonderful news.  And I'm sure Jeremy Reed will be happy, too, especially
> > if it works on his amd64 machine.
> >
> > I'll compare Kiyohara-san's version against my own and hopefully learn
> > why my attempt to do this didn't work!
>
> Note that (IIRC) nonaka-san's original patches have some rather poor locking
> and can be fairly easily pushed into bad states -- the locks I think were at
> too high of a level, forcing recursive lock acquisition and a mess releasing
> those locks when failures happen (this is all from memory, it's been a while
> since I looked at the SDMMC code).

Yeah, that's what I suspected.  My attempts to replace the scsipi layer 
with ld ran into some "interesting" locking issues.

I haven't paid much attention to it lately, having been occupied with 
the day job and the dBCool sensor driver.  If folks are still interested 
in getting sdmmc to work, I'll try to get back to it after my vacation.

> Maybe this gets better emulating an ld(4) vs. a SCSI device, but I recall
> a lot of the problems were in the backend not the disk-emulation layer(s).
>
> I spent a little bit of time trying to untangle this before I realized
> that my iPAQ didn't use the PXA built-in SD/MMC controller, but instead
> needed a totally new driver for the controller in the HTC ASIC(s); I
> punted at that point.
>
> --rafal
>
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