MMC runtime PM patches break libertas probe

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Nov 17 09:54:24 EST 2010


On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Mike Rapoport <mike at compulab.co.il> wrote:
> > On our platforms we just keep it powered on after boot with the reset line held
> > high. (e.g. arch/arm/mach-pxa/cm-x300.c, arch/arm/mach-omap/board-cm-t35.c).
> > We don't bother much for power savings, though.
> 
> Thanks, Mike !
> 
> This paves the road for MMC_CAP_POWER_OFF_CARD.
> 
> SDIO core will enable runtime PM for the card only if that cap is set.
> As a result, the card will be powered down after boot, and will only
> be powered up again when a driver is loaded (and then it's up to the
> driver whether power will be kept or not).

Makes sense.


Nicolas



More information about the libertas-dev mailing list