[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: board: cm-fx6: fix mmc for old revisions of utilite

Nikita Kiryanov nikita at compulab.co.il
Thu Jun 16 12:40:47 CEST 2016


Hi Christopher,

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 05:38:10PM +0200, Christopher Spinrath wrote:
> Hi Nikita,
> 
> On 06/15/2016 05:15 PM, Nikita Kiryanov wrote:
> > Hi CHristopher,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 09:02:36PM +0200, Christopher Spinrath wrote:
> >> Old revisions of Utilite (based on cmfx6) do not have a dedicated
> >> card detect pin. But the card is removable by the user and card
> >> detection can be realized with polling (e.g. supported by Linux).
> >>
> >> Add the broken-cd property to the mmc device tree instead of the
> >> non-removable property to make card detection possible if polling
> >> is supported.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Nikita Kiryanov <nikita at compulab.co.il>
> 
> How is this patch (and, in general, patches for Utilite/cm-fx6) supposed
> to be merged? Due to get_maintainers your are (the only) maintainer
> related to the cm-fx6 board. Do you want me to resend the patch (without
> the Fixes: tag)?
> 
> > One nit-pick below:
> > 
> >>
> >> Fixes: 41855186afd3 ("arm: mx6: cm-fx6: modify device tree for old revisions of utilite")
> > 
> > This isn't technically a fix; you're enabling new functionality. The
> > original behavior wasn't buggy, it just lacked the card detect feature.
> >
> Well, the card is clearly removable. So IMHO adding the non-removable
> property is wrong and this patch corrects/fixes it. But I'm fine either way.

I prefer it without the "Fixes" line, because to me it implies a bug fix
whereas the behavior in the linked patch was an intentional compromise.

Regards,
Nikita Kiryanov 


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