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

Christopher Spinrath christopher.spinrath at rwth-aachen.de
Thu Jun 16 13:22:51 CEST 2016


Hi Nikita,

On 06/16/2016 12:40 PM, Nikita Kiryanov wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, I will send a v2 without the fixes tag and with your Acked-By.

Thanks,
Christopher

> Regards,
> Nikita Kiryanov 
> 


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