[Maverick] [PATCH] UBUNTU - ARM: Reverting patch that break mmc init

[Amit Kucheria]

On 10 Aug 10, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:00 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > On 08/09/2010 09:58 AM, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> > > Ensure regulator enable
> > 
> > What does TI think about this? Its not been reverted upstream. Is there 
> > a better way to implement the functionality in the original patch?
> > 
> > rtg
> 
> All,
> 
> The patch hasn't been reverted upstream because no one upstream is
> seeing this issue.  Only Ubuntu compiles with all 4 flags enabled.  I
> tried to discuss my findings on #beagle but only received rude comments
> like "ubuntu and their crazy ways".

The #beagle community has a few juveniles in their midst. I strongly suggest
_not_ using them as the first stop for discussions and discussing this on
linux-omap mailing list which is the upstream for the omap kernels.

> I thought about leaving the patch intact and reverting only the
> initialization of "host->power_mode" but decided against it for
> consistency reason.  Fixing only the second part of the patch was my
> preferred choice.
> 
> I am well aware that reverting the patch is not the real solution.  On
> the other hand there is no denying the feature is broken and probably
> would not have been accepted upstream had anyone been running their
> system with the flags enabled.
> 
> I submitted the patch to allow the mobile team to move forward. The
> system doesn't boot if the mmc card doesn't get initialized properly,
> something that blocks them in all their omap3 endeavours.  
> 
> All that being said, I can submit another patch that will only address
> the "power_mode" initialization and leave the pairing of regulator
> enables/disables intact.  I will also get in touch with the implementer
> of the patch and expose the problem to him.


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