Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:50:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
To: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
        Johan Rudholm <johan.rudholm@stericsson.com>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>,
        Konstantin Dorfman <kdorfman@codeaurora.org>,
        linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: core: Add a capability for disabling mmc cards
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On Tue, 14 May 2013, Chris Ball wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 14 2013, Adam Lee wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:38:17PM +0800, Adam Lee wrote:
> >> On some systems we need a way to disable MMC card support in a MMC/SD
> >> card slot due to the legal concern.
> >> 
> >> Add support in the core SD/MMC code to support this.
> >
> > CC more addresses.
> >
> > Yes, this capability seems odd, but linux computer vendors need this to
> > avoid legal problems. Please review, thanks.
> 
> This has already been NACKed by Nicolas:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1359121/
> 
> (At least, I think it has -- your forward doesn't include the patch
> itself.)

I certainly did.  Technical amputations driven by legal stupidities 
don't belong in the mainline kernel.


Nicolas
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