From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@google.com>, James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
        "linux-mmc\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
        Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>,
        Seungwon Jeon <tgih.jun@samsung.com>,
        Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>,
        Abhilash Kesavan <a.kesavan@samsung.com>,
        Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
        linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
        Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
        Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: dw_mmc: Does anyone use multiple slots?
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:55:44 +0100
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	(Olof Johansson's message of "Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:19:44 -0700")
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Hi,

On Fri, Aug 09 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders@google.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess my overall question is: if there are no actual implementations
>> of multislot, shouldn't we kill it and simplify the code a whole lot?
>> If someone out there has a real multislot device they can step back in
>> and do it more correctly?
>>
>> Of course we need to find someone to actually go through and do the
>> killing of multislot, but finding that person might be easier if there
>> was some agreement that it was good to do.
>
> There clearly seems to be no in-tree users of multislot. If someone
> new comes in, we have the code in the history and can revert the
> removal (or at least use it as reference for re-introduction).
>
> I vote for removing it. It adds really annoying complexity for
> something that nobody uses.

I agree with Olof, for what it's worth.  (The maintainers of the
driver are Jaehoon and Seungwon, though.)

Thanks,

- Chris.
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