Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:10:34 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MMC] Multi sector write transfers
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Russell is moving away from mmc maintainership so we'll need to do
something different here.

The patches look good to my untrained eye, except...

On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:42:57 +0200
Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> wrote:

> SD cards extend the protocol by allowing the host to query a card how many
> blocks were successfully stored on the medium. This allows us to safely write
> chunks of blocks at once.

I recall Russell nacked multisector mmc-writing when it came up six or
twelve months ago.  I don't recall the exact details - lack of trust in
manufacturers supporting it correctly?

Is that concern relevant to this patch?
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