On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Nicolas Pitre <n...@fluxnic.net> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Olof Johansson wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Philip Rakity <prak...@marvell.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Aug 22, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org> wrote: >> > >> >> Thanks for your feedback. In this case I have a card that is an MMC >> >> card so mmc_attach_sdio() and mmc_attach_sd() will fail. If I let >> >> mmc_attach_mmc() run it will actually find the MMC card. However, on >> >> this platform it is not valid to recognize MMC cards. >> >> >> > >> > >> > Understand. >> > >> > Can you explain why the change is needed. Is it for technical >> > reasons that MMC is not allowed -- if so then I do not understand how SD >> > can work >> > and MMC cannot. >> > >> > If it is for marketing reasons -- then --- oh well ..... >> > >> > >> > Could you add some additional comments to the commit message. >> > I think it makes sense to handle all 3 cases >> > a) SDIO not allowed >> > b) SD not allowed >> > c) MMC not allowed >> >> We are working with a system manufacturer who wishes to only support >> SD cards in their product, and need to accommodate that. It made sense >> for us to contribute this work upstream since others might want to do >> the same in the future for some reason. >> >> Adding all three cases makes sense if others foresee a use case for it. > > Isn't this rather revolting? > > Personally I find such "feature" totally ridiculous. If said > manufacturer doesn't want to support MMC cards, they just have to not > advertise it, period. Or if they really mean it, then they only have to > state it explicitly in their user manual, and repeat it if ever problems > are reported. > > Dumbing down kernel functionality to serve marketing purpose or > technology lock-ins is utterly stupid. Purposely restricting > interoperability might even be ruled illegal in some jurisdictions. > > I therefore insist on providing a vehement NAK on such patches.
Ok, thanks. We'll keep carrying it locally instead then. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
