Re: [patch 1/5] Add MMC password protection (lock/unlock) support V3

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Anderson Briglia <anderson.briglia@indt.org.br> [060111 11:26]:
> Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> [060111 06:44]:
> > 
> >>On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:16:28AM -0400, Anderson Briglia wrote:
> >>
> >>>Russell King wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:15:00PM -0400, Anderson Briglia wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>When a card is locked, only commands from the "basic" and "lock card" classes
> >>>>>are accepted. To be able to use the other commands, the card must be unlocked
> >>>>>first.
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I don't think this works as you intend.
> >>>>
> >>>>When a card is initially inserted, we discover the cards via mmc_setup()
> >>>>and mmc_discover_cards().  This means that we'll never set the locked
> >>>>status for newly inserted cards.
> >>>> 
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>mmc_setup() calls mmc_check_cards(). Our patch adds the necessary code
> >>>to mmc_check_cards() to set the locked state when the card is locked.
> >>
> >>Not in Linus' kernel, it doesn't.
> >>
> >>If you're working off the OMAP tree, bear in mind that I've found in
> >>the past that they have a large number of wrong or inappropriate
> >>changes to the MMC layer in there.  They don't regularly merge either,
> >>and they certainly don't forward any bug fixes for review in a timely
> >>manner.
> > 
> > 
> > I agree the omap MMC driver should be cleaned-up and finally merged.
> > 
> > Anderson, since you are already patching it, do you want to take care of
> > cleaning it up a bit and posting it here?
> 
> OK Tony. I'll do it and post here asap.

Cool, thanks!

Tony
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