[PATCH] add mmc_host slot_name support

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Fri Oct 24 01:46:30 PDT 2008


On Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 23:18 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Some OMAP boards support multiple MMC slots, and on current Linux a
> > sysfs file might be exposed with this information.
> >
> > Add a new slot_name key to mmc_host to identify the slot position, the
> > value can be something like 'external'/'internal', or any other unique
> > identifier that distinguishes its location from the other possible
> > mmc_host present in the Computer.
>
> Are these values standardized anywhere int he kernel?  If not, then
> perhaps they should be, or standardized in the HAL spec and HAL should
> map between the whacked-out-crazy kernel name, and whatever is in the
> HAL spec.  Doesn't do much good to expose a value if there's no

I've commited it for now. If we need to standardize the values, we can do it 
in a next step.

Danny


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