Re: [PATCH] mmc_spi: use EILSEQ for possible transmission errors

From: Wolfgang Mües
Date: Mon May 25 2009 - 06:18:40 EST


David,

Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 schrieb David Brownell:
> It can't. But when the card controller knows that for example
> certain logical blocks are not holding data, it can use that
> for wear leveling ... it's got more physical blocks to use to
> even out the writes, as well as having any records it kept on
> writes, reads, and erasures.

OK. So the block layer is issuing erase commands for all sectors which get
unused, to let the mmc/sd card controller know that these areas are unused.

Are these erase commands requests (as reads and writes)? I suppose...

So if this code gets integrated, we can do:

if (command is erase)
accept erase response codes
else
treat erase response codes as transmission errors

Should be no problem...

regards
 
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