On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Holger Schurig <holgerschu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There have been some attempts to add FFU (field firmware update).  The last
> AFAIK in Nov 2014, http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mmc/msg29324.html
>
> But it seems that the committers weren't persistent enought.
>
> I took the liberty to take Avi's patch and make it hopefully
> maintainer-review friendly.
>
> The first 5 patches just move functions out of mmc_test.c into core.c. Those
> functions will later be used by both mmc_test.c and mmc_ffu.c.  Contrary to
> Avi's patch I didn't add static helper functions to mmc_test.c, e.g.
> there's no mmc_test_prepare_mrq() that calls mmc_prepare_mrq().  It's
> simpler to call mmc_prepare_mrq() directly.  It's just one more dereference
> from *mmc_card to *mmc_test_card anyway.
>
> The patch [6/6] is http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mmc/msg29326.html, but
> with less checkpatch warnings.  And it doesn't use mmc_send_ext_csd()
> anymore, which has been deleted since November.
>
> I'm sending this patch as RFC now. It compiles (for me). But I get the
> firmware update file from Kingston only next Tuesday.  That means that so
> far I haven't been testing it. It won't do anything without the proper
> user-space command in mmc-utils anyway :-)
>
> Comments welcome (I intent to get this patch into the kernel)
>
> The patch is against Linux GIT (v4.3-11748-g46d862b).
>
> Holger
>
>  drivers/mmc/card/Kconfig    |  11 +
>  drivers/mmc/card/Makefile   |   1 +
>  drivers/mmc/card/block.c    |   5 +
>  drivers/mmc/card/mmc_ffu.c  | 489 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/mmc/card/mmc_test.c | 235 +++++----------------
>  drivers/mmc/core/core.c     | 134 ++++++++++++
>  drivers/mmc/core/mmc_ops.c  |   4 +-
>  include/linux/mmc/card.h    |   1 +
>  include/linux/mmc/core.h    |  41 ++++
>  include/linux/mmc/mmc.h     |   6 +
>  10 files changed, 739 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mmc/card/mmc_ffu.c

The newly added ioctl MMC_IOC_MULTI_CMD allows user space to send
multiple commands
atomically, so mmu-utils may be a better place for this functionality.

Al
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