[PATCH 07/11] sdhci: Add quirk to suppress PIO interrupts during DMA transfers

[Pierre Ossman]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 21:06:55 +0300
Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> Some hosts (that is, FSL eSDHC) throw PIO interrupts during DMA
> transfers, this causes tons of unneeded interrupts, and thus highly
> degraded speed.
> 
> This patch adds SDHCI_QUIRK_PIO_IRQS_DURING_DMA quirk. When specified,
> the sdhci driver will disable PIO interrupts during DMA transfers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
> ---

It's probably better to change the interrupt handling to only enable
relevant interrupts instead of having everything on constantly. Too
many quirks just makes the driver difficult to understand.

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