On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 20 December 2015 at 20:51, Peter Crosthwaite > <crosthwaitepe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> >> wrote: >>> For user-level back compat I think we need to retain "might have >>> an sdcard object with no block backend, and that means >>> 'no-card-present'". This is both for the user facing >>> monitor commands to manipulate the sd card, and also >> >> What are the user-facing monitor commands? I tried using "change" and >> "eject", but they don't seem to work for SD, due to the tray being >> closed. Has this ever worked in a way that is user manipulatable for >> SD or is it just to handle the case of unconditional SD card creation >> (with the card never hotplugging over the system lifetime)? > > I investigated this, and it looks like we accidentally broke > 'change' for SD cards in 2.5 (specifically in commit de2c6c05). > I think we should fix that regression, which in turn implies that > we still want to support the "sd card object with no block backend" case. >
Yes, saw the patches on list. I guess we are stuck with it. It would be good to do this in a way that supports use of the hotplug API alongside though, so SDIO device could all be ejected and inserted with the same way. Regards, Peter > thanks > -- PMM
