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[Tom Fisher <tom@xxxxxxx>]

> > does work, although on many occasions (like now) it doesn't want to work
> > until I reboot with a card in the slot.  Any suggestions?
>
> There is a patch I posted that fixes some problems with the sd card
> reader. It is in the linux-mmc queue for one of the next kernels.

in the meantime, a quicker solution someone mentioned a while back which 'works for me' in 2.6.30 is 
to suspend (echo mem > /sys/power/state) and resume.
upon resume i get the device back as /dev/mmcblk0

it's just faster than rebooting...