diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts5139/TODO b/drivers/staging/rts5139/TODO
index 4bde726ea5fa..dd5fabb8ea70 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rts5139/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/rts5139/TODO
@@ -2,4 +2,8 @@ TODO:
 - support more USB card reader of Realtek family
 - use kernel coding style
 - checkpatch.pl fixes
-
+- stop having thousands of lines of code duplicated with staging/rts_pstor
+- This driver contains an entire SD/MMC stack -- it should use the stack in
+  drivers/mmc instead, as a host driver e.g. drivers/mmc/host/realtek-usb.c;
+  see drivers/mmc/host/ushc.c as an example.
+- This driver presents cards as SCSI devices, but they should be MMC devices.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/TODO b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/TODO
index 2f93a7c1b5ad..becb95e4f2cd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/rts_pstor/TODO
@@ -2,4 +2,8 @@ TODO:
 - support more pcie card reader of Realtek family
 - use kernel coding style
 - checkpatch.pl fixes
-
+- stop having thousands of lines of code duplicated with staging/rts5139
+- This driver contains an entire SD/MMC stack -- it should use the stack in
+  drivers/mmc instead, as a host driver e.g. drivers/mmc/host/realtek-pci.c;
+  see drivers/mmc/host/via-sdmmc.c as an example.
+- This driver presents cards as SCSI devices, but they should be MMC devices.