From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, "C.Y.M." <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Changes to ide-probe.c in 2.6.9-rc2 causing improper detection
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:07:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409141407.50483.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095156346.16572.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 12:05, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-09-14 at 07:06, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Alan, I bet there are a lot of these. Maybe we should consider letting
> > the user manually flag support for FLUSH_CACHE, at least it is in their
> > hands then.
>
> You are assuming the drive supports "FLUSH_CACHE" just because it
> doesn't error it. Thats a good way to have accidents.
Yep.
> The patch I posted originally did turn wcache off for barrier if no
> flush cache support was present but had a small bug so that bit got
> dropped.
'small bug' was that it didn't disable wcache except one
error case (which I've never seen in the wild). 8)
Check what ioctl hdparm uses for enabling wcache
and then think about implications for disabling wcache
by default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-14 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 2:26 C.Y.M.
2004-09-14 6:06 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 7:03 ` C.Y.M.
2004-09-14 7:06 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 7:15 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 8:20 ` C.Y.M.
2004-09-14 8:28 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:09 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:12 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:43 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 12:21 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:37 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-14 10:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:11 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 11:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-14 13:15 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 10:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 11:09 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 12:07 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2004-09-14 15:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:25 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-14 15:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 15:33 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 15:39 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-14 15:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-14 15:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-14 15:31 ` Mark Lord
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