From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754131Ab1K2Eor (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:44:47 -0500 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:56526 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752378Ab1K2Eop (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:44:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:44:42 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Josh Boyer Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sd: Lower printk level for drive cache information Message-ID: <20111129044442.GA19616@infradead.org> References: <20111128163053.GA24618@zod.bos.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111128163053.GA24618@zod.bos.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > Numerous devices don't present cache data, particularly USB sticks. The > devices operate correctly despite this, so lower the printk severity to > KERN_NOTICE. Do they? The last reports on the list were for devices that didn't present it but actually needed cache flushes despite not having the cache mode page.