Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:48:34 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Problem in IDE Disks cache handling in kernel 2.4.XX |
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On Fri, Jan 10 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 13:03, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Oh, just let the darn thing barf a 0x51/0x04 is fine with me! > > Just an abort/unsupported command. > > Sounds ok to me. We do need a barfsupressor option so we can issue > commands that may fail without confusing the user (eg multiwrite setup) > > ie > ide_hwif_barfsupress(hwif); > ide_command.... > > That's very much true irrespective of the flush thing
In the barrier patches, I just used drive->quiet to supress ide_error() complaining too much (on cache flushes, too). Whether that's per-drive of per-hwif entity, dunno...
-- Jens Axboe
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