Re: Problem in IDE Disks cache handling in kernel 2.4.XX

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
10 Jan 2003 14:13:19 +0000


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

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