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

[Jens Axboe]

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