From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] libata: enable SATA disk fua detection on default Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:11:36 +0400 Message-ID: <4FF351F8.1000003@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <1336447443-4685-1-git-send-email-wenqing.lz@taobao.com> <20120703090441.GA4804@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:36106 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933424Ab2GCULk (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:11:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120703090441.GA4804@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Zheng Liu On 03.07.2012 13:04, Zheng Liu wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Sorry for bothering you. Could you please review this patch, or give me > some feedbacks. If this patch can be applied, I can rebase it to the > lastest version of mainline kernel. Thank you. [] >> -int libata_fua = 0; >> +int libata_fua = 1; I guess it can be enabled after LOTS of testing of various drives out there, which shows that no current drives have issues with FUA anymore, and after building a black-list of devices which misbehave. It is quite a big project, I think. But what it gives us in return? (I've no idea if this is the right answer, speaking of myself only) Thanks, /mjt