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On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 04:30:39PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 6/11/24 2:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > blkfront always had a robust negotiation protocol for detecting a write
> > cache.  Stop simply disabling cache flushes when they fail as that is
> > a grave error.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> Looks good to me but maybe mention that removal of xlvbd_flush() as well ?
> And it feels like the "stop disabling cache flushes when they fail" part should
> be a fix patch sent separately...

I'll move the patch to the front of the series to get more attention from
the maintainers, but otherwise the xlvbd_flush remova lis the really
trivial part here.