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* [PATCH] libata: Note that our cache flush code needs fixing up
@ 2007-08-08 13:30 Alan Cox
  2007-08-15  7:44 ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2007-08-08 13:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jeff, linux-ide

Remembered this while doing auditing and code review versus the specs

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c linux-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
--- linux.vanilla-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c	2007-07-26 15:02:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.23rc1-mm1/drivers/ata/libata-core.c	2007-08-08 13:38:39.257549616 +0100
@@ -5980,6 +6110,10 @@
 	else
 		cmd = ATA_CMD_FLUSH;
 
+	/* This is wrong. On a failed flush we get back the LBA of the lost
+	   sector and we should (assuming it wasn't aborted as unknown) issue
+	   a further flush command to continue the writeback until it 
+	   does not error */
 	err_mask = ata_do_simple_cmd(dev, cmd);
 	if (err_mask) {
 		ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_ERR, "failed to flush cache\n");

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* Re: [PATCH] libata: Note that our cache flush code needs fixing up
  2007-08-08 13:30 [PATCH] libata: Note that our cache flush code needs fixing up Alan Cox
@ 2007-08-15  7:44 ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Garzik @ 2007-08-15  7:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alan Cox; +Cc: linux-ide

Alan Cox wrote:
> Remembered this while doing auditing and code review versus the specs
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

applied



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