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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Jun Itou <itou_jun@infoseek.jp>,
	Markus Rathgeb <maggu2810@gmail.com>, Matt <vickm78@hotmail.com>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB Storage list <usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	brad <bradhaack@fastmail.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: storage: add "no SYNCHRONIZE CACHE" quirk
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:34:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1450179271.17387.19.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1512031320580.1324-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 13:36 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> This is an old problem, but it was never resolved and it still affects
> people (Bugzilla #89511).  In short, there are USB-(S)ATA bridges that
> claim to be write-back but don't support the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE
> command.  
> This causes errors when filesystems try to flush data out to the disk.

OK, maybe this is a stupid idea, but could we test the command as we
enumerate the slave and store the result?

	Regards
		Oliver



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-15 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-22 14:55 [PATCH] USB: storage: add "no SYNCHRONIZE CACHE" quirk Alan Stern
2015-06-22 15:43 ` James Bottomley
2015-06-22 17:30   ` Alan Stern
2015-06-22 17:36     ` James Bottomley
     [not found]       ` <1434994588.2237.90.camel-d9PhHud1JfjCXq6kfMZ53/egYHeGw8Jk@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-22 17:48         ` Alan Stern
2015-06-22 18:44           ` Markus Rathgeb
     [not found]             ` <CAOcK=COj7=akJUhsg2Pfr5aeh_tC9dEL3rZK1yKuvTN0KyJB1A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-22 20:16               ` Alan Stern
2015-06-22 21:32                 ` Markus Rathgeb
     [not found]           ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1506221340180.1799-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-22 21:22             ` James Bottomley
     [not found]               ` <1435008177.2237.137.camel-d9PhHud1JfjCXq6kfMZ53/egYHeGw8Jk@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-24 15:19                 ` Alan Stern
2015-12-03 18:36               ` Alan Stern
2015-12-15 11:34                 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <1450179271.17387.19.camel-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 15:16                     ` Alan Stern
2015-06-23 14:15         ` David Laight
2015-06-26  9:43         ` Stefan Richter
2015-06-26 10:14           ` James Bottomley
2015-06-26 11:05             ` Stefan Richter

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