From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: ltuikov@yahoo.com,
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost 3] [SCSI] Retrieve the Caching mode page
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:48:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101124144811.GA29196@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290593429.14652.33.camel@mulgrave.site>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:10:29AM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> The final question is is it worth it? Since USB devices are supposed to
> be hot unpluggable, surely a USB device with a write back cache would be
> a disaster: no-one will SYNC the cache on a surprise unplug anyway ...
> therefore there shouldn't really be any of them surviving in the wild
> (famous last words, I suppose).
There's tons of USB devices with writeback caches. Recent windows
version tend to use the FUA bit a lot because of this. And the linux
usb storage target implementation thus has a hook to ignore the FUA bit,
and it's probably not the only one..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-22 16:56 [PATCH repost 3] [SCSI] Retrieve the Caching mode page Luben Tuikov
2010-11-22 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-22 19:02 ` Douglas Gilbert
2010-11-23 4:59 ` Matthew Dharm
2010-11-23 18:40 ` Douglas Gilbert
2010-11-22 20:02 ` Luben Tuikov
2010-11-23 5:00 ` Matthew Dharm
2010-11-23 9:25 ` Luben Tuikov
2010-11-23 14:30 ` Matthew Dharm
2010-11-24 9:02 ` Luben Tuikov
2010-11-24 10:10 ` James Bottomley
2010-11-24 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-11-24 14:49 ` Alan Stern
2010-11-24 14:58 ` James Bottomley
2010-11-24 16:55 ` Luben Tuikov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-23 8:43 Luben Tuikov
2010-12-05 20:53 Luben Tuikov
2010-12-08 0:02 Luben Tuikov
2010-12-08 0:12 ` Greg KH
2010-12-08 5:05 ` James Bottomley
2010-12-08 8:01 ` Luben Tuikov
2010-12-08 15:16 ` Alan Stern
2010-12-08 15:43 ` James Bottomley
2010-12-08 15:57 ` Alan Stern
2010-12-08 16:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
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