From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752069Ab2FKRKX (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:10:23 -0400 Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:53439 "EHLO mail-lpp01m010-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751687Ab2FKRKU (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:10:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4FD62653.7060206@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:09:39 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Namjae Jeon CC: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, bvanassche@acm.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namjae Jeon , Pankaj Kumar , Amit Sahrawat Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] usb: storage: update usb devices for write cache quirk in quirk list. References: <1339263678-4075-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> <4FD39998.4020903@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. On 10-06-2012 4:45, Namjae Jeon wrote: >>> Update information of Seagate Portable HDD and WD My Passport HDD in >>> quirk list. >>> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon >>> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar >>> Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat >>> --- >>> drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) >>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h >>> b/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h >>> index 1719886..64f0369 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h >>> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h >>> @@ -1267,6 +1267,18 @@ UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x0af0, 0xd357, 0x0000, 0x0000, >>> USB_SC_DEVICE, USB_PR_DEVICE, NULL, >>> 0 ), >>> >>> +/* Reported by Namjae Jeon >>> + * Even though write cache is enabled by default, >>> + * SCSI driver assume that cache is not enabled >>> + * which in turn might lead loss of data >> ^ to the >>> + * since data still will be in cache. >>> + * So this entry is needed for assuming that cache is enabled. >>> + */ >>> +UNUSUAL_DEV(0x0bc2, 0x2300, 0x0000, 0x9999, >>> + "Seagate", >>> + "Portable HDD", >>> + USB_SC_DEVICE, USB_PR_DEVICE, NULL, US_FL_WRITE_CACHE), >>> + >>> /* Reported by Ben Efros */ >>> UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x0bc2, 0x3010, 0x0000, 0x0000, >>> "Seagate", >>> @@ -1468,6 +1480,18 @@ UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x1058, 0x0704, 0x0000, 0x9999, >>> USB_SC_DEVICE, USB_PR_DEVICE, NULL, >>> US_FL_SANE_SENSE), >>> >>> +/* Reported by Namjae Jeon >>> + * Even though write cache is enabled by default, >>> + * SCSI driver assume that cache is not enabled >>> + * which in turn might lead loss of data >> ^ to the > to the ? Sorry, I don't understand what you want to change. > like this ? "Even though write cache is enabled by default, SCSI > driver assume that cache is not enabled and it in turn might lead the > loss of data. " Lead to the loss of data. WBR, Sergei