Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:46:58 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 |
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Mark. > > Mark Lord wrote: > > > > .. hold off on 2.6.16 because of this or not? > > > > It certainly is dangerous. I guess we should turn off FUA for the time being. > Barrier auto-fallback was once implemented but it didn't seem like a good idea > as it was too complex and hides low level bug from higher level. The concensus > seems to be developing blacklist of drives which lie about FUA support > (currently only one drive). Official kernel doesn't seem to be the correct > place to grow the blacklist, Maybe we should do it from -mm?
For 2.6.16, the only sane solution for now is to just turn it off.
Somebody want to send me a patch that does that, along with an ack from Mark (and whoever else sees this) that it fixes his/their problems?
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