Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:41:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Alex Davis <> | Subject | Re: Possible bug and question about ide_notify_reboot in 2.4.19 |
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--- Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > We (T13 Standards) only recently required (shall) all non-packet device to > support flush cache. No where does it state that a device supporting PM > for a standby (shall), the key word here is "shall", issue a flush-cache. I am assuming that a hard drive is a non-packet device. Let me make sure I'm interpreting this correctly: older ( and some current ) drives may flush cache on standby/sleep; current and future drives may not. In addition, older drives may not support the flush cache command.
> I will not break support for older hardware, on a whim. Not my intention.
> You said you can make a patch, please do so and apply it to your tree. > Now, if you want the option, submit the patch for review. For two or > three days there has been no patch to test. Still testing locally. I also want to fix the code so that the flush is done before the standby.
> > To be absolutely honest, I really do not like to give options in the > kernel-config build which can cause backwards compatablity problems. This wouldn't be a config option. You would have to modify ide.c by hand to disable standby. > > Andre Hedrick > LAD Storage Consulting Group >
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