Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

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?

		Linus
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