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Date:      25 Aug 2003 16:28:06 -0000
From:      tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas Seck)
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.c
Message-ID:  <20030825162806.590.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200308250759.h7P7xoqx035753@repoman.freebsd.org>

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* S=F8ren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org):

>  Log:
>  Only call FLUSH_CACHE on devices that say they can.
>=20=20
>  This will get rid of the warnings issued at shutdown (that seems to
>  worry alot of users), but will also no flush cache on lots of
>  devices that can, but doesn't set the right support bits...

Just a thought: Do you think a sysctl/tunable to force cache flushing
regardless of whether the device claims it can do so would be useful?

     --Thomas



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