Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263174AbUCTARt (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:17:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263182AbUCTARt (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:17:49 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:38369 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263174AbUCTARs (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:17:48 -0500 Message-ID: <405B8D9F.10008@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:17:35 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel , Chris Mason Subject: Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set References: <20040319153554.GC2933@suse.de> <405B2127.8090705@pobox.com> <200403200059.22234.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <200403200059.22234.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 17 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > The fact that spec says "supported" not "enabled" in description of word86 > makes me wonder - can they be disabled? (FLUSH CACHE is mandatory for General > feature set and FLUSH CACHE EXT is mandatory if 48-bit LBA is supported) IOW, "mandantory" isn't really mandantory, if you scale over time... Always check the identify-device feature bits before using a feature set :) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/