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| author | Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> | 2016-09-12 15:19:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-09-13 08:08:24 +0200 |
| commit | 050bc4e846af24e77af82d0fa5f718e0919d15a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a670fd070e7d58478639602cb133509826329d2 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | usb: Kconfig: let USB_ULPI_BUS depends on USB_COMMON (diff) | |
| download | linux-050bc4e846af24e77af82d0fa5f718e0919d15a4.tar.xz linux-050bc4e846af24e77af82d0fa5f718e0919d15a4.zip | |
scsi: introduce a quirk for false cache reporting
Some SATA to USB bridges fail to cooperate with some
drives resulting in no cache being present being reported
to the host. That causes the host to skip sending
a command to synchronize caches. That causes data loss
when the drive is powered down.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a4f4d693e2c1..edb7d5d9db83 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4238,6 +4238,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. u = IGNORE_UAS (don't bind to the uas driver); w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the medium is write-protected). + y = ALWAYS_SYNC (issue a SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE + even if the device claims no cache) Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc user_debug= [KNL,ARM] |