Re: [PATCH 10/26] xen-blkfront: don't disable cache flushes when they fail
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 04:30:39PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote: > On 6/11/24 2:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > blkfront always had a robust negotiation protocol for detecting a write > > cache. Stop simply disabling cache flushes when they fail as that is > > a grave error. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > > Looks good to me but maybe mention that removal of xlvbd_flush() as well ? > And it feels like the "stop disabling cache flushes when they fail" part should > be a fix patch sent separately... I'll move the patch to the front of the series to get more attention from the maintainers, but otherwise the xlvbd_flush remova lis the really trivial part here.