libata: Note that our cache flush code needs fixing up

Remembered this while doing auditing and code review versus the specs

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Alan Cox 2007-08-08 14:30:31 +01:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
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@ -5906,6 +5906,10 @@ int ata_flush_cache(struct ata_device *dev)
else
cmd = ATA_CMD_FLUSH;
/* This is wrong. On a failed flush we get back the LBA of the lost
sector and we should (assuming it wasn't aborted as unknown) issue
a further flush command to continue the writeback until it
does not error */
err_mask = ata_do_simple_cmd(dev, cmd);
if (err_mask) {
ata_dev_printk(dev, KERN_ERR, "failed to flush cache\n");