[PATCH] ide: option to disable cache flushes for buggy drives

Some drives claim they support cache flushing, but get seriously
confused if you try. Add this option to be able to boot with
barriers enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c
index 05fbd9298db7..defd4b4bd374 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
                 const char *hd_words[] = {
                         "none", "noprobe", "nowerr", "cdrom", "serialize",
                         "autotune", "noautotune", "minus8", "swapdata", "bswap",
-                        "minus11", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL };
+                        "noflush", "remap", "remap63", "scsi", NULL };
                 unit = s[2] - 'a';
                 hw   = unit / MAX_DRIVES;
                 unit = unit % MAX_DRIVES;
@@ -1578,6 +1578,9 @@ static int __init ide_setup(char *s)
                         case -10: /* "bswap" */
                                 drive->bswap = 1;
                                 goto done;
+                        case -11: /* noflush */
+                                drive->noflush = 1;
+                                goto done;
                         case -12: /* "remap" */
                                 drive->remap_0_to_1 = 1;
                                 goto done;