[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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h
index dc7abef10965..99620451d958 100644
--- a/include/linux/ide.h
+++ b/include/linux/ide.h
@@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ typedef struct ide_drive_s {
         u8      waiting_for_dma;        /* dma currently in progress */
         u8      unmask;                 /* okay to unmask other irqs */
         u8      bswap;                  /* byte swap data */
+        u8      noflush;                /* don't attempt flushes */
         u8      dsc_overlap;            /* DSC overlap */
         u8      nice1;                  /* give potential excess bandwidth */