Re: [BUGFIX 2/2] gdth: bugfix for the Timer at exit crash

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> -	gdth_flush(ha);
> -

This piece doesn't look right.  gdth_flush() forces the internal cache
to disk backing.  If you remove it, you're taking the chance that the
machine will be powered off without a writeback which can cause data
corruption.

James


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