Re: [PATCH resend 5/5] libata-scsi: fix MODE SELECT translation for Control mode page

[Tom Yan]

Yes, because it touches an actual ATA drive setting, while D_SENSE is
merely a "software setting" stored in dev->flags to make the kernel
response differently when build sense data.

On 26 July 2016 at 02:30, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 05:50:18AM +0800, Tom Yan wrote:
>> As I've mentioned in the comment/message, there is no ATA command
>> needed to be sent to the device, since it only toggles a bit in
>> dev->flags. See that there is no ata_taskfile constructed in
>> ata_mselect_control().
>
> But ata_mselect_caching() contructs a tf?
>
> --
> tejun