Re: [PATCH v2] sd: Ignore sync cache failures when not supported

[Bart Van Assche]

On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 11:43 +0200, Thierry Escande wrote:
> From: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Some external hard drives don't support the sync command even though the
> hard drive has write cache enabled. In this case, upon suspend request,
> sync cache failures are ignored if the error code in the sense header is
> ILLEGAL_REQUEST. There's not much we can do for these drives, so we
> shouldn't fail to suspend for this error case. The drive may stay
> powered if that's the setup for the port it's plugged into.

Reviewed-by: Bart van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx>