>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Neukum <oneu...@suse.com> writes:

Oliver> Some SATA to USB bridges fail to cooperate with some drives
Oliver> resulting in no cache being present being reported to the
Oliver> host. That causes the host to skip sending a command to
Oliver> synchronize caches. That causes data loss when the drive is
Oliver> powered down.

diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
index a6c346d..392d166 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ struct scsi_device {
        unsigned try_rc_10_first:1;     /* Try READ_CAPACACITY_10 first */
        unsigned is_visible:1;  /* is the device visible in sysfs */
        unsigned wce_default_on:1;      /* Cache is ON by default */
+       unsigned always_sync:1;         /* synchronize cache in every case*/
        unsigned no_dif:1;      /* T10 PI (DIF) should be disabled */
        unsigned broken_fua:1;          /* Don't set FUA bit */
        unsigned lun_in_cdb:1;          /* Store LUN bits in CDB[1] */

I must be missing something. How is always_sync different from just
setting wce_default_on?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering
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