ATA_FLUSHCACHE failing

[Mark Santcroos]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:36:31PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Panic dumps cannot use either device interrupts or timeouts, not to
> mention normal locks, since panics may occur in almost any context;
> in particular they may occur with all interrupts masked and important
> locks in a bad state.  Immediate mode must be used, but it doesn't
> seem to be, and a comment says that it is only used for other things:

My eye felt on the same code and comments!

But if this is indeed the problem, why isn't everyone experiencing this
issue?

Stated differently, are there problems with using ATA_IMMEDIATE_MODE?

Mark