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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
