Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> No, because my patch forces the execution of WDC_FLUSHCACHE regardless
> of the revision. But it's not really an acceptable fix.  Could you see
> if the attached patch fix your problem ? If so I'll commit it.

Okay, I patched the kernel with this patch now. I shut down the system
several times by pressing the power button - and every time the system
came up again _without_ doing any filesystem checks! So to me it looks
like this patch fixes the problem! That's great!

Thank you very much for your help!

Michael