On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

And a plea: the word "flush" in Linux is already abused for caches
(where it means invalidate, write back, or possibly both).  That's
enough trouble: if you also "flush" write buffers, your confusion will
be complete.  Maybe we should leave "flush" to plumbers and use more
precise terminology for computers...

 Too bad the original name for the function is wbflush() already...  At
least IDT uses it in their docs. 

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