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authorGravatar Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> 2013-12-16 09:31:19 -0800
committerGravatar Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 2013-12-16 12:41:57 -0500
commitb8bd6dc36186fe99afa7b73e9e2d9a98ad5c4865 (patch)
treeead6b981a436b07c0dc8f40f568777d323fdabd9 /drivers/ata
parentahci: bail out on ICH6 before using AHCI BAR (diff)
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libata: disable a disk via libata.force params
A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly onto the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option to disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the BIOS. The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this, but that was never ported to the libata layer. This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force. Example use: libata.force=2.0:disable [v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo] Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk Link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co Link: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/libata-core.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index dae73efe5dbf..ff0158481d53 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -6522,6 +6522,7 @@ static int __init ata_parse_force_one(char **cur,
{ "norst", .lflags = ATA_LFLAG_NO_HRST | ATA_LFLAG_NO_SRST },
{ "rstonce", .lflags = ATA_LFLAG_RST_ONCE },
{ "atapi_dmadir", .horkage_on = ATA_HORKAGE_ATAPI_DMADIR },
+ { "disable", .horkage_on = ATA_HORKAGE_DISABLE },
};
char *start = *cur, *p = *cur;
char *id, *val, *endp;