From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robin H. Johnson" Subject: [PATCH v2] libata: disable a disk via libata.force params Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:31:19 -0800 Message-ID: <1387215079-29897-1-git-send-email-robbat2@gentoo.org> References: <1386464187-6993-1-git-send-email-robbat2@gentoo.org> Return-path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:48896 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754588Ab3LPRbe (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:31:34 -0500 Received: from grubbs.orbis-terrarum.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43B9D33F203 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:31:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1386464187-6993-1-git-send-email-robbat2@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, "Robin H. Johnson" 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 X-URL: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk X-URL: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co X-URL: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 50680a5..b9e9bd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1529,6 +1529,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. * atapi_dmadir: Enable ATAPI DMADIR bridge support + * disable: Disable this device. + If there are multiple matching configurations changing the same attribute, the last one is used. diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index 75b9367..70529b8 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -6519,6 +6519,7 @@ 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; -- 1.8.4.3