Re: [PATCH v2] libata: disable a disk via libata.force params

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:31:19AM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> 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>
> 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

Applied to libata/for-3.13-fixes w/ stable cc'd and minor description
edits.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun