libata: disable a disk via libata.force params

commit b8bd6dc36186fe99afa7b73e9e2d9a98ad5c4865 upstream.

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>
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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index fcbb736d55feb439c1152be71355d5ab79f8edd2..4f7c57cb6022754527614de47ba3516355a369c6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1515,6 +1515,8 @@ 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 f6b0892d4b445c30d9c9add78671cbbd6aa57ffc..7d10c1685f6909571a63e445dea9988a915c04d8 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -6523,6 +6523,7 @@ 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;