From: Robin H. Johnson Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:31:19 +0000 (-0800) Subject: libata: disable a disk via libata.force params X-Git-Tag: v3.12.7~56 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83ceef0795fb85bb40bb90b300e3ebd8e8628454;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git 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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 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 --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index fcbb736d55feb..4f7c57cb60227 100644 --- 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 f6b0892d4b445..7d10c1685f690 100644 --- 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;