From 1dc58ce4a96460a21c6038f9517ce72ae73cfcc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robin H. Johnson" Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:31:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- 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 96401631523d..1311a48a7367 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1458,6 +1458,8 @@ 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 d18ab9015e3e..8cacd1693f03 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -6507,6 +6507,7 @@ 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; -- 2.34.1