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authorRobin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>2013-12-16 09:31:19 -0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-12-16 12:41:57 -0500
commitb8bd6dc36186fe99afa7b73e9e2d9a98ad5c4865 (patch)
treeead6b981a436b07c0dc8f40f568777d323fdabd9 /Documentation
parent6fec88712cea016b1fc929fee53f67e3993194a6 (diff)
libata: disable a disk via libata.force params
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> Cc: stable@vger.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
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -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.