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

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Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:43:30 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@...too.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libata: disable a disk via libata.force params

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@...too.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
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