linux-kernel - Re: Stop SSD from waiting for "Spinning up disk..."

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Message-ID: <20150622153653.GB15570@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2015 08:36:53 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: Stop SSD from waiting for "Spinning up disk..."

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:25:29PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> 
> There's no need to wait for disk spin-up for USB SSD devices. This patch
> allow the SSD to skip waiting disk spin-up by passing sd_mod.ssd=1 during
> boot-up.
> 
> If there's a better way to handle this, please share.

Module parameters are never a solution for a device-specific property,
sorry.

greg k-h
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