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author | Jonas Stare <jonas.stare@purplescout.se> | 2007-11-27 21:35:53 +0100 |
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committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2007-11-27 21:35:53 +0100 |
commit | 8266105b15192177ac732ab8a27b315dc9291100 (patch) | |
tree | 01c64979841a56b0468fb2e5f454213d91f61988 /mm | |
parent | 8ac98ce17cf318f6ceb1eb88053917001f5ca60a (diff) |
ide: skip ide_wait_not_busy() on noprobe-disks
There is a problem in some hardware where the kernel will stall for
35 seconds waiting for disks that don't exist. This patch will skip
waiting for the BSY-bit on IDE drives to go away if you set "hdx=noprobe"
as a kernel option and the disk is not marked as 'present' (like when
you set the geometry by hand).
If no noprobe-option is set the code will work (more or less) as the
original but if set the code will skip the ide_wait_not_busy() for
that drive. Even if there would be a drive there and it is still busy
afterwards it should not matter since it isn't probed for later.
The code also honors the MAX_DRIVES variable instead of assuming that
there will be two harddrives on the bus.
Bart: minor cleanups
Signed-off-by: Jonas Stare <jonas.stare@purplescout.se>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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