From 075affcbe01d4d7cefcd0e30a98df1253bcf8d92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:52:52 +0200 Subject: ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools. Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives. Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if any partitions overlapping HPA are detected. Additionally HPA can also be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0" to disable HPA on /dev/hda). v2: Fix ->resume HPA support. While at it: - remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Cc: Robert Hancock Cc: Frans Pop Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" Cc: Al Viro Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov [patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop] Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index a19f021f081..e58c91ca802 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -835,11 +835,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file ide-core.nodma= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem Format: =0.0 to prevent dma on hda, =0.1 hdb =1.0 hdc - .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .noprobe .nowerr .cdrom - .chs .ignore_cable are additional options - See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. - - idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem - VLB/PCI bus speed + .vlb_clock .pci_clock .noflush .nohpa .noprobe .nowerr + .cdrom .chs .ignore_cable are additional options See Documentation/ide/ide.txt. ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2