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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 50680a59a2ff9a913e449a1d71ced9fab3004fe4..b9e9bd85429801efa537bc1ea85f773fc92099f8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -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.
 

diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index dae73efe5dbf7efc4ea40cd0ee5c27958b12c5f3..ff0158481d53c9c9cc7133b0463a8c665fe7a015 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -6522,6 +6522,7 @@ static int __init ata_parse_force_one(char **cur,
                { "norst",      .lflags         = ATA_LFLAG_NO_HRST | ATA_LFLAG_NO_SRST },
                { "rstonce",    .lflags         = ATA_LFLAG_RST_ONCE },
                { "atapi_dmadir", .horkage_on   = ATA_HORKAGE_ATAPI_DMADIR },
+               { "disable",    .horkage_on     = ATA_HORKAGE_DISABLE },
        };
        char *start = *cur, *p = *cur;
        char *id, *val, *endp;