Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Skip ide_wait_not_busy on noprobe-disks. was: [PATCH][RESUBMIT] drivers/ide/ide-probe.c, kernel 2.6.23.1 | Date | Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:39:33 +0100 |
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On Friday 16 November 2007, Jonas Stare wrote: > There is a problem in some hardware where the kernel will stall for > 35 seconds waiting for disks that dont 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 BSY > 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.) > > > Signed-off-by: Jonas Stare <jonas.stare@purplescout.se>
Thanks!
PS There were still some whitespace problems (all tabs were replaced by spaces) so I just applied it by hand (and made few minor cleanups while at it).
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