[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "libata: disable a disk via libata.force params" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    libata: disable a disk via libata.force params

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2 at gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:31:19 -0800
Subject: libata: disable a disk via libata.force params

commit b8bd6dc36186fe99afa7b73e9e2d9a98ad5c4865 upstream.

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 <robbat2 at gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
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
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++
 drivers/ata/libata-core.c           | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 7f9d4f5..205cc23 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1460,6 +1460,8 @@ 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 bcdbcff..bfd727a 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -6509,6 +6509,7 @@ 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;
--
1.8.3.2