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
Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
Jonas Stare wrote:
diff -u linux-2.6.23.1-orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c ---
linux-2.6.23.1-orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2007-10-12
18:43:44.0 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2007-11-16
Resubmit of IDE-probing-patch. It now checks hwif-drives[unit].present instead
of
forced_geom and there is also an if-statement so it doesn't change back to the
master
unless it have to. I choose to put it inside the if-statement that checks the
return
code from ide_wait_not_busy, since it
Jonas Stare wrote:
diff -u linux-2.6.23.1-orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
--- linux-2.6.23.1-orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2007-10-12 18:43:44.0 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c 2007-11-16 10:26:23.0
+0100
@@ -643,6
On Friday 16 November 2007, Jonas Stare wrote:
Resubmit of IDE-probing-patch. It now checks hwif-drives[unit].present
instead of
forced_geom and there is also an if-statement so it doesn't change back to
the master
unless it have to. I choose to put it inside the if-statement that checks
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
