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2009-06-07ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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 <hancockrwd@gmail.com> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> [patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop] Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27gayle: add "doubler" parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Add "doubler" parameter to enable support for IDE doublers. * Obsolete "ide=doubler" kernel parameter. Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: add "cdrom=" and "chs=" parametersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Add "cdrom=" and "chs=" parameters. * Obsolete "hdx=cdrom" and "hdx=cyls,heads,sects" kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: add "nodma|noflush|noprobe|nowerr=" parametersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Add "nodma|noflush|noprobe|nowerr=" parameters. * Obsolete "hdx=noprobe|none|nowerr|nodma|noflush" kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "hdx=autotune" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Remove obsoleted "hdx=autotune" kernel parameter (we always auto-tune PIO if possible nowadays). * Remove no longer needed ide_drive_t.autotune flag. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: mark "idebus=" kernel parameter as obsoleted (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
We have "vlb|pci_clock=" parameters now. Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parametersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parameters. * Make probe_* and cmd640_vlb variables static. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "idex=reset" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Remove obsoleted "idex=reset" kernel parameter (it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004). Then remove corresponding code from ide_probe_port() and no longer used ->reset field from ide_hwif_t. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "idex=serialize" kernel parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Remove obsoleted "idex=serialize" kernel parameter (it has been obsoleted since 1 Nov 2004). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: add "ignore_cable" parameter (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Add "ignore_cable" parameter: * "ide_core.ignore_cable=[interface_number]" boot option if IDE is built-in (i.e. "ide_core.ignore_cable=1" to force ignoring cable for "ide1") * "ignore_cable=[interface_number]" module parameter (for ide_core module) if IDE is compiled as module v2: * Add ide_port_apply_params() helper - use it in ide_device_add_all() and ide_scan_port(). * Make it possible to later disable ignoring cable detection by passing "[interface_number]:0" to /sys/module/ide_core/parameters/ignore_cable (however sysfs interface is not enabled yet since it needs some other IDE changes to make it work reliable). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-18ide: add ide-4drives host driver (take 3)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_4DRIVES deserves its own host driver: * Add drivers/ide/legacy/ide-4drives.c and move "4drives" support there. * Add ide-4drives.o in the link order after all other legacy host drivers enabled by "ide0=" options (they all are mutually exclusive). * Make ide-4drives host driver probe itself for IDE devices instead of indirectly depending on ide_generic host driver. * Add "probe" module parameter to ide-4drives and update documentation. v2: * s/paramater/parameter/ in ide.txt. (Noticed by Randy Dunlap) v3: * s/ide_4drives.probe/ide-4drives.probe/ in help entry. (Noticed by Sergei Shtylyov) Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-18ide: remove obsoleted "idex=base[,ctl[,irq]]" kernel parameters (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Remove obsoleted "idex=base[,ctl[,irq]]" kernel parameters and update Documentation/ide/ide.txt. * Remove no longer needed ide_forced chipset type. v2: * is_chipset_set[] -> is_chipset_set in ide.c. * Documentation/ide/ide.txt fix. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-18ide: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE config option (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD hack from init_hwif_default() ("hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" kernel parameters should be used instead if somebody wishes to use the old "hd" driver). * Make CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY config option available also when IDE subsystem is used and update help entry. * Remove no longer needed CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE config option. v2: * Update documentation to suggest "hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" instead of obsoleted "ide0=noprobe". * Update Documentation/ide/ide.txt. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-18IDE: remove ide=reverse IDE coreGreg Kroah-Hartman
This option is obsolete and can be removed safely. It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the PCI core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoleted (they are layering violation and should be dealt with in the same way as done by libata - device-mapper should be used instead). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoleted (nowadays device-driver binding can be changed at runtime through sysfs and it can also be dealt with using per device driver parameters). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: Documentation/ide/ide.txt fixesBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* "hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq" should be "hdx=cyls,heads,sects". * "hdx=" is for "x" from 'a' to 'u', "idex=" is for "x" from '0' to '9'. * "idex=noautotune" is long gone. * Obsoleted "ide0=" parameters were already removed from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-07ide: move ide.txt to Documentation/ide/Randy Dunlap
Cleanup some of Documentation directory: Move Documentation/ide.txt to the ide/ sub-directory. Fix trailing whitespace while there. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>