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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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). Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
