This patch series improves the usefulness of the libata.force kernel boot parameters to facilitate field debugging of ata drives and adapter issues by extending the range of horkage flags and link flags that can be controlled. The first patch is a simple cleanup of the drive blacklist array. Patch 2 refactors the declaration of the force_tbl array defining the possible values that libata.force can take. Patch 3 and 4 extend this array adding most horkage flags and one link flag. Finally, patch 5 updates the kernel documentation reflecting these changes. Damien Le Moal (5): ata: libata-core: cleanup ata_device_blacklist ata: libata-core: Refactor force_tbl definition ata: libata-core: Improve link flags forced settings ata: libata-core: Allow forcing most horkage flags doc: admin-guide: Update libata kernel parameters .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 71 +++-- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 271 +++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-) -- 2.35.1
