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2009-06-07ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-0/+2
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>
2009-01-06ide: update warm-plug HOWTOBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-0/+5
Reported-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27gayle: add "doubler" parameterBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-6/+3
* 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 Zolnierkiewicz1-17/+14
* 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 Zolnierkiewicz1-13/+13
* 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 Zolnierkiewicz1-7/+0
* 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 Zolnierkiewicz1-10/+0
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-tape: remove comments markup from Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txtBorislav Petkov1-67/+65
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide-tape: remove pipelined mode description from Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txtBorislav Petkov1-79/+0
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27ide: remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parametersBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-2/+0
* 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 Zolnierkiewicz1-2/+0
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 Zolnierkiewicz1-5/+0
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 Zolnierkiewicz1-5/+10
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 Zolnierkiewicz1-2/+3
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 Zolnierkiewicz1-32/+1
* 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 Zolnierkiewicz1-7/+0
* 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: add warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-0/+13
* Add 'struct class ide_port_class' ('ide_port' class) and a 'struct device *portdev' ('ide_port' class device) in ide_hwif_t. * Register 'ide_port' class in ide_init() and unregister it in cleanup_module(). * Create ->portdev in ide_register_port () and unregister it in ide_unregister(). * Add "delete_devices" class device attribute for unregistering IDE devices on a port and "scan" one for probing+registering IDE devices on a port. * Add ide_sysfs_register_port() helper for registering "delete_devices" and "scan" attributes with ->portdev. Call it in ide_device_add_all(). * Document IDE warm-plug support in Documentation/ide/warm-plug-howto.txt. v2: * Convert patch from using 'struct class_device' to use 'struct device'. (thanks to Kay Sievers for doing it) Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-18IDE: remove ide=reverse IDE coreGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+0
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 Zolnierkiewicz1-5/+0
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 Zolnierkiewicz1-4/+0
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 Zolnierkiewicz1-9/+3
* "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: update references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt (v2)Randy Dunlap1-0/+12
Fix all references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt. Add/update ide/00-INDEX file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-07ide: move ide.txt to Documentation/ide/Randy Dunlap1-0/+335
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>
2008-02-02ide-tape: move historical changelog to ↵Borislav Petkov2-0/+403
Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-tape.1995-2002 Also, cleanup whitespace and update comments. Bart: - remove reference to drivers/block/ide.c - move driver documentation to Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txt Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-02-02ide-floppy: cleanup headerBorislav Petkov1-0/+63
Move ide-floppy historical changelog to Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-floppy.1996-2002 Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-02-02ide-cd: move historical changelog to ↵Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz1-0/+268
Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004 Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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