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 <[email protected]>
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
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