ide: skip ide_wait_not_busy() on noprobe-disks
There is a problem in some hardware where the kernel will stall for
35 seconds waiting for disks that don't 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 busy
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.
Bart: minor cleanups
Signed-off-by: Jonas Stare <jonas.stare@purplescout.se>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
index 56fb0b8..ee848c7 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@
static int wait_hwif_ready(ide_hwif_t *hwif)
{
- int rc;
+ int unit, rc;
printk(KERN_DEBUG "Probing IDE interface %s...\n", hwif->name);
@@ -661,20 +661,26 @@
return rc;
/* Now make sure both master & slave are ready */
- SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[0]);
- hwif->OUTB(8, hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]);
- mdelay(2);
- rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
- if (rc)
- return rc;
- SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[1]);
- hwif->OUTB(8, hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]);
- mdelay(2);
- rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
+ for (unit = 0; unit < MAX_DRIVES; unit++) {
+ ide_drive_t *drive = &hwif->drives[unit];
+ /* Ignore disks that we will not probe for later. */
+ if (!drive->noprobe || drive->present) {
+ SELECT_DRIVE(drive);
+ hwif->OUTB(8, hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]);
+ mdelay(2);
+ rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
+ if (rc)
+ goto out;
+ } else
+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: ide_wait_not_busy() skipped\n",
+ drive->name);
+ }
+out:
/* Exit function with master reselected (let's be sane) */
- SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[0]);
-
+ if (unit)
+ SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[0]);
+
return rc;
}