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Carry the `probe_mask' parameter over from ide-generic to pata_legacy so that there is a way to prevent random poking at ISA port I/O locations in attempt to discover adapter option cards with libata like with the old IDE driver. By default all enabled locations are tried, however it may interfere with a different kind of hardware responding there. For example with a plain (E)ISA system the driver tries all the six possible locations: scsi host0: pata_legacy ata1: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 irq 14 ata1.00: ATA-4: ST310211A, 3.54, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 19541088 sectors, multi 16: LBA ata1.00: configured for PIO scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST310211A 3.54 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 19541088 512-byte logical blocks: (10.0 GB/9.32 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk scsi host1: pata_legacy ata2: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 irq 15 scsi host1: pata_legacy ata3: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1e8 ctl 0x3ee irq 11 scsi host1: pata_legacy ata4: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x168 ctl 0x36e irq 10 scsi host1: pata_legacy ata5: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1e0 ctl 0x3e6 irq 8 scsi host1: pata_legacy ata6: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x160 ctl 0x366 irq 12 however giving the kernel "pata_legacy.probe_mask=21" makes it try every other location only: scsi host0: pata_legacy ata1: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 irq 14 ata1.00: ATA-4: ST310211A, 3.54, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 19541088 sectors, multi 16: LBA ata1.00: configured for PIO scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST310211A 3.54 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 19541088 512-byte logical blocks: (10.0 GB/9.32 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk scsi host1: pata_legacy ata2: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1e8 ctl 0x3ee irq 11 scsi host1: pata_legacy ata3: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1e0 ctl 0x3e6 irq 8 Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2103211800110.21463@angie.orcam.me.uk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.