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    libata: Add a drivers/ide style DMA disable · b3a70601
    Alan Cox authored
    This is useful when debugging, handling problem systems, or for
    distributions just to get the system installed so it can be sorted
    out later.
    
    This is a bit smarter than the old IDE one and lets you do
    
    libata.dma=0	Disable all PATA DMA like old IDE
    libata.dma=1	Disk DMA only
    libata.dma=2	ATAPI DMA only
    libata.dma=4	CF DMA only
    
    (or combinations thereof - 0,1,3 being the useful ones I suspect)
    
    (I've split CF as it seems to be a seperate case of pain and suffering
    different to the others and caused by assorted PIO wired adapters etc)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
    
    [edited to work on SATA too, changing name from 'pata_dma' to 'dma']
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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