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>
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