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    • Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz's avatar
      ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) · 075affcb
      Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored 
      
From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host
Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and
risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools.

Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally
disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time
when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the
BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives.

Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using
HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if
any partitions overlapping HPA are detected.  Additionally HPA can also
be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0"
to disable HPA on /dev/hda).

v2:
Fix ->resume HPA support.

While at it:
- remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
[patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop]
Emphatically-Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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    • Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz's avatar
      ide: remove broken disk byte-swapping support · 9e47be0c
      Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored 
      Remove broken disk byte-swapping support:
- it can cause a data corruption on SMP (or if using PREEMPT on UP)
- all data coming from disk are byte-swapped by taskfile_*_data() which
  results in incorrect identify data being reported by /proc/ide/ and IOCTLs
- "hdx=bswap/byteswap" kernel parameter has been broken on m68k host drivers
  (including Atari/Q40 ones) since 2.5.x days (because of 'hwif' zero-ing)
- byte-swapping is limited to PIO transfers (for working with TiVo disks on
  x86 machines using user-space solutions or dm-byteswap should result in
  much better performance because DMA can be used)

For previous discussions please see:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0201.0/0768.html
http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/2/28/111



[ I have dm-byteswap device mapper target if somebody is interested
  (patch is for 2.6.4 though but I'll dust it off if needed). ]
Acked-by: default avatarSergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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    • Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz's avatar
      ide: make remaining built-in only IDE host drivers modular (take 2) · ade2daf9
      Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored 
      
* Make remaining built-in only IDE host drivers modular, add ide-scan-pci.c
  file for probing PCI host drivers registered with IDE core (special case
  for built-in IDE and CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y) and then take care of
  the ordering in which all IDE host drivers are probed when IDE is built-in
  during link time.

* Move probing of gayle, falconide, macide, q40ide and buddha (m68k arch
  specific) host drivers, before PCI ones (no PCI on m68k), ide-cris (cris
  arch specific), cmd640 (x86 arch specific) and pmac (ppc arch specific).

* Move probing of ide-cris (cris arch specific) host driver before cmd640
  (x86 arch specific).

* Move probing of mpc8xx (ppc specific) host driver before ide-pnp (depends
  on ISA and none of ppc platform that use mpc8xx supports ISA) and ide-h8300
  (h8300 arch specific).

* Add "probe_vlb" kernel parameter to cmd640 host driver and update
  Documentation/ide.txt accordingly.

* Make IDE_ARM config option visible so it can also be disabled if needed.

* Remove bogus comment from ide.c while at it.

v2:
* Fix two issues spotted by Sergei:
  - replace ENOMEM error value by ENOENT in ide-h8300 host driver
  - fix MODULE_PARM_DESC() in cmd640 host driver

Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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