Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752673AbYL3MY6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:24:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751813AbYL3MYt (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:24:49 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:35146 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751394AbYL3MYs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:24:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:24:47 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.28: Is there a way to disable sata probing for certain ports? Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 845 Lines: 20 When I boot from an Intel X25-E SSD, it takes roughly a few seconds; however, items such as: $ dmesg|grep link\ down [ 2.447030] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 4.481288] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) [ 6.501288] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) [ 8.522038] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) [ 10.552288] ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) Scanning for devices on channels that have nothing connected adds to the boot time, is there anyway to turn off/disable scanning for certain ports to help speed the boot process? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/