hcyun@etri.re.kr writes:
Hello
I found that ide driver take too much time for probing unnecessary drives. (drivers/ide-probe.c) it probe from hda to hdl as you can see below and it takes about 3 ~ 4 seconds. However common main board have only 2 ide controller so probing over hde is unnecessary. My solution is redefine MAX_HWIF as 2 (originally 6) so I can reduce probing time down to 1 second. Is there any other way which can control this such as using kernel parameter?
iden=noprobe.
Eric