The HPCP bit is set by bioses for on-board sata ports either because
they think sata is hotplug capable in general or to allow Windows
to display a "device eject" icon on ports which are routed to an
external connector bracket.
However in Redhat Bugzilla #1310682, users report that with kernel 4.4,
where this bit test first appeared, a lot of partitions on sata drives
are now mounted automatically.
This patch should fix redhat and a lot of other distros which
unconditionally automount all devices which have the "removable"
bit set.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 8a3e33cf92 ("ata: ahci: find eSATA ports and flag them as removable" changes userspace behavior)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/56CF35FA.1070500@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v4.4+
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