linux-toradex.git/Documentation/scsi, branch v3.6.1 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Merge branch 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2012-05-24T00:12:06+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2012-05-24T00:12:06+00:00 d5b4bb4d103cd601d8009f2d3a7e44586c9ae7cc Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker: "It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but realistically, nobody is using them anymore. They were mostly limited to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than 64MB of RAM. Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware. So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA. There is no point carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it; wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git grep'ping over it, and so on." Let's see if anybody screams. It generally has compiled, and James Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines. So in *theory* there may be users out there. But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't argue for keeping MCA support either. So we could bring it back. But somebody had better speak up and talk about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern kernels for us to do that. And David already took the patch to delete all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61ad3: "drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA"). * 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support. arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA 
Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker:
 "It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but
  realistically, nobody is using them anymore.  They were mostly limited
  to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than
  64MB of RAM.  Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have
  dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching
  various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware.

  So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA.  There is no point
  carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it;
  wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git
  grep'ping over it, and so on."

Let's see if anybody screams.  It generally has compiled, and James
Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that
allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines.  So in *theory*
there may be users out there.

But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually
have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar
that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't
argue for keeping MCA support either.

So we could bring it back.  But somebody had better speak up and talk
about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern
kernels for us to do that.  And David already took the patch to delete
all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61ad3: "drivers/net:
delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA").

* 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
  scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code
  serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support.
  arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA
scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code 2012-05-17T23:03:54+00:00 Paul Gortmaker paul.gortmaker@windriver.com 2012-05-17T00:33:52+00:00 a88dc06cd515b3bb9dfa18606e88d0be9a5b6ddd The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20 year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's software demands on CPU and memory resources. This commit removes the MCA specific SCSI drivers, and the MCA specific portions of code in dual role ISA/MCA drivers. Also, the MCA specific SCSI documentation is removed. Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> 
The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20
year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's
software demands on CPU and memory resources.

This commit removes the MCA specific SCSI drivers, and the
MCA specific portions of code in dual role ISA/MCA drivers.
Also, the MCA specific SCSI documentation is removed.

Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update 2012-04-23T18:26:41+00:00 adam radford aradford@gmail.com 2012-03-20T02:50:06+00:00 e38a813ba922fc7a8d0067f3f2717a67fbf0f328 The following patch for megaraid_sas updates the driver version to v00.00.06.15-rc1, and updates Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas. Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> 
The following patch for megaraid_sas updates the driver version to
v00.00.06.15-rc1, and updates Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas.

Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2012-03-31T20:31:23+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2012-03-31T20:31:23+00:00 a75ee6ecd411a50bf4da927c2fdb2cb56246a2bd Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "This is primarily another round of driver updates (lpfc, bfa, fcoe, ipr) plus a new ufshcd driver. There shouldn't be anything controversial in here (The final deletion of scsi proc_ops which caused some build breakage has been held over until the next merge window to give us more time to stabilise it). I'm afraid, with me moving continents at exactly the wrong time, anything submitted after the merge window opened has been held over to the next merge window." * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (63 commits) [SCSI] ipr: Driver version 2.5.3 [SCSI] ipr: Increase alignment boundary of command blocks [SCSI] ipr: Increase max concurrent oustanding commands [SCSI] ipr: Remove unnecessary memory barriers [SCSI] ipr: Remove unnecessary interrupt clearing on new adapters [SCSI] ipr: Fix target id allocation re-use problem [SCSI] atp870u, mpt2sas, qla4xxx use pci_dev->revision [SCSI] fcoe: Drop the rtnl_mutex before calling fcoe_ctlr_link_up [SCSI] bfa: Update the driver version to 3.0.23.0 [SCSI] bfa: BSG and User interface fixes. [SCSI] bfa: Fix to avoid vport delete hang on request queue full scenario. [SCSI] bfa: Move service parameter programming logic into firmware. [SCSI] bfa: Revised Fabric Assigned Address(FAA) feature implementation. [SCSI] bfa: Flash controller IOC pll init fixes. [SCSI] bfa: Serialize the IOC hw semaphore unlock logic. [SCSI] bfa: Modify ISR to process pending completions [SCSI] bfa: Add fc host issue lip support [SCSI] mpt2sas: remove extraneous sas_log_info messages [SCSI] libfc: fcoe_transport_create fails in single-CPU environment [SCSI] fcoe: reduce contention for fcoe_rx_list lock [v2] ... 
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is primarily another round of driver updates (lpfc, bfa, fcoe,
  ipr) plus a new ufshcd driver.  There shouldn't be anything
  controversial in here (The final deletion of scsi proc_ops which
  caused some build breakage has been held over until the next merge
  window to give us more time to stabilise it).

  I'm afraid, with me moving continents at exactly the wrong time,
  anything submitted after the merge window opened has been held over to
  the next merge window."

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (63 commits)
  [SCSI] ipr: Driver version 2.5.3
  [SCSI] ipr: Increase alignment boundary of command blocks
  [SCSI] ipr: Increase max concurrent oustanding commands
  [SCSI] ipr: Remove unnecessary memory barriers
  [SCSI] ipr: Remove unnecessary interrupt clearing on new adapters
  [SCSI] ipr: Fix target id allocation re-use problem
  [SCSI] atp870u, mpt2sas, qla4xxx use pci_dev->revision
  [SCSI] fcoe: Drop the rtnl_mutex before calling fcoe_ctlr_link_up
  [SCSI] bfa: Update the driver version to 3.0.23.0
  [SCSI] bfa: BSG and User interface fixes.
  [SCSI] bfa: Fix to avoid vport delete hang on request queue full scenario.
  [SCSI] bfa: Move service parameter programming logic into firmware.
  [SCSI] bfa: Revised Fabric Assigned Address(FAA) feature implementation.
  [SCSI] bfa: Flash controller IOC pll init fixes.
  [SCSI] bfa: Serialize the IOC hw semaphore unlock logic.
  [SCSI] bfa: Modify ISR to process pending completions
  [SCSI] bfa: Add fc host issue lip support
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: remove extraneous sas_log_info messages
  [SCSI] libfc: fcoe_transport_create fails in single-CPU environment
  [SCSI] fcoe: reduce contention for fcoe_rx_list lock [v2]
  ...
Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30T23:03:15+00:00 Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi 2012-03-30T20:37:16+00:00 970e2486492aa1eb47a436a5a4c81e92558986a9 Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the context. There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4 kernels that are being removed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and
is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are
replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the
context.

There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4
kernels that are being removed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[SCSI] st: expand ability to write immediate filemarks 2012-03-27T07:26:34+00:00 Lee Duncan lduncan@suse.com 2012-03-01T20:41:01+00:00 c743e44fbb1f8668941e83de07662b1ecd33d083 The st tape driver recently added the MTWEOFI ioctl, which writes a tape filemark (EOF), like the MTWEOF ioctl, except that MTWEOFI returns immediately. This makes certain applications, like backup software, run much more quickly on buffered tape drives. Since legacy applications do not know about this new MTWEOFI ioctl, this patch adds a new ioctl option that tells the st driver to return immediately when writing an EOF (i.e. a filemark). This new flag is much like the existing flag that tells the st driver to perform writes (and certain other IOs) immediately, but this new flag only applies to writing EOFs. This new feature is controlled via the MTSETDRVBUFFER ioctl, using the newly-defined MT_ST_NOWAIT_EOF flag. Use of this new feature is displayed via the sysfs tape "options" attribute. The st documentation was updated to mention this new flag, as well as the problems that can occur from using it. Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Acked-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> 
The st tape driver recently added the MTWEOFI ioctl, which writes
a tape filemark (EOF), like the MTWEOF ioctl, except that MTWEOFI
returns immediately. This makes certain applications, like backup
software, run much more quickly on buffered tape drives.

Since legacy applications do not know about this new MTWEOFI ioctl,
this patch adds a new ioctl option that tells the st driver to return
immediately when writing an EOF (i.e. a filemark). This new flag
is much like the existing flag that tells the st driver to perform
writes (and certain other IOs) immediately, but this new flag only
applies to writing EOFs.

This new feature is controlled via the MTSETDRVBUFFER ioctl, using
the newly-defined MT_ST_NOWAIT_EOF flag.

Use of this new feature is displayed via the sysfs tape "options"
attribute.

The st documentation was updated to mention this new flag, as well
as the problems that can occur from using it.

Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
[SCSI] ufshcd: UFS Host controller driver 2012-03-27T07:26:28+00:00 Santosh Yaraganavi santoshsy@gmail.com 2012-02-29T06:41:50+00:00 7a3e97b0dc4bbac2ba7803564ab0057722689921 This patch adds support for Universal Flash Storage(UFS) host controllers. The UFS host controller driver includes host controller initialization method. The Initialization process involves following steps: - Initiate UFS Host Controller initialization process by writing to Host controller enable register - Configure UFS Host controller registers with host memory space datastructure offsets. - Unipro link startup procedure - Check for connected device - Configure UFS host controller to process requests - Enable required interrupts - Configure interrupt aggregation [jejb: fix warnings in 32 bit compile] Signed-off-by: Santosh Yaraganavi <santoshsy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vinayak Holikatti <vinholikatti@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Vishak G <vishak.g@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Girish K S <girish.shivananjappa@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> 
This patch adds support for Universal Flash Storage(UFS)
host controllers. The UFS host controller driver
includes host controller initialization method.

The Initialization process involves following steps:
 - Initiate UFS Host Controller initialization process by writing
   to Host controller enable register
 - Configure UFS Host controller registers with host memory space
   datastructure offsets.
 - Unipro link startup procedure
 - Check for connected device
 - Configure UFS host controller to process requests
 - Enable required interrupts
 - Configure interrupt aggregation

[jejb: fix warnings in 32 bit compile]
Signed-off-by: Santosh Yaraganavi <santoshsy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Holikatti <vinholikatti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Vishak G <vishak.g@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Girish K S <girish.shivananjappa@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2012-03-22T19:55:29+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2012-03-22T19:55:29+00:00 424a6f6ef990b7e9f56f6627bfc6c46b493faeb4 SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "The update includes the usual assortment of driver updates (lpfc, qla2xxx, qla4xxx, bfa, bnx2fc, bnx2i, isci, fcoe, hpsa) plus a huge amount of infrastructure work in the SAS library and transport class as well as an iSCSI update. There's also a new SCSI based virtio driver." * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (177 commits) [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k15 [SCSI] qla4xxx: trivial cleanup [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix sparse warning [SCSI] qla4xxx: Add support for multiple session per host. [SCSI] qla4xxx: Export CHAP index as sysfs attribute [SCSI] scsi_transport: Export CHAP index as sysfs attribute [SCSI] qla4xxx: Add support to display CHAP list and delete CHAP entry [SCSI] iscsi_transport: Add support to display CHAP list and delete CHAP entry [SCSI] pm8001: fix endian issue with code optimization. [SCSI] pm8001: Fix possible racing condition. [SCSI] pm8001: Fix bogus interrupt state flag issue. [SCSI] ipr: update PCI ID definitions for new adapters [SCSI] qla2xxx: handle default case in qla2x00_request_firmware() [SCSI] isci: improvements in driver unloading routine [SCSI] isci: improve phy event warnings [SCSI] isci: debug, provide state-enum-to-string conversions [SCSI] scsi_transport_sas: 'enable' phys on reset [SCSI] libsas: don't recover end devices attached to disabled phys [SCSI] libsas: fixup target_port_protocols for expanders that don't report sata [SCSI] libsas: set attached device type and target protocols for local phys ... 
SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "The update includes the usual assortment of driver updates (lpfc,
  qla2xxx, qla4xxx, bfa, bnx2fc, bnx2i, isci, fcoe, hpsa) plus a huge
  amount of infrastructure work in the SAS library and transport class
  as well as an iSCSI update.  There's also a new SCSI based virtio
  driver."

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (177 commits)
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k15
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: trivial cleanup
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix sparse warning
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Add support for multiple session per host.
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Export CHAP index as sysfs attribute
  [SCSI] scsi_transport: Export CHAP index as sysfs attribute
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Add support to display CHAP list and delete CHAP entry
  [SCSI] iscsi_transport: Add support to display CHAP list and delete CHAP entry
  [SCSI] pm8001: fix endian issue with code optimization.
  [SCSI] pm8001: Fix possible racing condition.
  [SCSI] pm8001: Fix bogus interrupt state flag issue.
  [SCSI] ipr: update PCI ID definitions for new adapters
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: handle default case in qla2x00_request_firmware()
  [SCSI] isci: improvements in driver unloading routine
  [SCSI] isci: improve phy event warnings
  [SCSI] isci: debug, provide state-enum-to-string conversions
  [SCSI] scsi_transport_sas: 'enable' phys on reset
  [SCSI] libsas: don't recover end devices attached to disabled phys
  [SCSI] libsas: fixup target_port_protocols for expanders that don't report sata
  [SCSI] libsas: set attached device type and target protocols for local phys
  ...
Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07T15:08:24+00:00 Masanari Iida standby24x7@gmail.com 2012-03-04T14:16:11+00:00 40e47125e6c5110383b0176d7b9d530f2936b1ae Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> 
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Documentation: Fix Broken URL "freshmeat" 2012-02-21T10:43:45+00:00 Masanari Iida standby24x7@gmail.com 2012-02-13T13:42:58+00:00 1f8ee46b40efb13f8ce0d69ec6360badc7a39663 Fix broken URL in documents "freshmeat" to "freecode" in Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt, Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> 
Fix broken URL in documents "freshmeat" to "freecode" in
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt,
Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt
Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>