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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/scsidrivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/scsidrivers.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index d058e65daf19..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/scsidrivers.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,193 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> - -<book id="scsidrivers"> - <bookinfo> - <title>SCSI Subsystem Interfaces</title> - - <authorgroup> - <author> - <firstname>Douglas</firstname> - <surname>Gilbert</surname> - <affiliation> - <address> - <email>dgilbert@interlog.com</email> - </address> - </affiliation> - </author> - </authorgroup> - <pubdate>2003-08-11</pubdate> - - <copyright> - <year>2002</year> - <year>2003</year> - <holder>Douglas Gilbert</holder> - </copyright> - - <legalnotice> - <para> - This documentation is free software; you can redistribute - it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public - License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either - version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later - version. - </para> - - <para> - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be - useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied - warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. - See the GNU General Public License for more details. - </para> - - <para> - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public - License along with this program; if not, write to the Free - Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, - MA 02111-1307 USA - </para> - - <para> - For more details see the file COPYING in the source - distribution of Linux. - </para> - </legalnotice> - - </bookinfo> - -<toc></toc> - - <chapter id="intro"> - <title>Introduction</title> - <para> -This document outlines the interface between the Linux scsi mid level -and lower level drivers. Lower level drivers are variously called HBA -(host bus adapter) drivers, host drivers (HD) or pseudo adapter drivers. -The latter alludes to the fact that a lower level driver may be a -bridge to another IO subsystem (and the "ide-scsi" driver is an example -of this). There can be many lower level drivers active in a running -system, but only one per hardware type. For example, the aic7xxx driver -controls adaptec controllers based on the 7xxx chip series. Most lower -level drivers can control one or more scsi hosts (a.k.a. scsi initiators). - </para> -<para> -This document can been found in an ASCII text file in the linux kernel -source: <filename>Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt</filename> . -It currently hold a little more information than this document. The -<filename>drivers/scsi/hosts.h</filename> and <filename> -drivers/scsi/scsi.h</filename> headers contain descriptions of members -of important structures for the scsi subsystem. -</para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="driver-struct"> - <title>Driver structure</title> - <para> -Traditionally a lower level driver for the scsi subsystem has been -at least two files in the drivers/scsi directory. For example, a -driver called "xyz" has a header file "xyz.h" and a source file -"xyz.c". [Actually there is no good reason why this couldn't all -be in one file.] Some drivers that have been ported to several operating -systems (e.g. aic7xxx which has separate files for generic and -OS-specific code) have more than two files. Such drivers tend to have -their own directory under the drivers/scsi directory. - </para> - <para> -scsi_module.c is normally included at the end of a lower -level driver. For it to work a declaration like this is needed before -it is included: -<programlisting> - static Scsi_Host_Template driver_template = DRIVER_TEMPLATE; - /* DRIVER_TEMPLATE should contain pointers to supported interface - functions. Scsi_Host_Template is defined hosts.h */ - #include "scsi_module.c" -</programlisting> - </para> - <para> -The scsi_module.c assumes the name "driver_template" is appropriately -defined. It contains 2 functions: -<orderedlist> -<listitem><para> - init_this_scsi_driver() called during builtin and module driver - initialization: invokes mid level's scsi_register_host() -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> - exit_this_scsi_driver() called during closedown: invokes - mid level's scsi_unregister_host() -</para></listitem> -</orderedlist> - </para> -<para> -When a new, lower level driver is being added to Linux, the following -files (all found in the drivers/scsi directory) will need some attention: -Makefile, Config.help and Config.in . It is probably best to look at what -an existing lower level driver does in this regard. -</para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="intfunctions"> - <title>Interface Functions</title> -!EDocumentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt - </chapter> - - <chapter id="locks"> - <title>Locks</title> -<para> -Each Scsi_Host instance has a spin_lock called Scsi_Host::default_lock -which is initialized in scsi_register() [found in hosts.c]. Within the -same function the Scsi_Host::host_lock pointer is initialized to point -at default_lock with the scsi_assign_lock() function. Thereafter -lock and unlock operations performed by the mid level use the -Scsi_Host::host_lock pointer. -</para> -<para> -Lower level drivers can override the use of Scsi_Host::default_lock by -using scsi_assign_lock(). The earliest opportunity to do this would -be in the detect() function after it has invoked scsi_register(). It -could be replaced by a coarser grain lock (e.g. per driver) or a -lock of equal granularity (i.e. per host). Using finer grain locks -(e.g. per scsi device) may be possible by juggling locks in -queuecommand(). -</para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="changes"> - <title>Changes since lk 2.4 series</title> -<para> -io_request_lock has been replaced by several finer grained locks. The lock -relevant to lower level drivers is Scsi_Host::host_lock and there is one -per scsi host. -</para> -<para> -The older error handling mechanism has been removed. This means the -lower level interface functions abort() and reset() have been removed. -</para> -<para> -In the 2.4 series the scsi subsystem configuration descriptions were -aggregated with the configuration descriptions from all other Linux -subsystems in the Documentation/Configure.help file. In the 2.5 series, -the scsi subsystem now has its own (much smaller) drivers/scsi/Config.help -file. -</para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="credits"> - <title>Credits</title> -<para> -The following people have contributed to this document: -<orderedlist> -<listitem><para> -Mike Anderson <email>andmike@us.ibm.com</email> -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -James Bottomley <email>James.Bottomley@steeleye.com</email> -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Patrick Mansfield <email>patmans@us.ibm.com</email> -</para></listitem> -</orderedlist> -</para> - </chapter> - -</book> |