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 a5e371f61a: "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
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 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>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
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]
...
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>
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>
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>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
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
...
Arrange for the deallocation of a struct domain_device object when it no
longer has:
1/ any children
2/ references by any scsi_targets
3/ references by a lldd
The comment about domain_device lifetime in
Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt is stale as it appears mainline never had
a version of a struct domain_device that was registered as a kobject.
We now manage domain_device reference counts on behalf of external
agents.
Reviewed-by: Jack Wang <jack_wang@usish.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
The following patch for megaraid_sas updates the
ChangeLog.megaraid_sas file and updates the driver version.
Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.
Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/,
since the directory has changed.
Also update the files which have changed their filename
in the meantime accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
[jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Fix some minor typos:
* informations => information
* there own => their own
* these => this
Signed-off-by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@scilab.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This attribute, requested by Redhat, allows kexec-tools to know
whether the controller can honor the reset_devices kernel parameter
and actually reset the controller. For kdump to work properly it
is necessary that the reset_devices parameter be honored. This
attribute enables kexec-tools to warn the user if they attempt to
designate a non-resettable controller as the dump device.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
As discussed in a thread on this list titled:
"RFC: short reads on block devices"
this patch adds recommendations for LLDs to set resid
when there might be uncertainty about how much data
has been returned by a device.
This patch inline and attached] is against scsi-misc-2.6.git
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
The following patch updates the
Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas file.
Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS
arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c
Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
The current doc still says we call it with the host lock held, which is
going to cause confusion.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
This patch adds a new MTIOCTOP operation MTWEOFI that writes filemarks with
immediate bit set. This means that the drive does not flush its buffer and the
next file can be started immediately. This speeds up writing in applications
that have to write multiple small files.
Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Move SCSI parameters from kernel-parameters.txt to their own text file.
This continues a trend of moving non-core parameters out of
kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.
Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.
Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
