FCE support enables the firmware to record FC extended link
services and basic link services frames which have been
transmitted and received by the ISP. This allows for a limited
view of the FC traffic through the ISP without using a FC
analyzer. This can be useful in situations where a physical
connection to the FC bus is not possible.
The driver exports this information in two ways -- first, via a
debugfs node exported for all supported ISPs under:
<debugfs_mount_point>/qla2xxx/qla2xxx_<host_no>/fce
where a read of the 'fce' file will provide a snapshot of the
firmware's FCE buffer; and finally, the FCE buffer will be
extracted during a firmware-dump scenario.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Following patch adds support for NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) to the
qla2xxx.
- supported within switched-fabric topologies only.
- supports up to 63 virtual ports on each physical port.
Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Expandind on the previous commit:
commit 79f89a4296
Author: andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Date: Fri Jan 13 17:05:58 2006 -0800
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Disable port-type RSCN handling via driver state-machine.
and given:
- the process-context requirements of the FC transport
rport-APIs.
- lack of port-type RSCN processing logic for ISP24xx and newer
chips.
it's time now to remove the state-machine logic from mainline.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
As new 23xx firmware will accomidate ISP63xx types.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Original From: Adrian Bunk
Here's a composite patch with Adrian's original additions and
help-text with the new Kconfig variable SCSI_QLA_FC.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Transition driver to exclusively use the request_firmware()
interfaces to retrieve firmware-blobs from user-space. This
will be the default behaviour going forward until the
embedded firmware-binary images are removed from the
upstream kernel.
Upon request, the driver caches the firmware image until the
driver is unloaded.
NOTE: The option is present to allow the user to continue to
use the firmware-loader modules, but, should be considered
deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This adds the appropriate FW_LOADER pre-requisite and a separate entry
for ISP24xx support.
Thanks to Adrian Bunk and Jesper Juhl for their efforts in fixing this
quirk.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If we haven't configured the qla24xx driver, then the Makefile shouldn't
do it for us.
This also means that we can avoid the unnecessary selection of FC_ATTRS.
Debugged by James Bottomley
Add OS initialization codes for ISP24xx recognition.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Add initial support for FC remote port infrastructure.
o Use fc_remote_port...() registration and block/unlock
functions.
o Consolidate 'attribute' (fc-remote/sysfs) helpers into
new qla_attr.c file.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
