| Release Date : Thu Feb 03 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module) |
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| 1. Modified name of two attributes in scsi_host_template. |
| On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:56 -0500, Ju, Seokmann wrote: |
| > + .sdev_attrs = megaraid_device_attrs, |
| > + .shost_attrs = megaraid_class_device_attrs, |
| |
| These are, perhaps, slightly confusing names. |
| The terms device and class_device have well defined meanings in the |
| generic device model, neither of which is what you mean here. |
| Why not simply megaraid_sdev_attrs and megaraid_shost_attrs? |
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| Other than this, it looks fine to me too. |
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| Release Date : Thu Jan 27 00:01:03 EST 2005 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.4.3 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module) |
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| 1. Bump up the version of scsi module due to its conflict. |
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| Release Date : Thu Jan 21 00:01:03 EST 2005 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.4.3 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.4.2 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module) |
| |
| 1. Remove driver ioctl for logical drive to scsi address translation and |
| replace with the sysfs attribute. To remove drives and change |
| capacity, application shall now use the device attribute to get the |
| logical drive number for a scsi device. For adding newly created |
| logical drives, class device attribute would be required to uniquely |
| identify each controller. |
| - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| |
| "James, I've been thinking about this a little more, and you may be on |
| to something here. Let each driver add files as such:" |
| |
| - Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, 12.15.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
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| |
| "Then, if you simply publish your LD number as an extra parameter of |
| the device, you can look through /sys to find it." |
| |
| - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 01.03.2005 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
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| |
| "I don't see why not ... it's your driver, you can publish whatever |
| extra information you need as scsi_device attributes; that was one of |
| the designs of the extensible attribute system." |
| |
| - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 01.06.2005 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
| |
| 2. Add AMI megaraid support - Brian King <brking@charter.net> |
| PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMI_MEGARAID3, |
| PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMI, PCI_SUBSYS_ID_PERC3_DC, |
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| 3. Make some code static - Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
| Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:14:57 +0100 |
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| The patch below makes some needlessly global code static. |
| -wait_queue_head_t wait_q; |
| +static wait_queue_head_t wait_q; |
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| Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
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| 4. Added NEC ROMB support - NEC MegaRAID PCI Express ROMB controller |
| PCI_VENDOR_ID_LSI_LOGIC, PCI_DEVICE_ID_MEGARAID_NEC_ROMB_2E, |
| PCI_SUBSYS_ID_NEC, PCI_SUBSYS_ID_MEGARAID_NEC_ROMB_2E, |
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| 5. Fixed Tape drive issue : For any Direct CDB command to physical device |
| including tape, timeout value set by driver was 10 minutes. With this |
| value, most of command will return within timeout. However, for those |
| command like ERASE or FORMAT, it takes more than an hour depends on |
| capacity of the device and the command could be terminated before it |
| completes. |
| To address this issue, the 'timeout' field in the DCDB command will |
| have NO TIMEOUT (i.e., 4) value as its timeout on DCDB command. |
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| Release Date : Thu Dec 9 19:10:23 EST 2004 |
| - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com> |
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| Current Version : 2.20.4.2 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.3 (cmm module) |
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| i. Introduced driver ioctl that returns scsi address for a given ld. |
| |
| "Why can't the existing sysfs interfaces be used to do this?" |
| - Brian King (brking@us.ibm.com) |
| |
| "I've looked into solving this another way, but I cannot see how |
| to get this driver-private mapping of logical drive number-> HCTL |
| without putting code something like this into the driver." |
| |
| "...and by providing a mapping a function to userspace, the driver |
| is free to change its mapping algorithm in the future if necessary .." |
| - Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com) |
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| Release Date : Thu Dec 9 19:02:14 EST 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com> |
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| Current Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.3 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.2 (cmm module) |
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| i. Fix a bug in kioc's dma buffer deallocation |
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| Release Date : Thu Nov 4 18:24:56 EST 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com> |
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| Current Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.2 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.1 (cmm module) |
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| i. Handle IOCTL cmd timeouts more properly. |
| |
| ii. pci_dma_sync_{sg,single}_for_cpu was introduced into megaraid_mbox |
| incorrectly (instead of _for_device). Changed to appropriate |
| pci_dma_sync_{sg,single}_for_device. |
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| Release Date : Wed Oct 06 11:15:29 EDT 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.1 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module) |
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| i. Remove CONFIG_COMPAT around register_ioctl32_conversion |
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| Release Date : Mon Sep 27 22:15:07 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.3.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module) |
| |
| i. Fix data corruption. Because of a typo in the driver, the IO packets |
| were wrongly shared by the ioctl path. This causes a whole IO command |
| to be replaced by an incoming ioctl command. |
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| Release Date : Tue Aug 24 09:43:35 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.3.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.3.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module) |
| |
| i. Function reordering so that inline functions are defined before they |
| are actually used. It is now mandatory for GCC 3.4.1 (current stable) |
| |
| Declare some heavy-weight functions to be non-inlined, |
| megaraid_mbox_build_cmd, megaraid_mbox_runpendq, |
| megaraid_mbox_prepare_pthru, megaraid_mbox_prepare_epthru, |
| megaraid_busywait_mbox |
| |
| - Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, 08.19.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
| |
| "Something else to clean up after inclusion: every instance of an |
| inline function is actually rendered as a full function call, because |
| the function is always used before it is defined. Atul, please |
| re-arrange the code to eliminate the need for most (all) of the |
| function prototypes at the top of each file, and define (not just |
| declare with a prototype) each inline function before its first use" |
| |
| - Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, 07.27.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
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| ii. Display elapsed time (countdown) while waiting for FW to boot. |
| |
| iii. Module compilation reorder in Makefile so that unresolved symbols do |
| not occur when driver is compiled non-modular. |
| |
| Patrick J. LoPresti <patl@users.sourceforge.net>, 8.22.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
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| Release Date : Thu Aug 19 09:58:33 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.3.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.2.0 (scsi module), 2.20.1.0 (cmm module) |
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| i. When copying the mailbox packets, copy only first 14 bytes (for 32-bit |
| mailboxes) and only first 22 bytes (for 64-bit mailboxes). This is to |
| avoid getting the stale values for busy bit. We want to set the busy |
| bit just before issuing command to the FW. |
| |
| ii. In the reset handling, if the reseted command is not owned by the |
| driver, do not (wrongly) print information for the "attached" driver |
| packet. |
| |
| iii. Have extended wait when issuing command in synchronous mode. This is |
| required for the cases where the option ROM is disabled and there is |
| no BIOS to start the controller. The FW starts to boot after receiving |
| the first command from the driver. The current driver has 1 second |
| timeout for the synchronous commands, which is far less than what is |
| actually required. We now wait up to MBOX_RESET_TIME (180 seconds) for |
| FW boot process. |
| |
| iv. In megaraid_mbox_product_info, clear the mailbox contents completely |
| before preparing the command for inquiry3. This is to ensure that the |
| FW does not get junk values in the command. |
| |
| v. Do away with the redundant LSI_CONFIG_COMPAT redefinition for |
| CONFIG_COMPAT. Replace <asm/ioctl32.h> with <linux/ioctl32.h> |
| |
| - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 08.17.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
| |
| vi. Add support for 64-bit applications. Current drivers assume only |
| 32-bit applications, even on 64-bit platforms. Use the "data" and |
| "buffer" fields of the mimd_t structure, instead of embedded 32-bit |
| addresses in application mailbox and passthru structures. |
| |
| vii. Move the function declarations for the management module from |
| megaraid_mm.h to megaraid_mm.c |
| |
| - Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, 08.19.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
| |
| viii. Change default values for MEGARAID_NEWGEN, MEGARAID_MM, and |
| MEGARAID_MAILBOX to 'n' in Kconfig.megaraid |
| |
| - Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, 08.19.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
| |
| ix. replace udelay with msleep |
| |
| x. Typos corrected in comments and whitespace adjustments, explicit |
| grouping of expressions. |
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| Release Date : Fri Jul 23 15:22:07 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.2.0 (scsi module), 2.20.1.0 (cmm module) |
| Older Version : 2.20.1.0 (scsi module), 2.20.0.0 (cmm module) |
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| i. Add PCI ids for Acer ROMB 2E solution |
| |
| ii. Add PCI ids for I4 |
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| iii. Typo corrected for subsys id for megaraid sata 300-4x |
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| iv. Remove yield() while mailbox handshake in synchronous commands |
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| |
| "My other main gripe is things like this: |
| |
| + // wait for maximum 1 second for status to post |
| + for (i = 0; i < 40000; i++) { |
| + if (mbox->numstatus != 0xFF) break; |
| + udelay(25); yield(); |
| + } |
| |
| which litter the driver. Use of yield() in drivers is deprecated." |
| |
| - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 07.14.2004 |
| linux-scsi mailing list |
| |
| v. Remove redundant __megaraid_busywait_mbox routine |
| |
| vi. Fix bug in the managment module, which causes a system lockup when the |
| IO module is loaded and then unloaded, followed by executing any |
| management utility. The current version of management module does not |
| handle the adapter unregister properly. |
| |
| Specifically, it still keeps a reference to the unregistered |
| controllers. To avoid this, the static array adapters has been |
| replaced by a dynamic list, which gets updated every time an adapter |
| is added or removed. |
| |
| Also, during unregistration of the IO module, the resources are |
| now released in the exact reverse order of the allocation time |
| sequence. |
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| Release Date : Fri Jun 25 18:58:43 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.1.0 |
| Older Version : megaraid 2.20.0.1 |
| |
| i. Stale list pointer in adapter causes kernel panic when module |
| megaraid_mbox is unloaded |
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| Release Date : Thu Jun 24 20:37:11 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.0.1 |
| Older Version : megaraid 2.20.0.00 |
| |
| i. Modules are not 'y' by default, but depend on current definition of |
| SCSI & PCI. |
| |
| ii. Redundant structure mraid_driver_t removed. |
| |
| iii. Miscellaneous indentation and goto/label fixes. |
| - Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, 06.24.2004 linux-scsi |
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| iv. scsi_host_put(), do just before completing HBA shutdown. |
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| Release Date : Mon Jun 21 19:53:54 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com> |
| Current Version : 2.20.0.0 |
| Older Version : megaraid 2.20.0.rc2 and 2.00.3 |
| |
| i. Independent module to interact with userland applications and |
| multiplex command to low level RAID module(s). |
| |
| "Shared code in a third module, a "library module", is an acceptable |
| solution. modprobe automatically loads dependent modules, so users |
| running "modprobe driver1" or "modprobe driver2" would automatically |
| load the shared library module." |
| |
| - Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 02.25.2004 LKML |
| |
| "As Jeff hinted, if your userspace<->driver API is consistent between |
| your new MPT-based RAID controllers and your existing megaraid driver, |
| then perhaps you need a single small helper module (lsiioctl or some |
| better name), loaded by both mptraid and megaraid automatically, which |
| handles registering the /dev/megaraid node dynamically. In this case, |
| both mptraid and megaraid would register with lsiioctl for each |
| adapter discovered, and lsiioctl would essentially be a switch, |
| redirecting userspace tool ioctls to the appropriate driver." |
| |
| - Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> 02.25.2004 LKML |
| |
| ii. Remove C99 initializations from pci_device id. |
| |
| "pci_id_table_g would be much more readable when not using C99 |
| initializers. |
| PCI table doesn't change, there's lots of users that prefer the more |
| readable variant. And it's really far less and much easier to grok |
| lines without C99 initializers." |
| |
| - Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, 05.28.2004 linux-scsi |
| |
| iii. Many fixes as suggested by Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> on |
| linux-scsi, 05.28.2004 |
| |
| iv. We now support up to 32 parallel ioctl commands instead of current 1. |
| There is a conscious effort to let memory allocation not fail for ioctl |
| commands. |
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| v. Do away with internal memory management. Use pci_pool_(create|alloc) |
| instead. |
| |
| vi. Kill tasklet when unloading the driver. |
| |
| vii. Do not use "host_lock', driver has fine-grain locks now to protect all |
| data structures. |
| |
| viii. Optimize the build scatter-gather list routine. The callers already |
| know the data transfer address and length. |
| |
| ix. Better implementation of error handling and recovery. Driver now |
| performs extended errors recovery for instances like scsi cable pull. |
| |
| x. Disassociate the management commands with an overlaid scsi command. |
| Driver now treats the management packets as special packets and has a |
| dedicated callback routine. |