16 Mar, 2014

1 commit


11 Feb, 2014

1 commit

  • Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
    not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception
    of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
    not been touched.

    New 00-INDEX
    - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006

    Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
    - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a07d ("dmatest: run test via
    debugfs")
    - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d637 ("percpu: add
    documentation on this_cpu operations")
    - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add
    support for wound/wait style locks")
    - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer
    cache")
    - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb40410
    ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
    kthreads")
    - phy.txt was added by commit ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic
    PHY framework")
    - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc0314 ("null_blk:
    documentation")
    - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea307642 ("Add
    Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
    - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic
    associative array implementation.")
    - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
    - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e839
    ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
    - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77fc ("ARM: Add
    interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
    - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05241d ("ARM:
    7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
    - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cfdd ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
    (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
    - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e05 ("ARM: mcpm: Add
    baremetal voting mutexes")
    - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
    4b60779d5ea7 ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
    gptimers API")
    - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc681a ("dt:
    Linux DT usage model documentation")
    - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f42879 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
    format configuration API")
    - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a049807105 ("video, sm501: add
    edid and commandline support")
    - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864afd6 ("fbdev: move udlfb out
    of staging.")
    - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48a2
    ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
    - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
    8a4c6e19cfed ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
    configuration")
    - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413ec6 ("ide: add
    warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
    - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc21
    ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
    - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f65 ("LEDS: add
    BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
    - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cde2 ("leds: add
    oneshot trigger")
    - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e705 ("leds:
    add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
    - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
    - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
    40839129f779, c4e84bde1d59, 5a4faa873782
    - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build
    Documentation/ sources")
    - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b32 ("i40evf: add
    driver to kernel build system")
    - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36e2 ("xfrm: Add
    file to document IPsec corner case")
    - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
    3cd7920a2be8 ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
    - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c3981
    ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
    - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1597f
    ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
    - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce
    ethernet teaming device")
    - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d2f ("vxlan:
    virtual extensible lan")
    - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a09a ("PM: Introduce
    core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)")
    - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56ea
    ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
    - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa2e ("rcu:
    Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
    - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
    - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b358 ("qeth: bridgeport
    support - basic control")
    - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9f7 ("sched: Add
    documentation for bandwidth control")
    - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f35661 ("[SCSI] advansys:
    Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
    - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bdb4 ("[SCSI] bfa: add
    readme file")
    - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10eaf4 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
    driver documentation")
    - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464ebc0 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
    cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
    - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f3c ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
    hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
    - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
    ca77329fb713 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
    - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621deca ("[SCSI] osd:
    Documentation for OSD library")
    - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb111c
    ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
    - serial/driver was part of the initial repo
    - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122ec6 ("n_gsm: add a
    documentation")
    - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build
    Documentation/ sources")
    - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d57 ("KVM: s390:
    diagnose call documentation")
    - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2ccaf ("mm:
    dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
    page")
    - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2ae ("w1: Add
    1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
    - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6f5 ("hdq:
    documentation for OMAP HDQ")
    - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a895 ("x86, doc:
    Documentation for early microcode loading")
    - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade478862 ("x86/doc:
    mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
    - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b50c ("x86-64: Document
    some of entry_64.S")
    - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874c7 ("x86: PAT
    documentation")

    Moved files
    - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
    commit 37b8304642c7 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
    the source code")
    - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
    commit 4172fe2f8a47 ("EFI stub documentation updates")
    - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
    efcfed9bad88 ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
    - commit 5616c23ad9cd ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
    Doc/x86/i386"):
    * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
    * x86/boot.txt
    * x86/zero_page.txt
    - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df191
    ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")

    Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
    - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aadf ("memory.txt: remove
    stray information")
    - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation:
    gpiolib: document new interface")
    - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26dd
    ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
    - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0bb9 ("tty: esp:
    remove broken driver")
    - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f669308 ("[S390] remove tape
    block docu")
    - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2bc ("mm: documentation:
    remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
    - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e81 ("acer-wmi:
    Delete out-of-date documentation")

    Typos/misc issues
    - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
    030d794bf498 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
    authentication.")
    - commit b88cf73d9278 ("net: add missing entries to
    Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
    * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
    * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
    - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f74c ("w1: add
    1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
    - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a407e
    ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")

    Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad
    Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney [rcu bits]
    Acked-by: Rob Landley
    Cc: Jiri Kosina
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Rob Herring
    Cc: David S. Miller
    Cc: Mark Brown
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Gleb Natapov
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Len Brown
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Henrik Austad
     

25 Jan, 2014

1 commit

  • Pull infiniband updates from Roland Dreier:
    "Main batch of InfiniBand/RDMA changes for 3.14:
    - Flow steering for InfiniBand UD traffic
    - IP-based addressing for IBoE aka RoCE
    - Pass SRP submaintainership from Dave to Bart
    - SRP transport fixes from Bart
    - Add the new Cisco usNIC low-level device driver
    - Various other fixes"

    * tag 'rdma-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (75 commits)
    IB/mlx5: Verify reserved fields are cleared
    IB/mlx5: Remove old field for create mkey mailbox
    IB/mlx5: Abort driver cleanup if teardown hca fails
    IB/mlx5: Allow creation of QPs with zero-length work queues
    mlx5_core: Fix PowerPC support
    mlx5_core: Improve debugfs readability
    IB/mlx5: Add support for resize CQ
    IB/mlx5: Implement modify CQ
    IB/mlx5: Make sure doorbell record is visible before doorbell
    mlx5_core: Use mlx5 core style warning
    IB/mlx5: Clear out struct before create QP command
    mlx5_core: Fix out arg size in access_register command
    RDMA/nes: Slight optimization of Ethernet address compare
    IB/qib: Fix QP check when looping back to/from QP1
    RDMA/cxgb4: Fix gcc warning on 32-bit arch
    IB/usnic: Remove unused includes of
    RDMA/amso1100: Add check if cache memory was allocated before freeing it
    IPoIB: Report operstate consistently when brought up without a link
    IB/core: Fix unused variable warning
    RDMA/cma: Handle global/non-linklocal IPv6 addresses in cma_check_linklocal()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

22 Jan, 2014

1 commit


19 Dec, 2013

2 commits

  • The documentation has gone out-of-sync, so update it to
    the current status.

    Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Hannes Reinecke
     
  • After getting warnings in an allyesconfig build[1] from this
    driver, I decided to remind myself just how old it was, and
    whether it warranted fixing. In the Kconfig help text, I found:

    "This driver will eventually be phased out entirely"

    Going back to the history archive, I see the line was added[2]
    in Feb 2002, when we moved from v2.4.2.1 ---> v2.4.2.2

    So, with over a decade of notification, and multiple major releases
    since then, I think we can justify removing this. Currently we have
    people wasting time building it during routine testing, and then
    wasting more time re-researching the known reported warnings, only to
    find that nobody really is willing to integrate the fixes[3] for it.

    A quick search didn't seem to indicate any active user base for it.
    If someone happens to have a quirky _old_ card that the eleven year
    old "new" driver doesn't work with, then it is entirely reasonable
    that they stick with a kernel version that predates this removal.

    [1] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_register’:
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7901:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7898:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_load_seeprom’:
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8517:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8510:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]

    [2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git commit 44e8778c

    [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
    Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke
    Acked-by: Doug Ledford
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Paul Gortmaker
     

16 Sep, 2013

1 commit

  • Pull misc SCSI driver updates from James Bottomley:
    "This patch set is a set of driver updates (megaraid_sas, fnic, lpfc,
    ufs, hpsa) we also have a couple of bug fixes (sd out of bounds and
    ibmvfc error handling) and the first round of esas2r checker fixes and
    finally the much anticipated big endian additions for megaraid_sas"

    * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (47 commits)
    [SCSI] fnic: fnic Driver Tuneables Exposed through CLI
    [SCSI] fnic: Kernel panic while running sh/nosh with max lun cfg
    [SCSI] fnic: Hitting BUG_ON(io_req->abts_done) in fnic_rport_exch_reset
    [SCSI] fnic: Remove QUEUE_FULL handling code
    [SCSI] fnic: On system with >1.1TB RAM, VIC fails multipath after boot up
    [SCSI] fnic: FC stat param seconds_since_last_reset not getting updated
    [SCSI] sd: Fix potential out-of-bounds access
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Update lpfc version to driver version 8.3.42
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed inconsistent spin lock usage.
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fix driver's abort loop functionality to skip IOs already getting aborted
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed failure to allocate SCSI buffer on PPC64 platform for SLI4 devices
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fix WARN_ON when driver unloads
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Avoided making pci bar ioremap call during dual-chute WQ/RQ pci bar selection
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed driver iocbq structure's iocb_flag field running out of space
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fix crash on driver load due to cpu affinity logic
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed logging format of setting driver sysfs attributes hard to interpret
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed back to back RSCNs discovery failure.
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed race condition between BSG I/O dispatch and timeout handling
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed function mode field defined too small for not recognizing dual-chute mode
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

07 Sep, 2013

2 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Adam Radford
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    adam radford
     
  • Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
    "The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
    documentation updates"

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
    doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
    treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
    Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
    Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
    mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
    power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
    doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
    Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
    doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
    treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
    zram: doc fixes
    Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
    doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
    PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
    doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
    scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
    ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
    treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
    page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
    doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

03 Sep, 2013

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25 Jun, 2013

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06 Apr, 2013

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27 Nov, 2012

1 commit


09 Oct, 2012

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24 Sep, 2012

2 commits


15 Sep, 2012

1 commit

  • The device limit of 128 tape drives was established in 2003 as a
    significant increase from the 8 tape drives allowed previously.

    We're seeing customer sites that between a large number of drives
    and multipath are discovering more than 128 devices and running
    into problems.

    Now that we're not stuck having to store a pointer in array
    and aren't limited by kmalloc failing on higher order allocs we can
    lift the limit to fill the entire minor range based on the number
    of modes.

    Based on the current code, that's 2^17 devices.

    Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
    Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Jeff Mahoney
     

24 Aug, 2012

1 commit


24 May, 2012

1 commit

  • 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

    Linus Torvalds
     

18 May, 2012

1 commit

  • 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
    Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

    Paul Gortmaker
     

24 Apr, 2012

1 commit


01 Apr, 2012

1 commit

  • 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]
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

31 Mar, 2012

1 commit

  • 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
    Acked-by: Takashi Iwai
    Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
    Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Lucas De Marchi
     

27 Mar, 2012

2 commits

  • 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
    Acked-by: Kai Makisara
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Lee Duncan
     
  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Vinayak Holikatti
    Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Reviewed-by: Vishak G
    Reviewed-by: Girish K S
    Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Santosh Yaraganavi
     

23 Mar, 2012

1 commit

  • 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
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

07 Mar, 2012

1 commit


21 Feb, 2012

1 commit

  • 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
    Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Masanari Iida
     

20 Feb, 2012

1 commit

  • 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
    Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

    Dan Williams
     

19 Feb, 2012

2 commits


16 Jan, 2012

2 commits


14 Nov, 2011

1 commit


08 Nov, 2011

1 commit


29 Oct, 2011

1 commit

  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (204 commits)
    [SCSI] qla4xxx: export address/port of connection (fix udev disk names)
    [SCSI] ipr: Fix BUG on adapter dump timeout
    [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Fix instance access in megasas_reset_timer
    [SCSI] hpsa: change confusing message to be more clear
    [SCSI] iscsi class: fix vlan configuration
    [SCSI] qla4xxx: fix data alignment and use nl helpers
    [SCSI] iscsi class: fix link local mispelling
    [SCSI] iscsi class: Replace iscsi_get_next_target_id with IDA
    [SCSI] aacraid: use lower snprintf() limit
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.27: Change driver version to 8.3.27
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.27: T10 additions for SLI4
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.27: Fix queue allocation failure recovery
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.27: Change algorithm for getting physical port name
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.27: Changed worst case mailbox timeout
    [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.27: Miscellanous logic and interface fixes
    [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Changelog and version update
    [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add driver workaround for PERC5/1068 kdump kernel panic
    [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add multiple MSI-X vector/multiple reply queue support
    [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Add support for MegaRAID 9360/9380 12GB/s controllers
    [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Clear FUSION_IN_RESET before enabling interrupts
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

17 Oct, 2011

2 commits