On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:28:16 +0200 api wrote:

> Good day,
> When doing make menuconfig one comes across CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD.
> The help file states that this is for scsi disks.NO MENTION IS MADE THAT
> IT IS NEEDE FOR SATA DISKS AS WELL!
> Would have saved me a lot of time if the help was up to date.
> I hope this can be changed so others can make a kernel for sata systems
> quicker.

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Add help info for BLK_DEV_SD referring to its use in
SATA or PATA driver configurations.

Add help text for "ATA" indicating that it probably needs
some SCSI config symbols enabled in order to be useful.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Reported by Meelis Roos.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (38 commits)
  kconfig: fix mconf segmentation fault
  kbuild: enable use of code from a different dir
  kconfig: error out if recursive dependencies are found
  kbuild: scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death
  kconfig: correct minor typo in Kconfig warning message.
  kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
  usr/Kconfig: fix typo
  kernel-doc: alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs'
  kbuild: be more explicit on missing .config file
  kbuild: clarify the creation of the LOCALVERSION_AUTO string.
  kbuild: propagate errors from find in scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
  kconfig: refer to qt3 if we cannot find qt libraries
  kbuild: handle compressed cpio initramfs-es
  kbuild: ignore section mismatch warning for references from .paravirtprobe to .init.text
  kbuild: remove stale comment in modpost.c
  kbuild/mkuboot.sh: allow spaces in CROSS_COMPILE
  kbuild: fix make mrproper for Documentation/DocBook/man
  kbuild: remove kconfig binaries during make mrproper
  kconfig/menuconfig: do not hardcode '.config'
  kbuild: override build timestamp & version
  ...

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (87 commits)
  [SCSI] fusion: fix domain validation loops
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: fix regression on sparc64
  [SCSI] modalias for scsi devices
  [SCSI] sg: cap reserved_size values at max_sectors
  [SCSI] BusLogic: stop using check_region
  [SCSI] tgt: fix rdma transfer bugs
  [SCSI] aacraid: fix aacraid not finding device
  [SCSI] aacraid: Correct SMC products in aacraid.txt
  [SCSI] scsi_error.c: Add EH Start Unit retry
  [SCSI] aacraid: [Fastboot] Panics for AACRAID driver during 'insmod' for kexec test.
  [SCSI] ipr: Driver version to 2.3.2
  [SCSI] ipr: Faster sg list fetch
  [SCSI] ipr: Return better qc_issue errors
  [SCSI] ipr: Disrupt device error
  [SCSI] ipr: Improve async error logging level control
  [SCSI] ipr: PCI unblock config access fix
  [SCSI] ipr: Fix for oops following SATA request sense
  [SCSI] ipr: Log error for SAS dual path switch
  [SCSI] ipr: Enable logging of debug error data for all devices
  [SCSI] ipr: Add new PCI-E IDs to device table
  ...

SCSI should be working on a TT (but someone should really try!) but causes
trouble on a Falcon (as in: it ate a filesystem of mine) at least when
used concurrently with IDE. I have the notion it's because locking of the
ST-DMA interrupt by IDE is broken in 2.6 (the IDE driver always complains
about trying to release an already-released ST-DMA). Needs more work, but
that's on the IDE or m68k interrupt side rather than SCSI.

Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Documentation/modules.txt doesn't exist, but
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt does.

Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Major features:

1) Tagged queuing support.
2) Will properly negotiate for synchronous transfers even on
   devices that reject the wide negotiation message, such as
   CDROMs
3) Significantly lower kernel stack usage in interrupt
   handler path by elimination of function vector arrays,
   replaced by a top-level switch statement state machine.
4) Uses generic scsi infrastructure as much as possible to
   avoid code duplication.
5) Automatic request of sense data in response to CHECK_CONDITION
6) Portable to other platforms using ESP such as DEC and Sun3
   systems.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Remove the unused SCSI-related kernel config variables

	SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE_SUPPORT
	SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE
	53C700_IO_MAPPED
	AIC79XX_ENABLE_RD_STRM
	AIC7XXX_PROBE_EISA_VL

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>