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authorJames Bottomley <jejb@titanic.(none)>2005-06-17 19:42:23 -0400
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@titanic.(none)>2005-06-17 19:42:23 -0400
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tree4c94e70ab846ffcb8bb5715fb3c8d8473358a323 /Documentation/scsi
parent9ee1c939d1cb936b1f98e8d81aeffab57bae46ab (diff)
parentdf0ae2497ddefd72a87f3a3b34ff32455d7d4ae0 (diff)
merge by hand (fix up qla_os.c merge error)
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid66
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt180
-rw-r--r--Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt12
3 files changed, 250 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid
index a9356c63b800..5331d91432c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid
@@ -1,3 +1,69 @@
1Release Date : Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
2Current Version : 2.20.4.6 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
3Older Version : 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
4
51. Added IOCTL backward compatibility.
6 Convert megaraid_mm driver to new compat_ioctl entry points.
7 I don't have easy access to hardware, so only compile tested.
8 - Signed-off-by:Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
9
102. megaraid_mbox fix: wrong order of arguments in memset()
11 That, BTW, shows why cross-builds are useful-the only indication of
12 problem had been a new warning showing up in sparse output on alpha
13 build (number of exceeding 256 got truncated).
14 - Signed-off-by: Al Viro
15 <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
16
173. Convert pci_module_init to pci_register_driver
18 Convert from pci_module_init to pci_register_driver
19 (from:http://kerneljanitors.org/TODO)
20 - Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
21
224. Use the pre defined DMA mask constants from dma-mapping.h
23 Use the DMA_{64,32}BIT_MASK constants from dma-mapping.h when calling
24 pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistend_dma_mask(). See
25 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for more
26 details.
27 Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
28 Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
29
305. Remove SSID checking for Dobson, Lindsay, and Verde based products.
31 Checking the SSVID/SSID for controllers which have Dobson, Lindsay,
32 and Verde is unnecessary because device ID has been assigned by LSI
33 and it is unique value. So, all controllers with these IOPs have to be
34 supported by the driver regardless SSVID/SSID.
35
366. Date Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:31:09 +0100
37 From Herbert Poetzl <>
38 Subject RFC: assert_spin_locked() for 2.6
39
40 Greetings!
41
42 overcautious programming will kill your kernel ;)
43 ever thought about checking a spin_lock or even
44 asserting that it must be held (maybe just for
45 spinlock debugging?) ...
46
47 there are several checks present in the kernel
48 where somebody does a variation on the following:
49
50 BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&some_lock));
51
52 so what's wrong about that? nothing, unless you
53 compile the code with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK but
54 without CONFIG_SMP ... in which case the BUG()
55 will kill your kernel ...
56
57 maybe it's not advised to make such assertions,
58 but here is a solution which works for me ...
59 (compile tested for sh, x86_64 and x86, boot/run
60 tested for x86 only)
61
62 best,
63 Herbert
64
65 - Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>, Thu, 27 Jan 2005
66
1Release Date : Thu Feb 03 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com> 67Release Date : Thu Feb 03 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
2Current Version : 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module) 68Current Version : 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
3Older Version : 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module) 69Older Version : 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c132687b017a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
1
2README for the SCSI media changer driver
3========================================
4
5This is a driver for SCSI Medium Changer devices, which are listed
6with "Type: Medium Changer" in /proc/scsi/scsi.
7
8This is for *real* Jukeboxes. It is *not* supported to work with
9common small CD-ROM changers, neither one-lun-per-slot SCSI changers
10nor IDE drives.
11
12Userland tools available from here:
13 http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/changer.html
14
15
16General Information
17-------------------
18
19First some words about how changers work: A changer has 2 (possibly
20more) SCSI ID's. One for the changer device which controls the robot,
21and one for the device which actually reads and writes the data. The
22later may be anything, a MOD, a CD-ROM, a tape or whatever. For the
23changer device this is a "don't care", he *only* shuffles around the
24media, nothing else.
25
26
27The SCSI changer model is complex, compared to - for example - IDE-CD
28changers. But it allows to handle nearly all possible cases. It knows
294 different types of changer elements:
30
31 media transport - this one shuffles around the media, i.e. the
32 transport arm. Also known as "picker".
33 storage - a slot which can hold a media.
34 import/export - the same as above, but is accessable from outside,
35 i.e. there the operator (you !) can use this to
36 fill in and remove media from the changer.
37 Sometimes named "mailslot".
38 data transfer - this is the device which reads/writes, i.e. the
39 CD-ROM / Tape / whatever drive.
40
41None of these is limited to one: A huge Jukebox could have slots for
42123 CD-ROM's, 5 CD-ROM readers (and therefore 6 SCSI ID's: the changer
43and each CD-ROM) and 2 transport arms. No problem to handle.
44
45
46How it is implemented
47---------------------
48
49I implemented the driver as character device driver with a NetBSD-like
50ioctl interface. Just grabbed NetBSD's header file and one of the
51other linux SCSI device drivers as starting point. The interface
52should be source code compatible with NetBSD. So if there is any
53software (anybody knows ???) which supports a BSDish changer driver,
54it should work with this driver too.
55
56Over time a few more ioctls where added, volume tag support for example
57wasn't covered by the NetBSD ioctl API.
58
59
60Current State
61-------------
62
63Support for more than one transport arm is not implemented yet (and
64nobody asked for it so far...).
65
66I test and use the driver myself with a 35 slot cdrom jukebox from
67Grundig. I got some reports telling it works ok with tape autoloaders
68(Exabyte, HP and DEC). Some People use this driver with amanda. It
69works fine with small (11 slots) and a huge (4 MOs, 88 slots)
70magneto-optical Jukebox. Probably with lots of other changers too, most
71(but not all :-) people mail me only if it does *not* work...
72
73I don't have any device lists, neither black-list nor white-list. Thus
74it is quite useless to ask me whenever a specific device is supported or
75not. In theory every changer device which supports the SCSI-2 media
76changer command set should work out-of-the-box with this driver. If it
77doesn't, it is a bug. Either within the driver or within the firmware
78of the changer device.
79
80
81Using it
82--------
83
84This is a character device with major number is 86, so use
85"mknod /dev/sch0 c 86 0" to create the special file for the driver.
86
87If the module finds the changer, it prints some messages about the
88device [ try "dmesg" if you don't see anything ] and should show up in
89/proc/devices. If not.... some changers use ID ? / LUN 0 for the
90device and ID ? / LUN 1 for the robot mechanism. But Linux does *not*
91look for LUN's other than 0 as default, becauce there are to many
92broken devices. So you can try:
93
94 1) echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 ID 1" > /proc/scsi/scsi
95 (replace ID with the SCSI-ID of the device)
96 2) boot the kernel with "max_scsi_luns=1" on the command line
97 (append="max_scsi_luns=1" in lilo.conf should do the trick)
98
99
100Trouble?
101--------
102
103If you insmod the driver with "insmod debug=1", it will be verbose and
104prints a lot of stuff to the syslog. Compiling the kernel with
105CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y improves the quality of the error messages alot
106because the kernel will translate the error codes into human-readable
107strings then.
108
109You can display these messages with the dmesg command (or check the
110logfiles). If you email me some question becauce of a problem with the
111driver, please include these messages.
112
113
114Insmod options
115--------------
116
117debug=0/1
118 Enable debug messages (see above, default: 0).
119
120verbose=0/1
121 Be verbose (default: 1).
122
123init=0/1
124 Send INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS command to the changer
125 at insmod time (default: 1).
126
127timeout_init=<seconds>
128 timeout for the INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS command
129 (default: 3600).
130
131timeout_move=<seconds>
132 timeout for all other commands (default: 120).
133
134dt_id=<id1>,<id2>,...
135dt_lun=<lun1>,<lun2>,...
136 These two allow to specify the SCSI ID and LUN for the data
137 transfer elements. You likely don't need this as the jukebox
138 should provide this information. But some devices don't ...
139
140vendor_firsts=
141vendor_counts=
142vendor_labels=
143 These insmod options can be used to tell the driver that there
144 are some vendor-specific element types. Grundig for example
145 does this. Some jukeboxes have a printer to label fresh burned
146 CDs, which is addressed as element 0xc000 (type 5). To tell the
147 driver about this vendor-specific element, use this:
148 $ insmod ch \
149 vendor_firsts=0xc000 \
150 vendor_counts=1 \
151 vendor_labels=printer
152 All three insmod options accept up to four comma-separated
153 values, this way you can configure the element types 5-8.
154 You likely need the SCSI specs for the device in question to
155 find the correct values as they are not covered by the SCSI-2
156 standard.
157
158
159Credits
160-------
161
162I wrote this driver using the famous mailing-patches-around-the-world
163method. With (more or less) help from:
164
165 Daniel Moehwald <moehwald@hdg.de>
166 Dane Jasper <dane@sonic.net>
167 R. Scott Bailey <sbailey@dsddi.eds.com>
168 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
169
170Special thanks go to
171 Martin Kuehne <martin.kuehne@bnbt.de>
172for a old, second-hand (but full functional) cdrom jukebox which I use
173to develop/test driver and tools now.
174
175Have fun,
176
177 Gerd
178
179--
180Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
index e41703d7d24d..da176c95d0fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
@@ -936,8 +936,7 @@ Details:
936 * 936 *
937 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED 937 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED
938 * 938 *
939 * Locks: struct Scsi_Host::host_lock held (with irqsave) on entry 939 * Locks: None held
940 * and assumed to be held on return.
941 * 940 *
942 * Calling context: kernel thread 941 * Calling context: kernel thread
943 * 942 *
@@ -955,8 +954,7 @@ Details:
955 * 954 *
956 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED 955 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED
957 * 956 *
958 * Locks: struct Scsi_Host::host_lock held (with irqsave) on entry 957 * Locks: None held
959 * and assumed to be held on return.
960 * 958 *
961 * Calling context: kernel thread 959 * Calling context: kernel thread
962 * 960 *
@@ -974,8 +972,7 @@ Details:
974 * 972 *
975 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED 973 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED
976 * 974 *
977 * Locks: struct Scsi_Host::host_lock held (with irqsave) on entry 975 * Locks: None held
978 * and assumed to be held on return.
979 * 976 *
980 * Calling context: kernel thread 977 * Calling context: kernel thread
981 * 978 *
@@ -993,8 +990,7 @@ Details:
993 * 990 *
994 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED 991 * Returns SUCCESS if command aborted else FAILED
995 * 992 *
996 * Locks: struct Scsi_Host::host_lock held (with irqsave) on entry 993 * Locks: None held
997 * and assumed to be held on return.
998 * 994 *
999 * Calling context: kernel thread 995 * Calling context: kernel thread
1000 * 996 *