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* Merge remote-tracking branch 'mkp-scsi/4.7/scsi-fixes' into fixesJames Bottomley2016-06-181-2/+6
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| * scsi: fix race between simultaneous decrements of ->host_failedWei Fang2016-06-081-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sas_ata_strategy_handler() adds the works of the ata error handler to system_unbound_wq. This workqueue asynchronously runs work items, so the ata error handler will be performed concurrently on different CPUs. In this case, ->host_failed will be decreased simultaneously in scsi_eh_finish_cmd() on different CPUs, and become abnormal. It will lead to permanently inequality between ->host_failed and ->host_busy, and scsi error handler thread won't start running. IO errors after that won't be handled. Since all scmds must have been handled in the strategy handler, just remove the decrement in scsi_eh_finish_cmd() and zero ->host_busy after the strategy handler to fix this race. Fixes: 50824d6c5657 ("[SCSI] libsas: async ata-eh") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <fangwei1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2016-05-281-0/+22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger: "Here are the outstanding target pending updates for v4.7-rc1. The highlights this round include: - Allow external PR/ALUA metadata path be defined at runtime via top level configfs attribute (Lee) - Fix target session shutdown bug for ib_srpt multi-channel (hch) - Make TFO close_session() and shutdown_session() optional (hch) - Drop se_sess->sess_kref + convert tcm_qla2xxx to internal kref (hch) - Add tcm_qla2xxx endpoint attribute for basic FC jammer (Laurence) - Refactor iscsi-target RX/TX PDU encode/decode into common code (Varun) - Extend iscsit_transport with xmit_pdu, release_cmd, get_rx_pdu, validate_parameters, and get_r2t_ttt for generic ISO offload (Varun) - Initial merge of cxgb iscsi-segment offload target driver (Varun) The bulk of the changes are Chelsio's new driver, along with a number of iscsi-target common code improvements made by Varun + Co along the way" * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (29 commits) iscsi-target: Fix early sk_data_ready LOGIN_FLAGS_READY race cxgbit: Use type ISCSI_CXGBIT + cxgbit tpg_np attribute iscsi-target: Convert transport drivers to signal rdma_shutdown iscsi-target: Make iscsi_tpg_np driver show/store use generic code tcm_qla2xxx Add SCSI command jammer/discard capability iscsi-target: graceful disconnect on invalid mapping to iovec target: need_to_release is always false, remove redundant check and kfree target: remove sess_kref and ->shutdown_session iscsi-target: remove usage of ->shutdown_session tcm_qla2xxx: introduce a private sess_kref target: make close_session optional target: make ->shutdown_session optional target: remove acl_stop target: consolidate and fix session shutdown cxgbit: add files for cxgbit.ko iscsi-target: export symbols iscsi-target: call complete on conn_logout_comp iscsi-target: clear tx_thread_active iscsi-target: add new offload transport type iscsi-target: use conn_transport->transport_type in text rsp ...
| * | tcm_qla2xxx Add SCSI command jammer/discard capabilityLaurence Oberman2016-05-101-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces support for TCM_QLA2XXX_DEBUG and associated tcm_qla2xxx_tpg->tpg_attrib.jam_host checking used to test dropped packets to FC host environments. Tested by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
* | | Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2016-05-192-25/+25
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A bit busier this time around. The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using restructured text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better integrated set of kernel docs. Someday. Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees, the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection of corrections, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits) doc: self-protection: provide initial details serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space docproc: abstract docproc directive detection docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes ...
| * | Documentation: fix common spelling mistakesKees Cook2016-04-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Documentation: scsi: fix spelling mistakesEric Engestrom2016-04-281-24/+24
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> [jc: fixed trailing whitespace errors] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | ncr5380: Update usage documentationFinn Thain2016-04-112-13/+15
|/ | | | | | | | | Update kernel parameter documentation for atari_scsi, mac_scsi and g_NCR5380 drivers. Remove duplication. Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
* st: Fix MTMKPART to work with newer drivesKai Makisara2016-02-231-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the MTMKPART operation of the MTIOCTOP ioctl so that it works also with current drives (LTO-5/6, etc.). Send a separate FORMAT MEDIUM command if the partition mode page indicates that this is required. Use LOAD to position the tape at the beginning of tape. The operation is extended so that if the argument is negative, its absolute value specifies the size of partition 0, which is the physically first partition of the tape. Signed-off-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Tested-by: Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@hpe.com> Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
* st: allow debug output to be enabled or disabled via sysfsSeymour, Shane M2015-11-091-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change st driver to allow enabling or disabling debug output via sysfs file /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/st/debug_flag. Previously the only way to enable debug output was: 1. loading the driver with the module parameter debug_flag=1 2. an ioctl call (this method was also the only way to dynamically disable debug output). To use the ioctl you need a second tape drive (if you are actively testing the first tape drive) since a second process cannot open the first tape drive if it is in use. The this change is only functional if the value of the macro DEBUG in st.c is a non-zero value (which it is by default). Signed-off-by: Shane Seymour <shane.seymour@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Laurence Oberman <oberman.l@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
* Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2015-06-251-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull asm/scatterlist.h removal from Jens Axboe: "We don't have any specific arch scatterlist anymore, since parisc finally switched over. Kill the include" * 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: remove scatterlist.h generation from arch Kbuild files remove <asm/scatterlist.h>
* | st: implement tape statisticsSeymour, Shane M2015-06-021-0/+59
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements tape statistics in the st module via sysfs. Current no statistics are available for tape I/O and there is no easy way to reuse the block layer statistics for tape as tape is a character device and does not have perform I/O in sector sized chunks (the size of the data written to tape can change). For tapes we also need extra stats related to things like tape movement (via other I/O). There have been multiple end users requesting statistics including AT&T (and some HP customers who have not given permission to be named). It is impossible for them to investigate any issues related to tape performance in a non-invasive way. [jejb: eliminate PRId64] Signed-off-by: Shane Seymour <shane.seymour@hp.com> Tested-by: Shane Seymour <shane.seymour@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
* genirq: Remove the deprecated 'IRQF_DISABLED' request_irq() flag entirelyValentin Rothberg2015-03-052-29/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IRQF_DISABLED flag is a NOOP and has been scheduled for removal since Linux v2.6.36 by commit 6932bf37bed4 ("genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code"). According to commit e58aa3d2d0cc ("genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled"), running IRQ handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack overflows when the interrupt line of the issuing device is still active. This patch ends the grace period for IRQF_DISABLED (i.e., SA_INTERRUPT in older versions of Linux) and removes the definition and all remaining usages of this flag. There's still a few non-functional references left in the kernel source: - The bigger hunk in Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt is removed entirely as IRQF_DISABLED is gone now; the usage in older kernel versions (including the old SA_INTERRUPT flag) should be discouraged. The trouble of using IRQF_SHARED is a general problem and not specific to any driver. - I left the reference in Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt untouched since it has already been removed in linux-next. - All remaining references are changelogs that I suggest to keep. Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com> Cc: Afzal Mohammed <afzal@ti.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com> Cc: Eyal Perry <eyalpe@mellanox.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Hongliang Tao <taohl@lemote.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@gmail.com> Cc: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Cc: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Cc: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com> Cc: iss_storagedev@hp.com Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425565425-12604-1-git-send-email-valentinrothberg@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-12-121-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree update from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff: documentation updates, printk() fixes, etc" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits) intel_ips: fix a type in error message cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: Move newline to end of error message ps3rom: fix error return code treewide: fix typo in printk and Kconfig ARM: dts: bcm63138: change "interupts" to "interrupts" Replace mentions of "list_struct" to "list_head" kernel: trace: fix printk message scsi: mpt2sas: fix ioctl in comment zbud, zswap: change module author email clocksource: Fix 'clcoksource' typo in comment arm: fix wording of "Crotex" in CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS3 help gpio: msm-v1: make boolean argument more obvious usb: Fix typo in usb-serial-simple.c PCI: Fix comment typo 'COMFIG_PM_OPS' powerpc: Fix comment typo 'CONIFG_8xx' powerpc: Fix comment typos 'CONFiG_ALTIVEC' clk: st: Spelling s/stucture/structure/ isci: Spelling s/stucture/structure/ usb: gadget: zero: Spelling s/infrastucture/infrastructure/ treewide: Fix company name in module descriptions ...
| * Merge Linus' tree to be be to apply submitted patches to newer code thanJiri Kosina2014-11-202-2/+15
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| * | scsi: Fix "choir" and "beeing" malapropsFinn Thain2014-10-291-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | libsas: remove task_collector modeChristoph Hellwig2014-11-271-78/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The task_collector mode (or "latency_injector", (C) Dan Willians) is an optional I/O path in libsas that queues up scsi commands instead of directly sending it to the hardware. It generall increases latencies to in the optiomal case slightly reduce mmio traffic to the hardware. Only the obsolete aic94xx driver and the mvsas driver allowed to use it without recompiling the kernel, and most drivers didn't support it at all. Remove the giant blob of code to allow better optimizations for scsi-mq in the future. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* | | wd719x: Add firmware documentationOndrej Zary2014-11-251-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation and script to obtain required firmware. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | | scsi: drop reason argument from ->change_queue_depthChristoph Hellwig2014-11-241-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drop the now unused reason argument from the ->change_queue_depth method. Also add a return value to scsi_adjust_queue_depth, and rename it to scsi_change_queue_depth now that it can be used as the default ->change_queue_depth implementation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
* | | scsi: don't set tagging state from scsi_adjust_queue_depthChristoph Hellwig2014-11-121-8/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the tagged argument from scsi_adjust_queue_depth, and just let it handle the queue depth. For most drivers those two are fairly separate, given that most modern drivers don't care about the SCSI "tagged" status of a command at all, and many old drivers allow queuing of multiple untagged commands in the driver. Instead we start out with the ->simple_tags flag set before calling ->slave_configure, which is how all drivers actually looking at ->simple_tags except for one worke anyway. The one other case looks broken, but I've kept the behavior as-is for now. Except for that we only change ->simple_tags from the ->change_queue_type, and when rejecting a tag message in a single driver, so keeping this churn out of scsi_adjust_queue_depth is a clear win. Now that the usage of scsi_adjust_queue_depth is more obvious we can also remove all the trivial instances in ->slave_alloc or ->slave_configure that just set it to the cmd_per_lun default. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
* | | scsi: always assign block layer tags if enabledChristoph Hellwig2014-11-121-37/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow a driver to ask for block layer tags by setting .use_blk_tags in the host template, in which case it will always see a valid value in request->tag, similar to the behavior when using blk-mq. This means even SCSI "untagged" commands will now have a tag, which is especially useful when using a host-wide tag map. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
* | | st: add a debug_flag module parameter requestLaurence Oberman2014-11-121-3/+5
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a debug_flag parameter that can be set on module load, and allows the DEBUG facility without a module recompile. Note that now DEBUG 1 is the default with this patch. Usage: modprobe st debug_flag=1 Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kai M??kisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osdLinus Torvalds2014-10-211-2/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull email address change from Boaz Harrosh. * 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd: Boaz Harrosh - fix email in Documentation Boaz Harrosh - Fix broken email address MAINTAINERS: Change Boaz Harrosh's email
| * | Boaz Harrosh - fix email in DocumentationBoaz Harrosh2014-10-191-2/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | I forgot to update Documentation/*.txt Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
* | megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog updateAdam Radford2014-09-161-0/+14
|/ | | | | | | | | The following patch for megaraid_sas updates the driver version and Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas. Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-08-061-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina: "Summer edition of trivial tree updates" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: fix two typos in watchdog-api.txt irq-gic: remove file name from heading comment MAINTAINERS: Add miscdevice.h to file list for char/misc drivers. scsi: mvsas: mv_sas.c: Fix for possible null pointer dereference doc: replace "practise" with "practice" in Documentation befs: remove check for CONFIG_BEFS_RW scsi: doc: fix 'SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY' drivers/usb/phy/phy.c: remove a leading space mfd: fix comment cpuidle: fix comment doc: hpfall.c: fix missing null-terminate after strncpy call usb: doc: hotplug.txt code typos kbuild: fix comment in Makefile.modinst SH: add proper prompt to SH_MAGIC_PANEL_R2_VERSION ARM: msm: Remove MSM_SCM crypto: Remove MPILIB_EXTRA doc: CN: remove dead link, kerneltrap.org no longer works media: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works hexagon: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works doc: LSM: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works ...
| * scsi: doc: fix 'SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY'Paul Bolle2014-06-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | scsi: Remove CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUNHannes Reinecke2014-07-171-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Obsolete; either use 'max_lun' if the host supports only a limited number of LUNs or BLIST_NOLUN if the target has problems addressing more than one LUN. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* | qla2xxx: Change copyright year to 2014 in all the source files.Armen Baloyan2014-05-191-1/+1
|/ | | | | | Signed-off-by: Armen Baloyan <armen.baloyan@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog updateadam radford2014-03-151-0/+13
| | | | | | | | The following patch for megaraid_sas updates the driver version to v06.803.01.00-rc1, and updates Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas. Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* Documentation/: update 00-INDEX filesHenrik Austad2014-02-101-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <henrik@austad.us> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits] Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'rdma-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-242-0/+33
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 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 <linux/version.h> 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() ...
| * scsi_transport_srp: Add rport state diagramBart Van Assche2014-01-212-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a diagram in Documentation/scsi/scsi_transport_srp that illustrates the rport state transitions. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
* | [SCSI] Update documentationHannes Reinecke2013-12-192-32/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation has gone out-of-sync, so update it to the current status. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* | [SCSI] aci7xxx_old: delete decade+ obsolete driverPaul Gortmaker2013-12-192-513/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds2013-09-151-0/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog updateadam radford2013-09-061-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-09-061-1/+1
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 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 ...
| * Documentation/scsi/hptiop.txt fix a typoStefan Huber2013-08-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Corrected the word ponter to pointer. Signed-off-by: Stefan Huber <steffhip@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matthias Schid <aircrach115@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Puels <simon.puels@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update Copyright headerVikas Chaudhary2013-09-031-1/+1
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Changelog and driver version updateSumit.Saxena@lsi.com2013-06-241-0/+22
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update copyright dates information in LICENSE.qla2xxx file.Saurav Kashyap2013-04-061-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog updateadam radford2013-02-221-0/+9
| | | | | | | | This patch updates the megaraid_sas driver version and updates Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas. Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] hptiop: Support HighPoint RR4520/RR4522 HBAHighPoint Linux Team2012-11-271-4/+65
| | | | | | | Support IOP RR4520/RR4522 which are based on Marvell frey. Signed-off-by: HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version, Changelog, Copyright updateadam radford2012-10-091-0/+13
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] qla4xxx: update copyrights in LICENSE.qla4xxxVikas Chaudhary2012-09-241-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update the driver copyright.Chad Dupuis2012-09-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Update the driver copyright from 2003-2011 to 2003-2012. Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] st: raise device limitJeff Mahoney2012-09-141-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <lduncan@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* [SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog updateadam radford2012-08-241-0/+10
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
* Merge branch 'delete-mca' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-05-234-1411/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 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
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