linux-stable.git/Documentation/scsi, branch linux-4.20.y

Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

2018-10-25T14:40:30+00:00

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates of the usual drivers: UFS, esp_scsi, NCR5380,
  qla2xxx, lpfc, libsas, hisi_sas.

  In addition there's a set of mostly small updates to the target
  subsystem a set of conversions to the generic DMA API, which do have
  some potential for issues in the older drivers but we'll handle those
  as case by case fixes.

  A new myrs driver for the DAC960/mylex raid controllers to replace the
  block based DAC960 which is also being removed by Jens in this merge
  window.

  Plus the usual slew of trivial changes"

[ "myrs" stands for "MYlex Raid Scsi". Obviously. Silly of me to even
  wonder. There's also a "myrb" driver, where the 'b' stands for
  'block'. Truly, somebody has got mad naming skillz. - Linus ]

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (237 commits)
  scsi: myrs: Fix the processor absent message in processor_show()
  scsi: myrs: Fix a logical vs bitwise bug
  scsi: hisi_sas: Fix NULL pointer dereference
  scsi: myrs: fix build failure on 32 bit
  scsi: fnic: replace gross legacy tag hack with blk-mq hack
  scsi: mesh: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: ips: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: smartpqi: fully convert to the generic DMA API
  scsi: vmw_pscsi: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: snic: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: qla4xxx: fully convert to the generic DMA API
  scsi: qla2xxx: fully convert to the generic DMA API
  scsi: qla1280: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: qedi: fully convert to the generic DMA API
  scsi: qedf: fully convert to the generic DMA API
  scsi: pm8001: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: nsp32: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: mvsas: fully convert to the generic DMA API
  scsi: mvumi: switch to generic DMA API
  scsi: mpt3sas: switch to generic DMA API
  ...

Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-10-24T17:01:11+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
  readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
  updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
  unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
  from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
  fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
  docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
  docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
  kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
  doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
  docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
  doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
  Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
  dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
  docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
  LICENSES: Add ISC license text
  LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
  docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
  docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
  docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
  yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
  docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
  docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
  doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
  docs: fix some broken documentation references
  iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
  ...

scsi: ufs: Add a bsg endpoint that supports UPIUs

2018-10-11T03:09:46+00:00

For now, just provide an API to allocate and remove ufs-bsg node. We
will use this framework to manage ufs devices by sending UPIU
transactions.

For the time being, implements an empty bsg_request() - will add some
more functionality in coming patches.

Nonetheless, we reveal here the protocol we are planning to use: UFS
Transport Protocol Transactions. UFS transactions consist of packets
called UFS Protocol Information Units (UPIU).

There are UPIU’s defined for UFS SCSI commands, responses, data in and
data out, task management, utility functions, vendor functions,
transaction synchronization and control, and more.

By using UPIUs, we get access to the most fine-grained internals of this
protocol, and able to communicate with the device in ways, that are
sometimes beyond the capacity of the ufs driver.

Moreover and as a result, our core structure - ufs_bsg_node has a pretty
lean structure: using upiu transactions that contains the outmost
detailed info, so we don't really need complex constructs to support it.

Signed-off-by: Avri Altman 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

2018-09-09T21:08:58+00:00

This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.

The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)

A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.

A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.

List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)

Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).

I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.

As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad 
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt 
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Paul Moore 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: Mark Brown 
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

scsi: documentation: add scsi_mod.use_blk_mq to scsi-parameters

2018-08-27T16:26:10+00:00

Kernel line argument scsi_mod.use_blk_mq is missing from file
Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt.  Add this option, providing
mention of config setting and format.

[mkp: clarified where to look]

Signed-off-by: John Pittman 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

block: remove BLK_EH_HANDLED

2018-05-29T14:59:21+00:00

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: rename BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED to BLK_EH_DONE

2018-05-29T14:59:21+00:00

The BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED implies nothing happen, but very often that
is not what is happening - instead the driver already completed the
command.  Fix the symbolic name to reflect that a little better.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

scsi: documentation: Obsolete documentation references

2018-03-21T22:34:20+00:00

Remove references to fdomain, ncr53c400a, tmscsim, and DAC960 from
Documentation/scsi.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: remove the old scsi_module.c initialization model

2018-03-20T02:54:47+00:00

After more than 15 years all users of this legacy interface are finally
gone.  Rest in peace!

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

scsi: remove the sym53c416 driver

2018-03-20T02:54:47+00:00

This driver hasn't seen any recent bug fixing and is one of the last
drivers using the scsi_module.c infrastruture that has been deprecated
15 years ago.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen