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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/scsi/Makefile, branch linux-3.18.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>xen-scsifront: Add Xen PV SCSI frontend driver</title>
<updated>2014-09-23T13:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-28T04:44:11+00:00</published>
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Introduces the Xen pvSCSI frontend. With pvSCSI it is possible for a
Xen domU to issue SCSI commands to a SCSI LUN assigned to that
domU. The SCSI commands are passed to the pvSCSI backend in a driver
domain (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device. This
allows e.g. to use SCSI tape drives in a Xen domU.

The code is taken from the pvSCSI implementation in Xen done by
Fujitsu based on Linux kernel 2.6.18.

Changes from the original version are:
- port to upstream kernel
- put all code in just one source file
- move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
- adapt to Linux style guide
- some minor code simplifications
- replace constants with defines
- remove not used defines
- add support for larger SG lists by putting them in a granted page

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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Introduces the Xen pvSCSI frontend. With pvSCSI it is possible for a
Xen domU to issue SCSI commands to a SCSI LUN assigned to that
domU. The SCSI commands are passed to the pvSCSI backend in a driver
domain (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device. This
allows e.g. to use SCSI tape drives in a Xen domU.

The code is taken from the pvSCSI implementation in Xen done by
Fujitsu based on Linux kernel 2.6.18.

Changes from the original version are:
- port to upstream kernel
- put all code in just one source file
- move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
- adapt to Linux style guide
- some minor code simplifications
- replace constants with defines
- remove not used defines
- add support for larger SG lists by putting them in a granted page

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tgt: removal</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T20:07:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-15T10:26:52+00:00</published>
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Now that the ibmvstgt driver as the only user of scsi_tgt is gone, the
scsi_tgt kernel module, the CONFIG_SCSI_TGT, CONFIG_SCSI_SRP_TGT_ATTRS and
CONFIG_SCSI_FC_TGT_ATTRS kbuild variable, the scsi_host_template
transfer_response method are no longer needed.

[hch: minor updates to the current tree, changelog update]

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
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Now that the ibmvstgt driver as the only user of scsi_tgt is gone, the
scsi_tgt kernel module, the CONFIG_SCSI_TGT, CONFIG_SCSI_SRP_TGT_ATTRS and
CONFIG_SCSI_FC_TGT_ATTRS kbuild variable, the scsi_host_template
transfer_response method are no longer needed.

[hch: minor updates to the current tree, changelog update]

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libsrp: removal</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T20:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-15T10:26:51+00:00</published>
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Remove the libsrp module which was only used by the now removed ibmvstgt
driver.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
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Remove the libsrp module which was only used by the now removed ibmvstgt
driver.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ibmvstgt: remove</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T20:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-15T10:26:50+00:00</published>
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The IBM virtual SCSI protocol has been obsoleted by ibmvfc, and there
are no reported of the driver left.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
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The IBM virtual SCSI protocol has been obsoleted by ibmvfc, and there
are no reported of the driver left.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] aci7xxx_old: delete decade+ obsolete driver</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T15:39:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T14:18:00+00:00</published>
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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 ---&gt; 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 &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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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 ---&gt; 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 &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] esas2r: ATTO Technology ExpressSAS 6G SAS/SATA RAID Adapter Driver</title>
<updated>2013-09-03T14:27:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bradley Grove</name>
<email>bgrove@attotech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-23T14:35:45+00:00</published>
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This is a new driver for ATTO Technology's ExpressSAS series of hardware RAID
adapters.  It supports the following adapters:

    - ExpressSAS R60F
    - ExpressSAS R680
    - ExpressSAS R608
    - ExpressSAS R644

Signed-off-by: Bradley Grove &lt;bgrove@attotech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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This is a new driver for ATTO Technology's ExpressSAS series of hardware RAID
adapters.  It supports the following adapters:

    - ExpressSAS R60F
    - ExpressSAS R680
    - ExpressSAS R608
    - ExpressSAS R644

Signed-off-by: Bradley Grove &lt;bgrove@attotech.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] mpt3sas: add new driver supporting 12GB SAS</title>
<updated>2012-12-01T10:09:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sreekanth Reddy</name>
<email>Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-30T02:14:21+00:00</published>
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These driver files are initially, substantially similar to mpt2sas but,
because mpt2sas is going into maintenance mode and mp3sas will become heavily
developed, we elected to keep the code bases separate.

Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy &lt;Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama &lt;Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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These driver files are initially, substantially similar to mpt2sas but,
because mpt2sas is going into maintenance mode and mp3sas will become heavily
developed, we elected to keep the code bases separate.

Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy &lt;Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama &lt;Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver</title>
<updated>2012-11-27T05:00:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naresh Kumar Inna</name>
<email>naresh@chelsio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-15T17:11:18+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Naresh Kumar Inna &lt;naresh@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
</content>
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Signed-off-by: Naresh Kumar Inna &lt;naresh@chelsio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SCSI] Remove scsi_wait_scan module</title>
<updated>2012-07-20T07:58:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Bottomley</name>
<email>JBottomley@Parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-27T09:13:46+00:00</published>
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scsi_wait_scan was introduced with asynchronous host scanning as a hack
for distributions that weren't using proper udev based wait for root to
appear in their initramfs scripts.  In 2.6.30 Commit

c751085943362143f84346d274e0011419c84202
Author: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Date:   Sun Apr 12 20:06:56 2009 +0200

    PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume

Actually broke scsi_wait_scan because it renders
scsi_complete_async_scans() a nop for modular SCSI if you include
scsi_scans.h (which this module does).

The lack of bug reports is sufficient proof that this module is no
longer used.

Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: maximilian attems &lt;max@stro.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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<pre>
scsi_wait_scan was introduced with asynchronous host scanning as a hack
for distributions that weren't using proper udev based wait for root to
appear in their initramfs scripts.  In 2.6.30 Commit

c751085943362143f84346d274e0011419c84202
Author: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Date:   Sun Apr 12 20:06:56 2009 +0200

    PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume

Actually broke scsi_wait_scan because it renders
scsi_complete_async_scans() a nop for modular SCSI if you include
scsi_scans.h (which this module does).

The lack of bug reports is sufficient proof that this module is no
longer used.

Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: maximilian attems &lt;max@stro.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code</title>
<updated>2012-05-17T23:03:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-17T00:33:52+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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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 &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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