xref: /linux/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid (revision 60b2737de1b1ddfdb90f3ba622634eb49d6f3603)
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
67Release Date	: Thu Feb 03 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
68Current Version	: 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
69Older Version	: 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
70
711.	Modified name of two attributes in scsi_host_template.
72	On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:56 -0500, Ju, Seokmann wrote:
73	> +	.sdev_attrs			= megaraid_device_attrs,
74	> +	.shost_attrs			= megaraid_class_device_attrs,
75
76	These are, perhaps, slightly confusing names.
77	The terms device and class_device have well defined meanings in the
78	generic device model, neither of which is what you mean here.
79	Why not simply megaraid_sdev_attrs and megaraid_shost_attrs?
80
81	Other than this, it looks fine to me too.
82
83Release Date	: Thu Jan 27 00:01:03 EST 2005 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
84Current Version	: 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
85Older Version	: 2.20.4.3 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
86
871.	Bump up the version of scsi module due to its conflict.
88
89Release Date	: Thu Jan 21 00:01:03 EST 2005 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
90Current Version	: 2.20.4.3 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
91Older Version	: 2.20.4.2 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
92
931.	Remove driver ioctl for logical drive to scsi address translation and
94	replace with the sysfs attribute. To remove drives and change
95	capacity, application shall now use the device attribute to get the
96	logical drive number for a scsi device. For adding newly created
97	logical drives, class device attribute would be required to uniquely
98	identify each controller.
99		- Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
100
101	"James, I've been thinking about this a little more, and you may be on
102	to something here. Let each driver add files as such:"
103
104		- Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, 12.15.2004
105		 linux-scsi mailing list
106
107
108	"Then, if you simply publish your LD number as an extra parameter of
109	the device, you can look through /sys to find it."
110
111		- James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 01.03.2005
112		 linux-scsi mailing list
113
114
115	"I don't see why not ... it's your driver, you can publish whatever
116	extra information you need as scsi_device attributes; that was one of
117	the designs of the extensible attribute system."
118
119		- James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 01.06.2005
120		 linux-scsi mailing list
121
1222.	Add AMI megaraid support - Brian King <brking@charter.net>
123		PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMI_MEGARAID3,
124		PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMI, PCI_SUBSYS_ID_PERC3_DC,
125
1263.	Make some code static - Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
127	Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:14:57 +0100
128
129	The patch below makes some needlessly global code static.
130	-wait_queue_head_t wait_q;
131	+static wait_queue_head_t wait_q;
132
133	Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
134
1354.	Added NEC ROMB support - NEC MegaRAID PCI Express ROMB controller
136		PCI_VENDOR_ID_LSI_LOGIC, PCI_DEVICE_ID_MEGARAID_NEC_ROMB_2E,
137		PCI_SUBSYS_ID_NEC, PCI_SUBSYS_ID_MEGARAID_NEC_ROMB_2E,
138
1395.	Fixed Tape drive issue : For any Direct CDB command to physical device
140	including tape, timeout value set by driver was 10 minutes. With this
141	value, most of command will return within timeout. However, for those
142	command like ERASE or FORMAT, it takes more than an hour depends on
143	capacity of the device and the command could be terminated before it
144	completes.
145	To address this issue, the 'timeout' field in the DCDB command will
146	have NO TIMEOUT (i.e., 4) value as its timeout on DCDB command.
147
148
149
150Release Date	: Thu Dec  9 19:10:23 EST 2004
151	- Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
152
153Current Version	: 2.20.4.2 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
154Older Version	: 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.3 (cmm module)
155
156i.	Introduced driver ioctl that returns scsi address for a given ld.
157
158	"Why can't the existing sysfs interfaces be used to do this?"
159		- Brian King (brking@us.ibm.com)
160
161	"I've looked into solving this another way, but I cannot see how
162	to get this driver-private mapping of logical drive number-> HCTL
163	without putting code something like this into the driver."
164
165	"...and by providing a mapping a function to userspace, the driver
166	is free to change its mapping algorithm in the future if necessary .."
167		- Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com)
168
169Release Date	: Thu Dec  9 19:02:14 EST 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
170
171Current Version	: 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.3 (cmm module)
172Older Version	: 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.2 (cmm module)
173
174i.	Fix a bug in kioc's dma buffer deallocation
175
176Release Date	: Thu Nov  4 18:24:56 EST 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
177
178Current Version	: 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.2 (cmm module)
179Older Version	: 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.1 (cmm module)
180
181i.	Handle IOCTL cmd timeouts more properly.
182
183ii.	pci_dma_sync_{sg,single}_for_cpu was introduced into megaraid_mbox
184	incorrectly (instead of _for_device). Changed to appropriate
185	pci_dma_sync_{sg,single}_for_device.
186
187Release Date	: Wed Oct 06 11:15:29 EDT 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
188Current Version	: 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.1 (cmm module)
189Older Version	: 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
190
191i.	Remove CONFIG_COMPAT around register_ioctl32_conversion
192
193Release Date	: Mon Sep 27 22:15:07 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
194Current Version	: 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
195Older Version	: 2.20.3.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
196
197i.	Fix data corruption. Because of a typo in the driver, the IO packets
198	were wrongly shared by the ioctl path. This causes a whole IO command
199	to be replaced by an incoming ioctl command.
200
201Release Date	: Tue Aug 24 09:43:35 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
202Current Version	: 2.20.3.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
203Older Version	: 2.20.3.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
204
205i.	Function reordering so that inline functions are defined before they
206	are actually used. It is now mandatory for GCC 3.4.1 (current stable)
207
208	Declare some heavy-weight functions to be non-inlined,
209	megaraid_mbox_build_cmd, megaraid_mbox_runpendq,
210	megaraid_mbox_prepare_pthru, megaraid_mbox_prepare_epthru,
211	megaraid_busywait_mbox
212
213		- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, 08.19.2004
214		linux-scsi mailing list
215
216	"Something else to clean up after inclusion: every instance of an
217	inline function is actually rendered as a full function call, because
218	the function is always used before it is defined.  Atul, please
219	re-arrange the code to eliminate the need for most (all) of the
220	function prototypes at the top of each file, and define (not just
221	declare with a prototype) each inline function before its first use"
222
223		- Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, 07.27.2004
224		linux-scsi mailing list
225
226
227ii.	Display elapsed time (countdown) while waiting for FW to boot.
228
229iii.	Module compilation reorder in Makefile so that unresolved symbols do
230	not occur when driver is compiled non-modular.
231
232		Patrick J. LoPresti <patl@users.sourceforge.net>, 8.22.2004
233		linux-scsi mailing list
234
235
236Release Date	: Thu Aug 19 09:58:33 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
237Current Version	: 2.20.3.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
238Older Version	: 2.20.2.0 (scsi module), 2.20.1.0 (cmm module)
239
240i.	When copying the mailbox packets, copy only first 14 bytes (for 32-bit
241	mailboxes) and only first 22 bytes (for 64-bit mailboxes). This is to
242	avoid getting the stale values for busy bit. We want to set the busy
243	bit just before issuing command to the FW.
244
245ii.	In the reset handling, if the reseted command is not owned by the
246	driver, do not (wrongly) print information for the "attached" driver
247	packet.
248
249iii.	Have extended wait when issuing command in synchronous mode. This is
250	required for the cases where the option ROM is disabled and there is
251	no BIOS to start the controller. The FW starts to boot after receiving
252	the first command from the driver. The current driver has 1 second
253	timeout for the synchronous commands, which is far less than what is
254	actually required. We now wait up to MBOX_RESET_TIME (180 seconds) for
255	FW boot process.
256
257iv.	In megaraid_mbox_product_info, clear the mailbox contents completely
258	before preparing the command for inquiry3. This is to ensure that the
259	FW does not get junk values in the command.
260
261v.	Do away with the redundant LSI_CONFIG_COMPAT redefinition for
262	CONFIG_COMPAT. Replace <asm/ioctl32.h> with <linux/ioctl32.h>
263
264		- James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 08.17.2004
265		 linux-scsi mailing list
266
267vi.	Add support for 64-bit applications. Current drivers assume only
268	32-bit applications, even on 64-bit platforms. Use the "data" and
269	"buffer" fields of the mimd_t structure, instead of embedded 32-bit
270	addresses in application mailbox and passthru structures.
271
272vii.	Move the function declarations for the management module from
273	megaraid_mm.h to megaraid_mm.c
274
275		- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, 08.19.2004
276		linux-scsi mailing list
277
278viii.	Change default values for MEGARAID_NEWGEN, MEGARAID_MM, and
279	MEGARAID_MAILBOX to 'n' in Kconfig.megaraid
280
281		- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, 08.19.2004
282		linux-scsi mailing list
283
284ix.	replace udelay with msleep
285
286x.	Typos corrected in comments and whitespace adjustments, explicit
287	grouping of expressions.
288
289
290Release Date	: Fri Jul 23 15:22:07 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
291Current Version	: 2.20.2.0 (scsi module), 2.20.1.0 (cmm module)
292Older Version	: 2.20.1.0 (scsi module), 2.20.0.0 (cmm module)
293
294i.	Add PCI ids for Acer ROMB 2E solution
295
296ii.	Add PCI ids for I4
297
298iii.	Typo corrected for subsys id for megaraid sata 300-4x
299
300iv.	Remove yield() while mailbox handshake in synchronous commands
301
302
303	"My other main gripe is things like this:
304
305	+	// wait for maximum 1 second for status to post
306	+	for (i = 0; i < 40000; i++) {
307	+		if (mbox->numstatus != 0xFF) break;
308	+		udelay(25); yield();
309	+	}
310
311	which litter the driver.  Use of yield() in drivers is deprecated."
312
313		- James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 07.14.2004
314		 linux-scsi mailing list
315
316v.	Remove redundant __megaraid_busywait_mbox routine
317
318vi.	Fix bug in the managment module, which causes a system lockup when the
319	IO module is loaded and then unloaded, followed by executing any
320	management utility. The current version of management module does not
321	handle the adapter unregister properly.
322
323	Specifically, it still keeps a reference to the unregistered
324	controllers. To avoid this, the static array adapters has been
325	replaced by a dynamic list, which gets updated every time an adapter
326	is added or removed.
327
328	Also, during unregistration of the IO module, the resources are
329	now released in the exact reverse order of the allocation time
330	sequence.
331
332
333Release Date	: Fri Jun 25 18:58:43 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
334Current Version	: 2.20.1.0
335Older Version	: megaraid 2.20.0.1
336
337i.	Stale list pointer in adapter causes kernel panic when module
338	megaraid_mbox is unloaded
339
340
341Release Date	: Thu Jun 24 20:37:11 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
342Current Version	: 2.20.0.1
343Older Version	: megaraid 2.20.0.00
344
345i.	Modules are not 'y' by default, but depend on current definition of
346	SCSI & PCI.
347
348ii.	Redundant structure mraid_driver_t removed.
349
350iii.	Miscellaneous indentation and goto/label fixes.
351		- Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, 06.24.2004 linux-scsi
352
353iv.	scsi_host_put(), do just before completing HBA shutdown.
354
355
356
357Release Date	: Mon Jun 21 19:53:54 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
358Current Version	: 2.20.0.0
359Older Version	: megaraid 2.20.0.rc2 and 2.00.3
360
361i.	Independent module to interact with userland applications and
362	multiplex command to low level RAID module(s).
363
364	"Shared code in a third module, a "library module", is an acceptable
365	solution. modprobe automatically loads dependent modules, so users
366	running "modprobe driver1" or "modprobe driver2" would automatically
367	load the shared library module."
368
369		- Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 02.25.2004 LKML
370
371	"As Jeff hinted, if your userspace<->driver API is consistent between
372	your new MPT-based RAID controllers and your existing megaraid driver,
373	then perhaps you need a single small helper module (lsiioctl or some
374	better name), loaded by both mptraid and megaraid automatically, which
375	handles registering the /dev/megaraid node dynamically. In this case,
376	both mptraid and megaraid would register with lsiioctl for each
377	adapter discovered, and lsiioctl would essentially be a switch,
378	redirecting userspace tool ioctls to the appropriate driver."
379
380		- Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> 02.25.2004 LKML
381
382ii.	Remove C99 initializations from pci_device id.
383
384	"pci_id_table_g would be much more readable when not using C99
385	initializers.
386	PCI table doesn't change, there's lots of users that prefer the more
387	readable variant.  And it's really far less and much easier to grok
388	lines without C99 initializers."
389
390		- Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, 05.28.2004 linux-scsi
391
392iii.	Many fixes as suggested by Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> on
393	linux-scsi, 05.28.2004
394
395iv.	We now support up to 32 parallel ioctl commands instead of current 1.
396	There is a conscious effort to let memory allocation not fail for ioctl
397	commands.
398
399v.	Do away with internal memory management. Use pci_pool_(create|alloc)
400	instead.
401
402vi.	Kill tasklet when unloading the driver.
403
404vii.	Do not use "host_lock', driver has fine-grain locks now to protect all
405	data structures.
406
407viii.	Optimize the build scatter-gather list routine. The callers already
408	know the data transfer address and length.
409
410ix.	Better implementation of error handling and recovery. Driver now
411	performs extended errors recovery for instances like scsi cable pull.
412
413x.	Disassociate the management commands with an overlaid scsi command.
414	Driver now treats the management packets as special packets and has a
415	dedicated callback routine.
416