keith mannthey [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:24:39 +0000 (16:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386 bootioremap / kexec fix
With CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START set to a non default values the i386
boot_ioremap code calculated its pte index wrong and users of boot_ioremap
have their areas incorrectly mapped (for me SRAT table not mapped during
early boot). This patch removes the addr < BOOT_PTE_PTRS constraint.
[ Keith says this is applicable to 2.6.16 and 2.6.17 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey<kmannth@us.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ian Kent [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:24:16 +0000 (16:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] autofs4: zero timeout prevents shutdown
If the timeout of an autofs mount is set to zero then umounts are disabled.
This works fine, however the kernel module checks the expire timeout and
goes no further if it is zero. This is not the right thing to do at
shutdown as the module is passed an option to expire mounts regardless of
their timeout setting.
This patch allows autofs to honor the force expire option.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Wilcox [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:22:52 +0000 (20:22 -0600)]
[PATCH] Revert ABI-breaking change in /proc
Some user tools parse /proc/scsi/scsi, so we can't yet change the names.
Change the existing ones back to their old names, and add an admonition
to not make the same mistake that I did.
Andrew Morton reports that this was breaking YDL 4.1 userspace.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (28 commits)
ocfs2: Teach ocfs2_drop_lock() to use ->set_lvb() callback
ocfs2: Remove ->unblock lockres operation
ocfs2: move downconvert worker to lockres ops
ocfs2: Remove unused dlmglue functions
ocfs2: Have the metadata lock use generic dlmglue functions
ocfs2: Add ->set_lvb callback in dlmglue
ocfs2: Add ->check_downconvert callback in dlmglue
ocfs2: Check for refreshing locks in generic unblock function
ocfs2: don't unconditionally pass LVB flags
ocfs2: combine inode and generic blocking AST functions
ocfs2: Add ->get_osb() dlmglue locking operation
ocfs2: remove ->unlock_ast() callback from ocfs2_lock_res_ops
ocfs2: combine inode and generic AST functions
ocfs2: Clean up lock resource refresh flags
ocfs2: Remove i_generation from inode lock names
ocfs2: Encode i_generation in the meta data lvb
ocfs2: Free up some space in the lvb
ocfs2: Remove special casing for inode creation in ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock()
ocfs2: manually d_move() during ocfs2_rename()
[PATCH] Allow file systems to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (28 commits)
kbuild: add distclean info to 'make help' and more details for 'clean'
dontdiff: add utsrelease.h
kbuild: fix "mkdir -p" usage in scripts/package/mkspec
kbuild: correct and clarify versioning info in Makefile
kbuild: fixup Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
kbuild: Extend kbuild/defconfig tags support to exuberant ctags
kbuild: fix for some typos in Documentation/makefiles.txt
kbuild: clarify "make C=" build option
Documentaion: update Documentation/Changes with minimum versions
kbuild: update help in top level Makefile
kbuild: fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved module symbols
kbuild: remove debug left-over from Makefile.host
kbuild: create output directory for hostprogs with O=.. build
kbuild: add missing return statement in modpost.c:secref_whitelist()
kbuild: preperly align SYSMAP output
kbuild: make -rR is now default
kbuild: make V=2 tell why a target is rebuild
kbuild: modpost on vmlinux regardless of CONFIG_MODULES
kbuild: ignore references from ".pci_fixup" to ".init.text"
kbuild: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
...
kbuild: fix "mkdir -p" usage in scripts/package/mkspec
"mkdir -p" does not only mean not to complain if the directory already
exists, but also to create the parent directories if needed. This patch
removes "lib" from the list of directories to create as we will also create
"lib/modules".
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
kbuild: Extend kbuild/defconfig tags support to exuberant ctags
The following patch extends kbuild/defconfig tags support to exuberant
ctags. The previous support is only for emacs ctags/etags programs.
This patch also corrects the kconfig regex for the emacs invocation.
Previously it would miss some instances because it assumed /^config
instead of /^[ \t]*config
Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
kbuild: fix for some typos in Documentation/makefiles.txt
I noticed a few typos while reading makefiles.txt to learn about the
kbuild system. Attached is a patch against 2.6.18 to fix them.
Remove trailing whitespace while we are there..
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
kbuild: fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved module symbols
At stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules. In case of unresolved
symbols modpost only prints warning.
IMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of unresolved
symbols (at least in modules coming with kernel), since usually such errors
are left unnoticed, but kernel modules are broken.
- new option '-w' is added to modpost:
if option is specified, modpost only warns about unresolved symbols
- modpost is called with '-w' for external modules in Makefile.modpost
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg [Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:55:33 +0000 (21:55 +0200)]
kbuild: create output directory for hostprogs with O=.. build
hostprogs-y only supported creating output directory for the final
program. Extend this to also cover the situation where a .o
file (used when host program is made from compositie objects) is
locate in another directory.
First user of this is the built-in lxdialog that.
Sam Ravnborg [Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:35:14 +0000 (21:35 +0200)]
kbuild: make V=2 tell why a target is rebuild
tell why a a target got build
enabled by make V=2
Output (listed in the order they are checked):
(1) - due to target is PHONY
(2) - due to target missing
(3) - due to: file1.h file2.h
(4) - due to command line change
(5) - due to missing .cmd file
(6) - due to target not in $(targets)
(1) We always build PHONY targets
(2) No target, so we better build it
(3) Prerequisite is newer than target
(4) The command line stored in the file named dir/.target.cmd
differed from actual command line. This happens when compiler
options changes
(5) No dir/.target.cmd file (used to store command line)
(6) No dir/.target.cmd file and target not listed in $(targets)
This is a good hint that there is a bug in the kbuild file
This patch is inspired by a patch from: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg [Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:43:39 +0000 (20:43 +0200)]
kbuild: modpost on vmlinux regardless of CONFIG_MODULES
Based on patch from: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
This has the advantage that all section mismatch checks are run regardless
of modules being enabled or not.
When running modpost on vmlinux output:
MODPOST vmlinux
When running modpost on modules output count of modules like this:
MODPOST 5 modules
Olaf Hering [Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:42:26 +0000 (18:42 -0700)]
remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT from asm-offsets.h
No file in rpm binary package should have the RPM_BUILD_ROOT string in it.
To simplify building of external modules, our kernel-source package
contains some temp files from the Kbuild system. asm/asm-offsets.h is one
of the files that contains the absolute path if make O=$O is used.
* This file was generated by /var/tmp/kernel-source-2.6.14_rc4-build/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-rc4-2/Kbuild
Remove the $RPM_BUILD_ROOT string in the shipped tempfile.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:39:59 +0000 (20:39 +0200)]
kbuild: add unifdef
This patch contains a raw copy of unifdef.c
Next patch will modify it and add infrastructure to use it
Adding unifdef to the kernel is acked by the author.
The reason to add unifdef as part of the kernel source is that it is not
yet a common utility on most distributions.
Sam Ravnborg [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:37:44 +0000 (19:37 +0200)]
kbuild: consistently decide when to rebuild a target
Consistently decide when to rebuild a target across all of
if_changed, if_changed_dep, if_changed_rule.
PHONY targets are now treated alike (ignored) for all targets
While add it make Kbuild.include almost readable by factoring out a few
bits to some common variables and reuse this in Makefile.build.
Matthew Wilcox [Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:54:07 +0000 (12:54 -0600)]
kconfig: support DOS line endings
Kconfig doesn't currently handle config files with DOS line endings.
While these are, of course, an abomination, etc, etc, it can be handy
to not have to convert them first. It's also a tiny patch and even adds
support for lines ending in just \r or even \n\r.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
David Woodhouse [Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:15:14 +0000 (22:15 +0100)]
Use dependencies for 'make headers_install'.
Re-export header files only if either they or their controlling Kbuild
file has actually changed. Also allow for similar dependencies with
'headers_check', once we properly create the dependencies for those.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Mark Fasheh [Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:01:16 +0000 (22:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: Remove ->unblock lockres operation
Have ocfs2_process_blocked_lock() call ocfs2_generic_unblock_lock(), which
gets to be ocfs2_unblock_lock() now that it's the only possible unblock
function.
Remove the ->unblock() callback from the structure, and all lock type
specific unblock functions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:39:52 +0000 (21:39 -0700)]
ocfs2: Have the metadata lock use generic dlmglue functions
Fill in the ->check_downconvert and ->set_lvb callbacks with meta data
specific operations and switch ocfs2_unblock_meta() to call
ocfs2_generic_unblock_lock()
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:08:14 +0000 (22:08 -0700)]
ocfs2: don't unconditionally pass LVB flags
Allow a lock type to specifiy whether it makes use of the LVB. The only type
which does this right now is the meta data lock. This should save us some
space on network messages since they won't have to needlessly transmit value
blocks.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:28:19 +0000 (17:28 -0700)]
ocfs2: Remove i_generation from inode lock names
OCFS2 puts inode meta data in the "lock value block" provided by the DLM.
Typically, i_generation is encoded in the lock name so that a deleted inode
on and a new one in the same block don't share the same lvb.
Unfortunately, that scheme means that the read in ocfs2_read_locked_inode()
is potentially thrown away as soon as the meta data lock is taken - we
cannot encode the lock name without first knowing i_generation, which
requires a disk read.
This patch encodes i_generation in the inode meta data lvb, and removes the
value from the inode meta data lock name. This way, the read can be covered
by a lock, and at the same time we can distinguish between an up to date and
a stale LVB.
This will help cold-cache stat(2) performance in particular.
Since this patch changes the protocol version, we take the opportunity to do
a minor re-organization of two of the LVB fields.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:35:49 +0000 (15:35 -0700)]
ocfs2: Encode i_generation in the meta data lvb
When i_generation is removed from the lockname, this will help us determine
whether a meta data lvb has information that is in sync with the local
struct inode.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:22:18 +0000 (15:22 -0700)]
ocfs2: Free up some space in the lvb
lvb_version doesn't need to be a whole 32 bits. Make it an 8 bit field to
free up some space. This should be backwards compatible until we use one of
the fields, in which case we'd bump the lvb version anyway.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:51:28 +0000 (16:51 -0700)]
ocfs2: Remove special casing for inode creation in ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock()
We can't use LKM_LOCAL for new dentry locks because an unlink and subsequent
re-create of a name/inode pair may result in the lock still being mastered
somewhere in the cluster.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:22:54 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
ocfs2: manually d_move() during ocfs2_rename()
Make use of FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE to avoid a race condition that can occur
during ->rename() if we d_move() outside of the parent directory cluster
locks, and another node discovers the new name (created during the rename)
and unlinks it. d_move() will unconditionally rehash a dentry - which will
leave stale data in the system.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:22:21 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
[PATCH] Allow file systems to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()
Some file systems want to manually d_move() the dentries involved in a
rename. We can do this by making use of the FS_ODD_RENAME flag if we just
have nfs_rename() unconditionally do the d_move(). While there, we rename
the flag to be more descriptive.
OCFS2 uses this to protect that part of the rename operation with a cluster
lock.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Mark Fasheh [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:43:18 +0000 (14:43 -0700)]
ocfs2: Add dentry tracking API
Replace the dentry vote mechanism with a cluster lock which covers a set
of dentries. This allows us to force d_delete() only on nodes which actually
care about an unlink.
Every node that does a ->lookup() gets a read only lock on the dentry, until
an unlink during which the unlinking node, will request an exclusive lock,
forcing the other nodes who care about that dentry to d_delete() it. The
effect is that we retain a very lightweight ->d_revalidate(), and at the
same time get to make large improvements to the average case performance of
the ocfs2 unlink and rename operations.
This patch adds the higher level API and the dentry manipulation code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:14:34 +0000 (14:14 -0700)]
ocfs2: Add new cluster lock type
Replace the dentry vote mechanism with a cluster lock which covers a set
of dentries. This allows us to force d_delete() only on nodes which actually
care about an unlink.
Every node that does a ->lookup() gets a read only lock on the dentry, until
an unlink during which the unlinking node, will request an exclusive lock,
forcing the other nodes who care about that dentry to d_delete() it. The
effect is that we retain a very lightweight ->d_revalidate(), and at the
same time get to make large improvements to the average case performance of
the ocfs2 unlink and rename operations.
This patch adds the cluster lock type which OCFS2 can attach to
dentries. A small number of fs/ocfs2/dcache.c functions are stubbed
out so that this change can compile.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:39:27 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
ocfs2: Update dlmfs for new dlmlock() API
We just need to add a namelen field to the user_lock_res structure, and
update a few debug prints. Instead of updating all debug prints, I took the
opportunity to remove a few that are likely unnecessary these days.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Mark Fasheh [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:38:29 +0000 (11:38 -0700)]
ocfs2: Allow binary names in the DLM
The OCFS2 DLM uses strlen() to determine lock name length, which excludes
the possibility of putting binary values in the name string. Fix this by
requiring that string length be passed in as a parameter.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (50 commits)
[libata] Delete pata_it8172 driver
[PATCH] libata: improve handling of diagostic fail (and hardware that misreports it)
[PATCH] libata: fix non-uniform ports handling
Fix libata resource conflict for legacy mode
[libata] ata_piix: build fix
[PATCH] pata_amd: Check enable bits on Nvidia
[PATCH] Update SiS PATA
[libata] Add pata_jmicron driver to Kconfig, Makefile
[libata #pata-drivers] Trim trailing whitespace.
[libata] Trim trailing whitespace.
[libata] Add a bunch of PATA drivers.
Rename libata-bmdma.c to libata-sff.c.
libata: Grand renaming.
Clean up drivers/ata/Kconfig a bit.
[PATCH] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/scsi/sata_sil*
[PATCH] sata_via: Add SATA support for vt8237a
[PATCH] libata: change path to libata in libata.tmpl
[PATCH] libata: s/CONFIG_SCSI_SATA/CONFIG_[S]ATA/g in pci/quirks.c
libata: Make sure drivers/ata is a separate Kconfig menu
[libata] ata_piix: add missing kfree()
...
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (217 commits)
net/ieee80211: fix more crypto-related build breakage
[PATCH] Spidernet: add ethtool -S (show statistics)
[NET] GT96100: Delete bitrotting ethernet driver
[PATCH] mv643xx_eth: restrict to 32-bit PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
[PATCH] Cirrus Logic ep93xx ethernet driver
r8169: the MMIO region of the 8167 stands behin BAR#1
e1000, ixgb: Remove pointless wrappers
[PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
[PATCH] s2io: Switch to pci_get_device
[PATCH] gt96100: move to pci_get_device API
[PATCH] ehea: bugfix for register access functions
[PATCH] e1000 disable device on PCI error
drivers/net/phy/fixed: #if 0 some incomplete code
drivers/net: const-ify ethtool_ops declarations
[PATCH] ethtool: allow const ethtool_ops
[PATCH] sky2: big endian
[PATCH] sky2: fiber support
[PATCH] sky2: tx pause bug fix
drivers/net: Trim trailing whitespace
[PATCH] ehea: IBM eHEA Ethernet Device Driver
...
Manually resolved conflicts in drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c and
drivers/net/sky2.c related to CHECKSUM_HW/CHECKSUM_PARTIAL changes by
commit 84fa7933a33f806bbbaae6775e87459b1ec584c0 that just happened to be
next to unrelated changes in this update.
James Bottomley [Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:00:18 +0000 (12:00 -0400)]
[SCSI] SPI transport class: misc DV fixes
Key more of the domain validation settings off the inquiry data from
the disk (in particular, don't try IU or DT unless the disk claims to
support them.
Also add a new dv_in_progress flag to prevent recursive DV.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
David S. Miller [Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:31:42 +0000 (18:31 -0700)]
[SPARC64]: Fix sched_clock() wrapping every ~17 seconds.
Unfortunately, sparc64 doesn't have an easy way to do a "64 X 64 -->
128" bit multiply like PowerPC and IA64 do. We were doing a
"64 X 64 --> 64" bit multiple which causes overflow very quickly with
a 30-bit quotient shift.
So use a quotientshift count of 10 instead of 30, just like x86 and
ARM do.
This also fixes the wrapping of printk timestamp values every ~17
seconds.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alan Cox [Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:18:34 +0000 (19:18 +0100)]
[SCSI] eata_pio cleanup and PCI fix
This started as a PCI reference fixup but to do that I need to build it,
to build it I need to fix it and its full of 32bitisms and uglies.
It has been resurrected, I'm not sure if this is a thank you for the
work on the license stuff or punishment for some unknown misdeed however
8). I've also fixed a memory scribble in the init code.
One oddity - the changes from HZ * to constants are deliberate. Whoever
originally wrote the code (or cleaned it up) used HZ for a cycle timing
loop even though is not HZ related. I've put it back to the counts used
in the old days when the driver was most used.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Mark Haverkamp [Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:00:39 +0000 (09:00 -0700)]
[SCSI] aacraid: README update
Received from Mark Salyzyn:
This patch to the driver's documentation adds a few new product entries,
sorts the entries on OEM lines first for easy searching, followed by
product id order to make it easier to compare against the open source
pci list. The driver has 'family match' so is somewhat future proof, no
code changes are required to recognize the new products.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Mark Haverkamp [Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:00:18 +0000 (09:00 -0700)]
[SCSI] aacraid: remove scsi_remove_device
Received from Mark Salyzyn:
Until the system is stabilized, I am suggesting the enclosed
modification to prevent the driver from tickling the panic. Once sysfs
and friends are stabilized, the patch may be backed out. We have yet to
evaluate if we really want to relinquish existing Scsi Devices in any
case, holding on to them as configuration of arrays comes and goes makes
some sense as well. As a result, we have opted to pull the lines rather
than comment them in legacy.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Mark Haverkamp [Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:00:02 +0000 (09:00 -0700)]
[SCSI] aacraid: merge rx and rkt code
Received from Mark Salyzyn:
The only real difference between the rkt and rx platform modules is the
offset of the message registers. This patch recognizes this similarity
and simplifies the driver to reduce it's code footprint and to improve
maintainability by reducing the code duplication.
Visibly, the 'rkt.c' portion of this patch looks more complicated than
it really is. View it as retaining the rkt-only specifics of the
interface.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Mark Haverkamp [Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:59:43 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[SCSI] aacraid: expose physical devices
Received from Mark Salyzyn:
I am placing this functionality into an insmod parameter. Normally the physical
components are exported to sg, and are blocked from showing up in sd.
Note that the pass-through I/O path via the driver through the Firmware to the
physical disks is not an optimized path, the card is designed for Hardware
RAID, elevator sorting and caching. This should not be used as a means for
utilizing the aacraid based controllers as a generic scsi/SATA/SAS controller,
performance should suck by a few percentage points, any RAID meta-data on the
drives will confuse the controller about who owns the drives and there is a
high risk of destroying content in both directions. Unreliable and for
experimentation or strange controlled circumstances only.
Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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