android_kernel_motorola_sm6225/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.arcmsr
Erich Chen 1c57e86d75 [SCSI] arcmsr: initial driver, version 1.20.00.13
arcmsr is a driver for the Areca Raid controller, a host based RAID
subsystem that speaks SCSI at the firmware level.

This patch is quite a clean up over the initial submission with
contributions from:

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Signed-off-by: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-07-28 14:13:40 -05:00

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** History
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** REV# DATE NAME DESCRIPTION
** 1.00.00.00 3/31/2004 Erich Chen First release
** 1.10.00.04 7/28/2004 Erich Chen modify for ioctl
** 1.10.00.06 8/28/2004 Erich Chen modify for 2.6.x
** 1.10.00.08 9/28/2004 Erich Chen modify for x86_64
** 1.10.00.10 10/10/2004 Erich Chen bug fix for SMP & ioctl
** 1.20.00.00 11/29/2004 Erich Chen bug fix with arcmsr_bus_reset when PHY error
** 1.20.00.02 12/09/2004 Erich Chen bug fix with over 2T bytes RAID Volume
** 1.20.00.04 1/09/2005 Erich Chen fits for Debian linux kernel version 2.2.xx
** 1.20.00.05 2/20/2005 Erich Chen cleanly as look like a Linux driver at 2.6.x
** thanks for peoples kindness comment
** Kornel Wieliczek
** Christoph Hellwig
** Adrian Bunk
** Andrew Morton
** Christoph Hellwig
** James Bottomley
** Arjan van de Ven
** 1.20.00.06 3/12/2005 Erich Chen fix with arcmsr_pci_unmap_dma "unsigned long" cast,
** modify PCCB POOL allocated by "dma_alloc_coherent"
** (Kornel Wieliczek's comment)
** 1.20.00.07 3/23/2005 Erich Chen bug fix with arcmsr_scsi_host_template_init
** occur segmentation fault,
** if RAID adapter does not on PCI slot
** and modprobe/rmmod this driver twice.
** bug fix enormous stack usage (Adrian Bunk's comment)
** 1.20.00.08 6/23/2005 Erich Chen bug fix with abort command,
** in case of heavy loading when sata cable
** working on low quality connection
** 1.20.00.09 9/12/2005 Erich Chen bug fix with abort command handling, firmware version check
** and firmware update notify for hardware bug fix
** 1.20.00.10 9/23/2005 Erich Chen enhance sysfs function for change driver's max tag Q number.
** add DMA_64BIT_MASK for backward compatible with all 2.6.x
** add some useful message for abort command
** add ioctl code 'ARCMSR_IOCTL_FLUSH_ADAPTER_CACHE'
** customer can send this command for sync raid volume data
** 1.20.00.11 9/29/2005 Erich Chen by comment of Arjan van de Ven fix incorrect msleep redefine
** cast off sizeof(dma_addr_t) condition for 64bit pci_set_dma_mask
** 1.20.00.12 9/30/2005 Erich Chen bug fix with 64bit platform's ccbs using if over 4G system memory
** change 64bit pci_set_consistent_dma_mask into 32bit
** increcct adapter count if adapter initialize fail.
** miss edit at arcmsr_build_ccb....
** psge += sizeof(struct _SG64ENTRY *) =>
** psge += sizeof(struct _SG64ENTRY)
** 64 bits sg entry would be incorrectly calculated
** thanks Kornel Wieliczek give me kindly notify
** and detail description
** 1.20.00.13 11/15/2005 Erich Chen scheduling pending ccb with FIFO
** change the architecture of arcmsr command queue list
** for linux standard list
** enable usage of pci message signal interrupt
** follow Randy.Danlup kindness suggestion cleanup this code
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