- Do FIELD_SET correctly for scalar types.
- Add some basic table ops.
- Push error reporting back into iop.c.
- Add some field index and (yet more) LAN defs to i2o.h.
- More SCSI port defs.
- Nuke vtophys().
- Release resources in iop_init() upon failure.
- Don't use a message wrapper when initalising the outbound FIFO.
- A couple of field size/endian fixes.
- Just use iop_post() when we don't need special handling.
- IM_DISCARD is now pointless, since we don't queue at the driver level.
- Map data transfers from/to userspace directly.
- A few comment and stylistic changes.
This is a completely rewritten scsipi_xfer execution engine, and the
associated changes to HBA drivers. Overview of changes & features:
- All xfers are queued in the mid-layer, rather than doing so in an
ad-hoc fashion in individual adapter drivers.
- Adapter/channel resource management in the mid-layer, avoids even trying
to start running an xfer if the adapter/channel doesn't have the resources.
- Better communication between the mid-layer and the adapters.
- Asynchronous event notification mechanism from adapter to mid-layer and
peripherals.
- Better peripheral queue management: freeze/thaw, sorted requeueing during
recovery, etc.
- Clean separation of peripherals, adapters, and adapter channels (no more
scsipi_link).
- Kernel thread for each scsipi_channel makes error recovery much easier
(no more dealing with interrupt context when recovering from an error).
- Mid-layer support for tagged queueing: commands can have the tag type
set explicitly, tag IDs are allocated in the mid-layer (thus eliminating
the need to use buggy tag ID allocation schemes in many adapter drivers).
- support for QUEUE FULL and CHECK CONDITION status in mid-layer; the command
will be requeued, or a REQUEST SENSE will be sent as appropriate.
Just before the merge syssrc has been tagged with thorpej_scsipi_beforemerge
- Adhere to the spec better in some places. Also, work around some quirks
noted in the Linux I2O code.
- Register event handlers for the executive and RBS devices.
- Fix a number of buglets and tidy a little.
- Implement a message pass-through interface and some other useful ioctls.
more testing with different configurations, and work in a number of areas
(which I'm not able to do for a little while), but is at least functional
and stable on i386 with DPT adapters.
