From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: [RFC] IBM Power RAID driver (ipr) #2 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:48:13 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4011969D.3070703@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.103]:4009 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266696AbUAWVsR (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:48:17 -0500 Received: from northrelay04.pok.ibm.com (northrelay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.206]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i0NLmFcg639882 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:48:16 -0500 Received: from us.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by northrelay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i0NLmF2B105270 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:48:15 -0500 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org This is the second Here is the latest version of the LLD for the IBM Power RAID family of adapters. This includes several IBM iSeries and pSeries SCSI adapters. Thanks to everyone who provided comments on the first round. Major changes include: 1. Complete removal of the ipr char device. 2. All RAID devices now show up to the midlayer as sg devices. 3. Adapter also shows up as an sg device. 4. Dump ioctl is now a binary sysfs file 5. Get trace ioctl is now a binary sysfs file 6. Microcode download is now done using request_firmware and a sysfs file to initiate it. 7. Reordered code to reduce forward declarations and improve readability. 8. Dump and trace is now a kernel config option 9. Device attributes to adjust queue_depth and enable tcqing. The driver can be found at: http://www-124.ibm.com/storageio/ipr/patch-2.6.1-ipr-2.0.0-2.gz it also requires the following patch, which I submitted this week: http://www-124.ibm.com/storageio/ipr/patch-2.6.1-array_controller.gz Thanks -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center