Re: queued patches for SCSI for 2.6.24

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

On Wed, Sep 26 2007 at 3:00 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
> Andrew asked that I provide a status report of pending updates.  The
> list is attached below.  It's pretty much driver updates and minor bug
> fixes.  The main functionality changes are Kay's sysfs updates and the
> shift of the ULD attachement towards the block prep function.
> 
> James
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> Adrian Bunk (2):
>       make scsi_decode_sense_buffer and scsi_decode_sense_extras static
>       scsi_error.c should #include "scsi_transport_api.h"
> 
> Alan Cox (3):
>       dtc: Fix typo
>       eata_pio: Clean up proc handling, bracketing and use cpu_relax()
>       dtc: clean up indent damage and add printk levels
> 
> Andrew Morton (3):
>       ips: warning fix
>       aacraid: rename check_reset
>       bsg: declare structures for the non BSG case
> 
> Andrew Vasquez (15):
>       qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k4.
>       qla2xxx: Limit iIDMA speed adjustments.
>       qla2xxx: Rework MSI-X handlers.
>       qla2xxx: Clear options-flags while staging firmware-execution.
>       qla2xxx: Sparse cleanups in qla_mid.c
>       qla2xxx: Cleanup several 'sparse' warnings.
>       qla2xxx: Use shost_priv().
>       qla2xxx: Remove unused member (list) from srb_t structure.
>       qla2xxx: Use the correct pointer-address during NVRAM writes.
>       qla2xxx: Set correct attribute count during FDMI RPA.
>       qla2xxx: Query additional RISC registers during ISP25XX firmware dump.
>       qla2xxx: Correct staging of RISC while attempting to pause.
>       qla2xxx: Query additional RISC information during a pause.
>       qla2xxx: Add flash burst-read/write support.
>       qla2xxx: Collapse and simplify ISP2XXX firmware dump routines.
> 
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
>       MAINTAINERS: mark ide-scsi as Orphan
> 
> Bernhard Walle (1):
>       ips: Update version information
> 
> Boaz Harrosh (2):
>       ide-scsi.: convert to data accessors and !use_sg cleanup
>       microtek: use data accessors and !use_sg cleanup
> 
> Christof Schmitt (5):
>       zfcp: Enable debug feature before setting adapter online
>       scsi_transport_fc: Introduce disable_target_scan flag
>       zfcp: Remove braces for only one statement
>       zfcp: Remove unnecessary assignment
>       zfcp: correct indentation for nested if-else
> 
> David Miller (1):
>       esp: fix instance numbering.
> 
> David Woodhouse (1):
>       Fix ibmvscsi client for multiplatform iSeries+pSeries kernel
> 
> Eric Moore (10):
>       MAINTAINERS : mpt fusion mailing list change
>       mpt fusion: bump version to 3.04.06
>       mpt fusion: Kconfig cleanup
>       mpt fusion: removing Dell copyright
>       mpt fusion: removing references to hd->ioc
>       mpt fusion: rename vdev to vdevice
>       mpt fusion: adding/removing white space
>       mpt fusion: standardize printks and debug info
>       mpt fusion: Add support for ATTO 4LD: Rebranded LSI 53C1030
>       Addition to pci_ids.h for ATTO Technology, Inc.
> 
> FUJITA Tomonori (17):
>       srp_transport: convert to use supported_mode attribute
>       fc_transport: add target driver support
>       add supported_mode and active_mode attributes to the host
>       tgt: fix can_queue bug
>       fc4: convert to use the data buffer accessors
>       sg: increase sglist_len of the sg_scatter_hold structure
>       ps3rom: convert to use the data buffer accessors
>       scsi_transport_srp: remove tgt dependencies
>       tgt: convert ibmvstgt to use transport tsk_mgmt_response callback
>       tgt: move tsk_mgmt_response callback to transport class
>       tgt: convert libsrp and ibmvstgt to use srp_transport
>       srp_transport: add target driver support
>       tgt: add I_T nexus support
>       transport_srp: add rport roles attribute
>       ib_srp: convert to use the srp transport class
>       ibmvscsi: convert to use the srp transport class
>       add srp transport class
> 
> Gabriel C (1):
>       NCR5380: fix NCR53C400_PSEUDO_DMA is not defined
> 
> Gilbert Wu (1):
>       aic94xx: Add new PCI ID for ASC58300
> 
> Heiko Carstens (3):
>       zfcp: avoid if (whatever) ; constructs.
>       zfcp: allocate gid_pn_data objects from gid_pn_cache.
>       zfcp: fix memory leak.
> 
> HighPoint Linux Team (1):
>       hptiop: adding new firmware interface and more PCI device IDs
> 
> James Bottomley (3):
>       sg: use idr to replace static arrays
>       move ULD attachment into the prep function
>       arcmsr: fix compile problems
> 
> Jan Engelhardt (1):
>       mpt fusion: Use menuconfig objects
> 
> Jeff Garzik (2):
>       arcmsr: irq handler fixes, cleanups, micro-opts
>       arcmsr: Fix hardware wait loops
> 
> Jesper Juhl (3):
>       mpt fusion: fix two potential mem leaks
>       NCR_D700, lpfc: Clean up duplicate includes
>       lpfc: fix potential overflow of hbqs array
> 
> Joe Carnuccio (1):
>       qla2xxx: Allow region-based flash-part accesses.
> 
> Kay Sievers (1):
>       switch sdev sysfs attributes to default attributes
> 
> Mariusz Kozlowski (3):
>       mpt fusion: remove redundant memset
>       mpt fusion: mostly kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
>       kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
> 
> Masatake YAMATO (1):
>       Fix signness of parameters in scsi module
> 
> Matthew Wilcox (49):
>       ips: Close narrow race in release
>       aic94xx: Free scsi host on error
>       simscsi: Free scsi host on error
>       qlogicfas: Close narrow race in release
>       aha152x: Close narrow race in release
>       ncr53c8xx: Call scsi_host_put in release
>       ide-scsi: Close narrow race in release
>       ibmmca: Stop leaking scsi_hosts on exit
>       scsi_scan: Cope with kthread_run failing
>       Improve error message when offlining a device
>       advansys: Use DRV_NAME
>       advansys: Comment/indentation/macro cleanup
>       advansys: Remove some custom wrappers
>       advansys: Remove a check for an impossible condition
>       advansys: Support 16-byte commands properly
>       advansys: Enable interrupts earlier in queuecommand
>       advansys: Remove `active' queue and all remaining internal queueing code
>       advansys: Remove `done' queue
>       advansys: Remove a check for an impossible condition
>       advansys: Remove `waiting' queue
>       advansys: Shrink advansys_board_found a little more
>       advansys: Reformat microcode
>       advansys: Create AdvLoadMicrocode
>       advansys: Create AdvBuildCarrierFreelist
>       advansys: Fix VLB driver name
>       advansys: Move documentation to Documentation/scsi
>       advansys: use memcpy instead of open-coded loop
>       advansys: Remove pci_slot_info
>       advansys: Remove library-style callback routines
>       advansys: Move struct device out of the cfg structures
>       advansys: Stop using n_io_port in Scsi_Host structure
>       advansys: ioremap no longer needs page-aligned addresses
>       advansys: delete AscGetChipBusType
>       advansys: misc reformatting
>       advansys: remove INQUIRY sniffing
>       Add QUANTUM XP34301 to the blacklist
>       advansys: remove AscCompareString()
>       advansys: More PCI cleanups
>       advansys: Update resource management
>       advansys: Convert to ISA driver model
>       advansys: Convert to EISA driver model
>       advansys: Convert to PCI driver model
>       advansys: Move to scsi hotplug initialisation model
>       advansys: Make advansys_board_found a little more readable
>       advansys: Stop checking the scsi_cmnd belongs to our Scsi_Host
>       advansys: Improve interrupt handler
>       advansys: Clean up proc_info implementation
>       advansys: undate version, copyright, etc
>       Fix async scanning double-add problems
> 
> Matthias Kaehlcke (1):
>       osst: Use mutex instead of semaphore
> 
> Michael Reed (1):
>       stale residual returned on write following BUSY retry
> 
> Mike Christie (1):
>       fix write buffer length in scsi_req_map_sg()
> 
> Nick Cheng (1):
>       arcmsr: 1.20.00.15: add SATA RAID plus other fixes
> 
> Prakash, Sathya (5):
>       mpt fusion: Change company name from LSI Logic to LSI
>       mpt fusion: Link speed change display support
>       mpt fusion: Creation of mptsas.h header file
>       mpt fusion: Change call back indices to u8 from int
>       mpt fusion: Usage of high priority request FIFO to send task management commands
> 
> Ravi Anand (1):
>       qla2xxx: Correct infinite-login-retry issue.
> 
> Salyzyn, Mark (1):
>       aacraid: Add documentation for new Adaptec, SMC and SUN cards
> 
> Seokmann Ju (2):
>       qla2xxx: Retrieve max-NPIV support capabilities from FW.
>       qla2xxx: Add PCI error recovery support.
> 
> Swen Schillig (2):
>       zfcp: whitespace cleanup
>       zfcp: cleanup, separation of ERP, non ERP-version for exchange_ functions
> 

Will you not have time to review the scsi_error patches? They are independent
of the drivers, and will enable usb patches to go threw their maintainer tree.
They establish a new API and fix a minor bug.

Boaz