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* [PATCH 0/3]  qla2xxx: deprecate usage of firmware-loader modules.
@ 2005-11-09 23:48 Andrew Vasquez
  2005-11-09 23:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] qla2xxx: Add full firmware(-request) hotplug support for all ISPs Andrew Vasquez
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From: Andrew Vasquez @ 2005-11-09 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christoph Hellwig, James Bottomley, Linux-SCSI Mailing List
  Cc: Andrew Vasquez

James,

This set of patches transitions the qla2xxx driver to begin using the
request_firmware() interfaces to retrieve firmware-blobs from
user-space.  This will be the default behaviour going forward as the
embedded firmware-binary images are scheduled for removal from the
upstream kernel sources.

NOTE: A set of  (deprecated) Kconfig options are present to allow the
user to continue to use the firmware-loader modules.

Layout of Kconfig updates:

 - default qla2xxx build mechanism (firmware via request_firmware())

	<M> QLogic QLA2XXX Fibre Channel Support
	[ ]     Use firmware-loader modules (DEPRECATED)

 - using firmware loader modules (embedded firmware used)

	<M> QLogic QLA2XXX Fibre Channel Support
	[*]     Use firmware-loader modules (DEPRECATED)
	< >       Build QLogic ISP2100 firmware-module (NEW)
	< >       Build QLogic ISP2200 firmware-module (NEW)
	< >       Build QLogic ISP2300 firmware-module (NEW)
	<M>       Build QLogic ISP2322 firmware-module (NEW)
	< >       Build QLogic ISP63xx firmware-module (NEW)
	<M>       Build QLogic ISP24xx firmware-module (NEW)


Summary of updates:

  Add full firmware(-request) hotplug support for all ISPs.
  Add support for embedded ISP24xx firmware.
  Resync with latest released ISP24xx firmware -- 4.00.16.

All patches can be found at the following URL:

        ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/patches/8.x/8.01.03k/
		5001-Add-full-firmware-request-hotplug-support-for-all-ISPs.txt
		5002-Add-support-for-embedded-ISP24xx-firmware.txt
		5003-Resync-with-latest-released-ISP24xx-firmware-4.00.16.txt.bz2

Regards,
Andrew Vasquez
QLogic Corporation

-- 
Andrew Vasquez

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2005-11-09 23:48 [PATCH 0/3] qla2xxx: deprecate usage of firmware-loader modules Andrew Vasquez
2005-11-09 23:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] qla2xxx: Add full firmware(-request) hotplug support for all ISPs Andrew Vasquez
2005-11-10 10:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-11  0:47     ` Andrew Vasquez
2005-11-11  7:30       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-11  8:08         ` Andrew Vasquez
2005-11-09 23:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] qla2xxx: Add support for embedded ISP24xx firmware Andrew Vasquez
2005-11-09 23:49 ` [PATCH 3/3] qla2xxx: Resync with latest released ISP24xx firmware -- 4.00.16 Andrew Vasquez

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