From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: [Announce] smp_utils-0.92 available Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:09:58 -0500 Message-ID: <457AC3B6.3090800@torque.net> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:39875 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761781AbWLIOKI (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:10:08 -0500 Received: from ip-106.82.126.206.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([206.126.82.106] helo=[192.168.48.80]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Gt2tz-0001r9-KD for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:10:07 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org smp_utils is a package of command line utilities for invoking SMP functions to monitor and manage SAS expanders. SMP is the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Management Protocol (SMP). A SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA) includes a SMP initiator (along with a SSP and STP initiator). A SAS expander contains a SMP target. Several SAS HBAs have a SMP pass through interface that can be used to send SMP requests and receive the responses. This package targets the linux kernel (lk) 2.6 and lk 2.4 series. Two interfaces are available: the "mptctl" pass through used by MPT Fusion SAS HBAs and the "smp_portal" sysfs attribute pass through used by at least one aic94xx based Linux driver. For an overview and examples of smp_utils see: http://www.torque.net/sg/smp_utils.html A tarball, rpm and deb can be found in table 2. CHANGELOG (since version 0.91): - all: suggest using '-v' if smp_send_req() fails - smp_lib: sync function names and results with sas2r07 - smp_rep_general: sync with sas2r07 - smp_rep_route_info: add '--multiple' and '--num=" options. Underlying SMP function may be called multiple times to show one line per phy's route table. - smp_lib.h: add C++ 'extern "C" ' wrapper - smp_discover+smp_discover_list: sync with sas2r07 - smp_conf_general: add new SMP function - smp_utils.8: suggestions for finding expander SAS addresses and mptsas ioc_num - Makefile.freebsd: builds utilities on FreeBSD - man pages: cleanup Doug Gilbert