As discussed in a thread on this list titled:
    "RFC: short reads on block devices"
this patch adds recommendations for LLDs to set resid
when there might be uncertainty about how much data
has been returned by a device.

This patch inline and attached] is against scsi-misc-2.6.git
Signed-off-by: NDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NStephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

The following patch updates the
Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas file.
Signed-off-by: NAdam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

The current doc still says we call it with the host lock held, which is
going to cause confusion.
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by Bo Yang <bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

This patch adds a new MTIOCTOP operation MTWEOFI that writes filemarks with
immediate bit set. This means that the drive does not flush its buffer and the
next file can be started immediately. This speeds up writing in applications
that have to write multiple small files.
Signed-off-by: NKai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Move SCSI parameters from kernel-parameters.txt to their own text file.

This continues a trend of moving non-core parameters out of
kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.
Signed-off-by: NJustin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: NStephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NStephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.
Signed-off-by: NFrancis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by Bo Yang<bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.
Signed-off-by: NAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by Bo Yang<bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Most code changes were made to support RR44xx adapters.
- add more PCI device ID.
- using PCI BAR[2] to access RR44xx IOP.
- using PCI BAR[0] to check and clear RR44xx IRQ.
Signed-off-by: NHighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: NAnand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Attached is the ELS/CT pass-thru patch for the FC Transport. The patch
creates a generic framework that lays on top of bsg and the SGIO v4 ioctl
in order to pass transaction requests to LLDD's.

The interface supports the following operations:
  On an fc_host basis:
    Request login to the specified N_Port_ID, creating an fc_rport.
    Request logout of the specified N_Port_ID, deleting an fc_rport
    Send ELS request to specified N_Port_ID w/o requiring a login, and
      wait for ELS response.
    Send CT request to specified N_Port_ID and wait for CT response.
      Login is required, but LLDD is allowed to manage login and decide
      whether it stays in place after the request is satisfied.
    Vendor-Unique request. Allows a LLDD-specific request to be passed
      to the LLDD, and the passing of a response back to the application.
  On an fc_rport basis:
    Send ELS request to nport and wait for ELS response.
    Send CT request to nport and wait for CT response.

The patch also exports several headers from include/scsi such that
they can be available to user-space applications:
  include/scsi/scsi.h
  include/scsi/scsi_netlink.h
  include/scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h
  include/scsi/scsi_bsg_fc.h

For further information, refer to the last RFC:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123436574018579&w=2

Note: Documentation is still spotty and will be added later.

[bharrosh@panasas.com: update for new block API]
Signed-off-by: NJames Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Fix various typos in documentation txts.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

changes:

- set aac_cache=2 as default value to avoid performance problem
  (Novell bugzilla #469922)

- Dell/PERC controller boot problem fixed (RedHat bugzilla #457552)

- WWN flag added to fix SLES10 SP1/SP2 drive detection problems

- 64-bit support changes

- DECLARE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro added

- controller type changes
Signed-off-by: NAchim Leubner <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Add osd.txt to Documentation/scsi/
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Reviewed-by: NBenny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Signed-off-by: NKaren Xie <kxie@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull".  After
doing grep "successfull " in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great
minds always think alike :)

This patch fixes all the similar typos. Thanks for Randy's ack and comments.
Signed-off-by: NColy Li <coyli@suse.de>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx

It's spelled "firmware".
Signed-off-by: NNick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than
Signed-off-by: NFrederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

This patch implements the cxgb3i iscsi connection acceleration for the
open-iscsi initiator.

The cxgb3i driver offers the iscsi PDU based offload:
- digest insertion and verification
- payload direct-placement into host memory buffer.
Signed-off-by: NKaren Xie <kxie@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

People can use the real name an an index into MAINTAINERS to find the
current email address.
Signed-off-by: NFrancois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There's already a fc_vport_termintate() call exported by
the transport.  This patch adds a symmetric call to the API to allow
an NPIV-capable LLD to instantiate vports sans user intervention.

Additional comments/updates:

   Re: scsi_fc_transport.txt
     Add a function prototype for fc_vport_terminate similar to what's
     done for fc_vport_create

   Re: fc_vport_create
     I recommend we pass the channel number in fc_vport_create rather
     than fixing it at zero.

     Also, ids->vport_type should be set to FC_PORTTYPE_NPIV prior to
     calling fc_vport_create. The comment is also meaningless.

Added-by and
Signed-off-by: NJames Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Signed-off-by: NBo Yang <bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Update the documented list of products supported by the aacraid driver.
Signed-off-by: NMark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Update the Version and Changelog for megaraid_sas Driver

Signed-off-by: Bo Yang<bo.yang@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Show the current binary tape driver and mode options is sysfs. A file
(options) is created in each directory in /sys/class/scsi_tape. The files
contain masks showing the options. The mask bit definitions are the same as
used when setting the options using the MTSETDRVBUFFER function in the
MTIOCTOP ioctl (defined in include/linux/mtio.h). For example:
> cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/options
0x00000d07

[jejb: updated doc with correction from Randy Dunlap]
Signed-off-by: NKai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

Add new option MT_ST_SILI to enable setting the SILI bit in reads in variable
block mode. If SILI is set, reading a block shorter than the byte count does
not result in CHECK CONDITION. The length of the block is determined using the
residual count from the HBA. Avoiding the REQUEST SENSE command for every
block speeds up some real applications considerably.
Signed-off-by: NKai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

The fix up from Daniel Drake for replacing GFP_DMA with something
more sensible has gone in here:

commit 69e562c2
Author: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Date:   Wed Feb 20 13:29:05 2008 +0000

    [SCSI] arcmsr: fix message allocation

add a change log and update the version for this.
Signed-off-by: NNick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

- add arcmsr_enable_eoi_mode()and readl(reg->iop2drv_doorbell_reg) in
  arcmsr_handle_hbb_isr() on adapter Type B in case of the doorbell
  interrupt clearance is cached

- add conditional declaration for arcmsr_pci_error_detected() and
  arcmsr_pci_slot_reset

- check if the sg list member number exceeds arcmsr default limit in
  arcmsr_build_ccb()

- change the returned value type of arcmsr_build_ccb()from "void" to
  "int" returns FAILED in arcmsr_queue_command()

- modify arcmsr_drain_donequeue() to ignore unknown command and let
  kernel process command timeout.  This could handle IO request violating
  maximum segments, i.e.  Linux XFS over DM-CRYPT.  Thanks to Milan Broz's
  comments <mbroz@redhat.com>

- fix the release of dma memory for type B in arcmsr_free_ccb_pool()

- fix the arcmsr_polling_hbb_ccbdone()
Signed-off-by: NNick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>