Hi,

the patch below marks several libata (and libata-driver) structures
const so that they end up in the .rodata segment and don't false-share
cachelines with things that get dirtied often.
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

A few drivers were not following the standard meme of printing out
their driver name and version at module load time; this is fixed
as well.

The second argument to ata_qc_complete() was being used for two
purposes: communicate the ATA Status register to the completion
function, and indicate an error.  On legacy PCI IDE hardware, the latter
is often implicit in the former.  On more modern hardware, the driver
often completely emulated a Status register value, passing ATA_ERR as an
indication that something went wrong.

Now that previous code changes have eliminated the need to use drv_stat
arg to communicate the ATA Status register value, we can convert it to a
mask of possible error classes.

This will lead to more flexible error handling in the future.

I'm using this card in a RAID1 with 2 new SATA drives with no problems.

Card - SATA 300 TX2plus  PDC40775 (3d73)
Signed-off-by: NEd Kear <ed@kear.net>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

Contributed by Daniel Mueller @ Siemens AG.

Enforce access rules where appropriate.

If the compiler is smart enough, this may buy us an optimization or two
as a side effect.

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NAlbert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

- changes license of all code from OSL+GPL to plain ole GPL
  - except for NVIDIA, who hasn't yet responded about sata_nv
  - copyright holders were already contacted privately

- adds info in each driver about where hardware/protocol docs may be
  obtained

- where I have made major contributions, updated copyright dates

Wrap ata_qc_complete() calls in EH context in spinlocks, to prevent
races (mainly in ATAPI code paths).

- bump versions where necessary
- remove two duplicated+outdated doc comments
- add MODULE_VERSION() to AHCI driver

Interrupts from devices sharing the same IRQ could cause
ata_host_intr to finish commands being processed by atapi_packet_task
if the commands are using ATA_PROT_ATAPI_NODATA or ATA_PROT_ATAPI_DMA
protocol.  This is because libata interrupt handler is unaware that
interrupts are not expected during that period.  This patch adds
ATA_FLAG_NOINTR flag to tell the interrupt handler that we're not
expecting interrupts.

 Note that once proper HSM is implemented for interrupt-driven PIO,
this should be merged into it and this flag will be removed.

 ahci.c is a different kind of beast, so it's left alone.

* The following drivers use ata_qc_issue_prot and ata_interrupt, so
  changes in libata core will do.

  ata_piix sata_sil sata_svw sata_via sata_sis sata_uli

* The following drivers use ata_qc_issue_prot and custom intr handler.
  They need this change to work correctly.

  sata_nv sata_vsc

* The following drivers use custom issue function and intr handler.
  Currently all custom issue functions don't support ATAPI, so this
  change is irrelevant, updated for consistency and to avoid later
  mistakes.

  sata_promise sata_qstor sata_sx4
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

The Promise TX4200 is a 4-port SATA controller based on the PDC40519 chip. It
meets the description of the 20319, so just a simple ID needs to be added to
support this hardware. Thanks to Martin Povolný for testing.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

Otto Meier recently submitted a patch to support the PDC40718 chip (marketed
as SATA300 TX4, a 4-port SATA controller).
Signed-off-by: NOtto Meier <gf435@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

Jens Axboe pointed out that the iounmap() call in libata was occurring
too early, and some drivers (ahci, probably others) were using ioremap'd
memory after it had been unmapped.

The patch should address that problem by way of improving the libata
driver API:

* move ->host_stop() call after all ->port_stop() calls have occurred.

* create default helper function ata_host_stop(), and move iounmap()
call there.

* add ->host_stop_prewalk() hook, use it in sata_qstor.c (hi Mark).
sata_qstor appears to require the host-stop-before-port-stop ordering
that existed prior to applying the attached patch.

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!