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lpfc: add Emulex FC driver version 8.0.28
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Modified for kernel import and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
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LPFC Driver Release Notes:

=============================================================================


IMPORTANT:

Starting in the 8.0.17 release, the driver began to be targeted strictly
toward the upstream kernel. As such, we removed #ifdefs for older kernels
(pre 2.6.10). The 8.0.16 release should be used if the driver is to be
run on one of the older kernels.

The proposed modifications to the transport layer for FC remote ports
and extended attribute support is now part of the upstream kernel
as of 2.6.12. We no longer need to provide patches for this support,
nor a *full* version which has old an new kernel support.

The driver now requires a 2.6.12 (if pre-release, 2.6.12-rc1) or later
kernel.

Please heed these dependencies....


********************************************************************


The following information is provided for additional background on the
history of the driver as we push for upstream acceptance.

Cable pull and temporary device Loss:

In older revisions of the lpfc driver, the driver internally queued i/o
received from the midlayer. In the cases where a cable was pulled, link
jitter, or a device temporarily loses connectivity (due to its cable
being removed, a switch rebooting, or a device reboot), the driver could
hide the disappearance of the device from the midlayer. I/O's issued to
the LLDD would simply be queued for a short duration, allowing the device
to reappear or link come back alive, with no inadvertant side effects
to the system. If the driver did not hide these conditions, i/o would be
errored by the driver, the mid-layer would exhaust its retries, and the
device would be taken offline. Manual intervention would be required to
re-enable the device.

The community supporting kernel.org has driven an effort to remove
internal queuing from all LLDDs. The philosophy is that internal
queuing is unnecessary as the block layer already performs the
queuing. Removing the queues from the LLDD makes a more predictable
and more simple LLDD.

As a potential new addition to kernel.org, the 8.x driver was asked to
have all internal queuing removed. Emulex complied with this request.
In explaining the impacts of this change, Emulex has worked with the
community in modifying the behavior of the SCSI midlayer so that SCSI
devices can be temporarily suspended while transport events (such as
those described) can occur.

The proposed patch was posted to the linux-scsi mailing list. The patch
is contained in the 2.6.10-rc2 (and later) patch kits. As such, this
patch is part of the standard 2.6.10 kernel.

By default, the driver expects the patches for block/unblock interfaces
to be present in the kernel. No #define needs to be set to enable support.


Kernel Support

This source package is targeted for the upstream kernel only. (See notes
at the top of this file). It relies on interfaces that are slowing
migrating into the kernel.org kernel.

At this time, the driver requires the 2.6.12 (if pre-release, 2.6.12-rc1)
kernel.

If a driver is needed for older kernels please utilize the 8.0.16
driver sources.


Patches

Thankfully, at this time, patches are not needed.


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source "drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Kconfig"

config SCSI_LPFC
tristate "Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel Support"
depends on PCI && SCSI
select SCSI_FC_ATTRS
help
This lpfc driver supports the Emulex LightPulse
Family of Fibre Channel PCI host adapters.

config SCSI_SEAGATE
tristate "Seagate ST-02 and Future Domain TMC-8xx SCSI support"
depends on X86 && ISA && SCSI && BROKEN
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obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC) += qlogicfc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280) += qla1280.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX) += qla2xxx/
obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_LPFC) += lpfc/
obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16) += pas16.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE) += seagate.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_FD_8xx) += seagate.o
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#/*******************************************************************
# * This file is part of the Emulex Linux Device Driver for *
# * Enterprise Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters. *
# * Refer to the README file included with this package for *
# * driver version and adapter support. *
# * Copyright (C) 2004 Emulex Corporation. *
# * www.emulex.com *
# * *
# * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or *
# * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License *
# * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 *
# * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. *
# * *
# * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, *
# * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of *
# * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the *
# * GNU General Public License for more details, a copy of which *
# * can be found in the file COPYING included with this package. *
# *******************************************************************/
######################################################################

#$Id: Makefile 1.58 2005/01/23 19:00:32EST sf_support Exp $

ifneq ($(GCOV),)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -O0
endif

obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_LPFC) := lpfc.o

lpfc-objs := lpfc_mem.o lpfc_sli.o lpfc_ct.o lpfc_els.o lpfc_hbadisc.o \
lpfc_init.o lpfc_mbox.o lpfc_nportdisc.o lpfc_scsi.o lpfc_attr.o
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