+Release Date : Mon Apr 11 12:27:22 EST 2006 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.8 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.7 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
+
+1. Fixed a bug in megaraid_reset_handler().
+ Customer reported "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
+ at virtual address 00000000" when system goes to reset condition
+ for some reason. It happened randomly.
+ Root Cause: in the megaraid_reset_handler(), there is possibility not
+ returning pending packets in the pend_list if there are multiple
+ pending packets.
+ Fix: Made the change in the driver so that it will return all packets
+ in the pend_list.
+
+2. Added change request.
+ As found in the following URL, rmb() only didn't help the
+ problem. I had to increase the loop counter to 0xFFFFFF. (6 F's)
+ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=110971060502497&w=2
+
+ I attached a patch for your reference, too.
+ Could you check and get this fix in your driver?
+
+ Best Regards,
+ Jun'ichi Nomura
+
+Release Date : Fri Nov 11 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.7 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.6 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
+
+1. Sorted out PCI IDs to remove megaraid support overlaps.
+ Based on the patch from Daniel, sorted out PCI IDs along with
+ charactor node name change from 'megadev' to 'megadev_legacy' to avoid
+ conflict.
+ ---
+ Hopefully we'll be getting the build restriction zapped much sooner,
+ but we should also be thinking about totally removing the hardware
+ support overlap in the megaraid drivers.
+
+ This patch pencils in a date of Feb 06 for this, and performs some
+ printk abuse in hope that existing legacy users might pick up on what's
+ going on.
+
+ Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
+ ---
+
+2. Fixed a issue: megaraid always fails to reset handler.
+ ---
+ I found that the megaraid driver always fails to reset the
+ adapter with the following message:
+ megaraid: resetting the host...
+ megaraid mbox: reset sequence completed successfully
+ megaraid: fast sync command timed out
+ megaraid: reservation reset failed
+ when the "Cluster mode" of the adapter BIOS is enabled.
+ So, whenever the reset occurs, the adapter goes to
+ offline and just become unavailable.
+
+ Jun'ichi Nomura [mailto:jnomura@mtc.biglobe.ne.jp]
+ ---
+
+Release Date : Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.6 (scsi module), 2.20.2.6 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
+
+1. Added IOCTL backward compatibility.
+ Convert megaraid_mm driver to new compat_ioctl entry points.
+ I don't have easy access to hardware, so only compile tested.
+ - Signed-off-by:Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
+
+2. megaraid_mbox fix: wrong order of arguments in memset()
+ That, BTW, shows why cross-builds are useful-the only indication of
+ problem had been a new warning showing up in sparse output on alpha
+ build (number of exceeding 256 got truncated).
+ - Signed-off-by: Al Viro
+ <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
+
+3. Convert pci_module_init to pci_register_driver
+ Convert from pci_module_init to pci_register_driver
+ (from:http://kerneljanitors.org/TODO)
+ - Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
+
+4. Use the pre defined DMA mask constants from dma-mapping.h
+ Use the DMA_{64,32}BIT_MASK constants from dma-mapping.h when calling
+ pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistend_dma_mask(). See
+ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for more
+ details.
+ Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
+ Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
+
+5. Remove SSID checking for Dobson, Lindsay, and Verde based products.
+ Checking the SSVID/SSID for controllers which have Dobson, Lindsay,
+ and Verde is unnecessary because device ID has been assigned by LSI
+ and it is unique value. So, all controllers with these IOPs have to be
+ supported by the driver regardless SSVID/SSID.
+
+6. Date Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:31:09 +0100
+ From Herbert Poetzl <>
+ Subject RFC: assert_spin_locked() for 2.6
+
+ Greetings!
+
+ overcautious programming will kill your kernel ;)
+ ever thought about checking a spin_lock or even
+ asserting that it must be held (maybe just for
+ spinlock debugging?) ...
+
+ there are several checks present in the kernel
+ where somebody does a variation on the following:
+
+ BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&some_lock));
+
+ so what's wrong about that? nothing, unless you
+ compile the code with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK but
+ without CONFIG_SMP ... in which case the BUG()
+ will kill your kernel ...
+
+ maybe it's not advised to make such assertions,
+ but here is a solution which works for me ...
+ (compile tested for sh, x86_64 and x86, boot/run
+ tested for x86 only)
+
+ best,
+ Herbert
+
+ - Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>, Thu, 27 Jan 2005
+
+Release Date : Thu Feb 03 12:27:22 EST 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.5 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
+
+1. Modified name of two attributes in scsi_host_template.
+ On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:56 -0500, Ju, Seokmann wrote:
+ > + .sdev_attrs = megaraid_device_attrs,
+ > + .shost_attrs = megaraid_class_device_attrs,
+
+ These are, perhaps, slightly confusing names.
+ The terms device and class_device have well defined meanings in the
+ generic device model, neither of which is what you mean here.
+ Why not simply megaraid_sdev_attrs and megaraid_shost_attrs?
+
+ Other than this, it looks fine to me too.
+
+Release Date : Thu Jan 27 00:01:03 EST 2005 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.4 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.3 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
+
+1. Bump up the version of scsi module due to its conflict.
+
+Release Date : Thu Jan 21 00:01:03 EST 2005 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.3 (scsi module), 2.20.2.5 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.2 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
+
+1. Remove driver ioctl for logical drive to scsi address translation and
+ replace with the sysfs attribute. To remove drives and change
+ capacity, application shall now use the device attribute to get the
+ logical drive number for a scsi device. For adding newly created
+ logical drives, class device attribute would be required to uniquely
+ identify each controller.
+ - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
+
+ "James, I've been thinking about this a little more, and you may be on
+ to something here. Let each driver add files as such:"
+
+ - Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, 12.15.2004
+ linux-scsi mailing list
+
+
+ "Then, if you simply publish your LD number as an extra parameter of
+ the device, you can look through /sys to find it."
+
+ - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 01.03.2005
+ linux-scsi mailing list
+
+
+ "I don't see why not ... it's your driver, you can publish whatever
+ extra information you need as scsi_device attributes; that was one of
+ the designs of the extensible attribute system."
+
+ - James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>, 01.06.2005
+ linux-scsi mailing list
+
+2. Add AMI megaraid support - Brian King <brking@charter.net>
+ PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMI_MEGARAID3,
+ PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMI, PCI_SUBSYS_ID_PERC3_DC,
+
+3. Make some code static - Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+ Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:14:57 +0100
+
+ The patch below makes some needlessly global code static.
+ -wait_queue_head_t wait_q;
+ +static wait_queue_head_t wait_q;
+
+ Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+
+4. Added NEC ROMB support - NEC MegaRAID PCI Express ROMB controller
+ PCI_VENDOR_ID_LSI_LOGIC, PCI_DEVICE_ID_MEGARAID_NEC_ROMB_2E,
+ PCI_SUBSYS_ID_NEC, PCI_SUBSYS_ID_MEGARAID_NEC_ROMB_2E,
+
+5. Fixed Tape drive issue : For any Direct CDB command to physical device
+ including tape, timeout value set by driver was 10 minutes. With this
+ value, most of command will return within timeout. However, for those
+ command like ERASE or FORMAT, it takes more than an hour depends on
+ capacity of the device and the command could be terminated before it
+ completes.
+ To address this issue, the 'timeout' field in the DCDB command will
+ have NO TIMEOUT (i.e., 4) value as its timeout on DCDB command.
+
+
+
+Release Date : Thu Dec 9 19:10:23 EST 2004
+ - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
+
+Current Version : 2.20.4.2 (scsi module), 2.20.2.4 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.3 (cmm module)
+
+i. Introduced driver ioctl that returns scsi address for a given ld.
+
+ "Why can't the existing sysfs interfaces be used to do this?"
+ - Brian King (brking@us.ibm.com)
+
+ "I've looked into solving this another way, but I cannot see how
+ to get this driver-private mapping of logical drive number-> HCTL
+ without putting code something like this into the driver."
+
+ "...and by providing a mapping a function to userspace, the driver
+ is free to change its mapping algorithm in the future if necessary .."
+ - Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@dell.com)
+
+Release Date : Thu Dec 9 19:02:14 EST 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
+
+Current Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.3 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.2 (cmm module)
+
+i. Fix a bug in kioc's dma buffer deallocation
+
+Release Date : Thu Nov 4 18:24:56 EST 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
+
+Current Version : 2.20.4.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.2 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.1 (cmm module)
+
+i. Handle IOCTL cmd timeouts more properly.
+
+ii. pci_dma_sync_{sg,single}_for_cpu was introduced into megaraid_mbox
+ incorrectly (instead of _for_device). Changed to appropriate
+ pci_dma_sync_{sg,single}_for_device.
+
+Release Date : Wed Oct 06 11:15:29 EDT 2004 - Sreenivas Bagalkote <sreenib@lsil.com>
+Current Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.1 (cmm module)
+Older Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
+
+i. Remove CONFIG_COMPAT around register_ioctl32_conversion
+
Release Date : Mon Sep 27 22:15:07 EDT 2004 - Atul Mukker <atulm@lsil.com>
Current Version : 2.20.4.0 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
Older Version : 2.20.3.1 (scsi module), 2.20.2.0 (cmm module)
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