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| author | Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> | 2004-05-03 23:12:32 -0500 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)> | 2004-05-03 23:12:32 -0500 |
| commit | 4e629872da4ed6690c907270c48c8b418c3bf694 (patch) | |
| tree | 462374af2c4769da6f9def3fa73b4941e4c59237 /Documentation | |
| parent | 96a3b84728bd73e1ecb5ee1cc4322ce885fe44e3 (diff) | |
| download | history-4e629872da4ed6690c907270c48c8b418c3bf694.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] sym53c500_cs PCMCIA SCSI driver (round 5)
Fifth attempt at a PCMCIA SCSI driver for the Symbios 53c500
controller. This version has all the cleanup Christoph has requested
to date, including removal of support for the obsolete (in 2.6)
proc_info functionality.
Support for additional sysfs class device attributes has been added:
two are read-only (irq, ioport), one is read-write (fast_pio). The
read-write attribute is a per-instance flag indicating the PIO speed
of the particular HBA: valid values are 1 (enabled -- default) and 0
(disabled).
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scsi/sym53c500_cs.txt | 23 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX b/Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX index bc2e4bdf6f1229..f9cb5bdcce4183 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ scsi_mid_low_api.txt - info on API between SCSI layer and low level drivers st.txt - info on scsi tape driver +sym53c500_cs.txt + - info on PCMCIA driver for Symbios Logic 53c500 based adapters sym53c8xx_2.txt - info on second generation driver for sym53c8xx based adapters tmscsim.txt diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c500_cs.txt b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c500_cs.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..75febcf9298ca0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c500_cs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The sym53c500_cs driver originated as an add-on to David Hinds' pcmcia-cs +package, and was written by Tom Corner (tcorner@via.at). A rewrite was +long overdue, and the current version addresses the following concerns: + + (1) extensive kernel changes between 2.4 and 2.6. + (2) deprecated PCMCIA support outside the kernel. + +All the USE_BIOS code has been ripped out. It was never used, and could +not have worked anyway. The USE_DMA code is likewise gone. Many thanks +to YOKOTA Hiroshi (nsp_cs driver) and David Hinds (qlogic_cs driver) for +the code fragments I shamelessly adapted for this work. Thanks also to +Christoph Hellwig for his patient tutelage while I stumbled about. + +The Symbios Logic 53c500 chip was used in the "newer" (circa 1997) version +of the New Media Bus Toaster PCMCIA SCSI controller. Presumably there are +other products using this chip, but I've never laid eyes (much less hands) +on one. + +Through the years, there have been a number of downloads of the pcmcia-cs +version of this driver, and I guess it worked for those users. It worked +for Tom Corner, and it works for me. Your mileage will probably vary. + +--Bob Tracy (rct@frus.com) |