New Areca driver in 2.6.16-rc6-mm2

[Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> SCSI fixes
>
> +areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update4.patch
>
> Update areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch

Has anyone had a chance to review this new update to see if it now passes 
muster for mainline inclusion?

As a owner of Areca hardware I sure appreciate the responsiveness and work 
they have done in respects to Linux support. Thanks to Randy, Christoph, 
Randy and others for their work as well!

Dax Kelson

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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc6/2.6.16-rc6-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc6/2.6.16-rc6-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update4.patch


From: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>

  1- remove internal queueing
  2- remove odd ioctls
  3- remove useless forward prototypes
  4- give types like ACB useful names
  5- give variable useful names, especially follow kernel conventions,
     e.g. a struct pci_dev is usually named pdev
  6- kill ->proc_info method
  7- use normal comment style even for comments not fitting into the
     kernel-doc item above.  kill useless separator comments without
     text
  8- convert arcmsr_show_firmware_info to useful one value per
     file attributes.
  9- convert arcmsr_show_driver_state to useful one value per
     file attributes.
 10- remove never called release method in the host template
 11- remove shutdown notifier, add pci_driver ->shutdown method instead
 12- remove CameCase PCI Ids.  The vendor Id should go into pci_ids.h,
     the device ids either removed or spelled the normal linux way
 13- arcmsr_do_interrupt should stop walking the global host list
     and use the private data passed to request_irq
 14- the global host list go away completely
 15- locking to be redone.
 16- arcmsr_device_probe rewritten to do goto-based
     error unwinding.
 17- remove msi options
 18- remove arcmsr_scsi_host_template_init
 19- the hardware documentation move from arcmsr.h
     into a separate file (Documentation/scsi/arcmsr_spec.txt)
 20- remove the SCSISTAT_* defines
 21- split arcmsr.c into arcmsr_attr.c from arcmsr_hba.c
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