Since the QLogic qla2x00t git repository is no longer online, remove all
references to that repository.
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Since the zero-copy patch is no longer supported it is no longer necessary
to rebuild the kernel in order to use SCST.
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Add instructions for how to download and install the 16 Gb/s FC HBA
driver. Remove the "optional step" since this step should not be
needed after various recent fixes in the SCST makefiles. Recommend
to blacklist the distro QLA initiator driver even if the kernel is
not being rebuilt.
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Changes in this patch:
- Rework the SCSI pass-through code such that for kernel versions
>= 2.6.30 the scst_exec_req_fifo patch is no longer needed.
- Modify the pass-through code such that blk_rq_append_bio() is only
called for kernel version 2.6.30. For later kernel versions
blk_make_request() is called instead.
- Rework scst_scsi_exec_async().
- Add debug tracing of SCSI pass-through result status.
- Add a lockdep_assert_held() call in scsi_end_async().
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Some users think these instructions are not valid for Linux 3.x kernels
since there are examples in this document referring to a 2.6.x kernel.
Hence update the examples.
Explain how to discover initiator port WWNs since this is nontrivial for
novice users.
Update the SourceForge SVN SCST URL since it changed a few months ago.
Move the qla2xxx module unload step to after the system reboot. Performing
that step after the reboot even though that module has already been
blacklisted is necessary because at that time initrd has not yet been
rebuilt and hence a reboot can cause that module to be reloaded from initrd.
The steps for building and installing SCST itself have been reduced from
four commands into a single command.
The sample scst.conf file is now generated - local FC port WWNs are
discovered automatically.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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Clarify the qla2x00t how-to where necessary:
- Add instructions to unload the upstream qla2xxx kernel module
before starting to build the SCST qla2xxx kernel modules.
- Change the name qla2xxx into qla2xxx_scst in the step for
loading kernel modules.
- Replace the instructions for removing the distro-provided qla2xxx kernel
module by instructions for blacklisting that module and rebuilding the
initial RAM disk.
- Prepend all commands that have to be executed by the user by a prompt.
- Add instructions for RHEL / SUSE next to Debian.
- Shortened Debian kernel development package list.
Markup changes:
- Use a CSS style attribute to specify the distance between steps instead of
using <br><br><br>.
- Add a missing </li> tag.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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As Mikko Kortelainen <kordex@gmail.com> explained on the SCST IRC
channel, it's not necessary to replace the qla2xxx directory in the
kernel source tree in order to build the SCST qla2x00t target driver.
Also, if neither SCSI pass-through nor iSCSI will be used rebuilding
the kernel tree can be skipped entirely. The patch below updates the
qla2x00t howto accordingly, and also implements the following changes:
- Fix everything the W3C HTML validator complains about:
- Add DOCTYPE declaration.
- Add charset declaration.
- Change </br> into <br> since </br> is invalid.
- Change one occurrence of & into &.
- Use proper HTML constructs for numbered and unnumbered enumerations.
- Use a fixed-sized font and the brown color for all computer output
text (via inline CSS).
- Use hyperlinks to refer to other steps.
- Fix spelling errors.
- Merge the Debian and non-Debian howto's because the differences are
so small that it's not justified to maintain two different documents.
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from the previous state. Hence, the corresponding labels were renamed to
2debug, 2release and 2perf.
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