The problem is during the removal of the failover and IOCTL code
from the scsi-qla2xxx-2.6 tree, one critical piece of code
(a one-liner) was inadvertently removed that effectively disables
the drivers ability to bind fcports (devices found in the loop
or fabric) to the SCSI nexus (h/b/t/l).

I am attaching the latest patch for qla1280, which includes Andrew's and
James' patches (modulo the 64 bit enable part) as well changes to make
it handle pci_set_dma_mask() correctly and switch to only use one of the
two SCSI command issuing versions depending on whether the driver is
compiled for 64 or 32 bit DMA. The old code effectively did this anyway,
but with this change it is no longer compiling in the part not used.

This patch fixes a bug in scsi_eh_flush_done_q when the allowed count has
been exceeded and the command errored for a timeout. The bug is that the
result will be left at zero and the command finished.

 patched-scsi-misc-2.7-andmike/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c |   28 +++++++---------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Stop adding sysfs attributes after we call scsi_remove_device()
when we encounter an error.  Also a small whitespace cleanup
and removing a useless "return".

From: Thomas Schlichter <thomas.schlichter@web.de>

the attached patch fixes a link error of the kernel module 'drivers/scsi/
pcmcia/aha152x_cs.ko' because of two module_init() and two module_exit() 
functions. Now the module links but I did not test it further...

drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h:1139: warning: unnamed struct/union that defines no instances
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c:440: union has no member named `standard'

Older gcc's don't understand anonymous unions.

into evo.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into evo.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

Thanks to DaveM.

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

Obviously almost noone uses the pdeath_signal feature, since this has gone
unnoticed for quite some time.

This patch calls the function that does the right locking for the context
of this call (inside exit_notify).  The names of the signal.c entrypoints
are a little confusing.

The spinlock was held while calling functions that could block,
while simultaneously being at all times inside the context of
module init/exit.

Thanks to DaveM.

	correctly even on 32-bit hosts. As an added bonus, it's faster,
	too.  Run "unwcheck" by default, but for now, don't let unwcheck
	errors cause the kernel build to fail.

into evo.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

This patch fixes DMA bugs on x86-64 and ia64 machines.  The driver was
using commands that only support 32bit addresses in places that could
return 64bit addresses.  One place was DMAing off the stack.  The other
place was causing problems on x86-64 machines by calling pci_map()
functions on a region allocated by pci_alloc_consistent().

This patch fixes two minor bugs.  It allows zero length write commands
through to devices.  It also prevents the writing of any  '\0'
characters at the end of version numbers to ips's /proc/scsi files.

From: "Andrew Vasquez" <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>

With additional changes from: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
                              "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>

This is the qlogic driver version 8.00.00b7 with the ioctl and failover code stripped
out and a few associated fixes put in.

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

The problem is that the detect function requests an IO region
of 16 bytes (at least when a command line override parameter is
used) but the release function only tries to release 8 bytes,
and this request isn't done because it doesn't match any allocated
IO region.  [NCR53C400 extensions are not enabled, so
NCR5380_region_size is 8, not 16, but the request uses
NCR5380_region_size regardless.]

Fix: save the allocated region size in instance->n_io_ports and release
   that size only;

Fixes build on some platforms.

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/net-drivers-2.5

  This was broken by the last commit for cdev stuff which removed the
  "int ret;" that these routines used.

  Retire our char device dispatching logic.  With the 2.6 cdev API we
  can register much smaller device number regions, so we use that instead.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:02:08PM +0300, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> The final kernel could not pass linking stage with 2.1.18f version
> (included into 2.6.1 kernel patch).
> The linker complains that :
> drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x8cec): In function 'sym2_probe':
> : undfined reference to 'local symbols in discarded section .exit.text'
>
> I compared arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S with one from the i386 tree.
> The '.exit.text' and '.exit.data'
> sections were moved out of DISCARD attributes in the i386 version. I did
> the same with alpha version
> and it helped.

Thanks for this report; you uncovered a real bug.  Actually two real
bugs; one is that parisc is not discarding the .init.text and .exit.text
sections (so I didn't notice this bug) and the other is that sym_detach
is marked __devexit, yet called from a __devinit function.