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author | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700 |
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committer | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 15:44:42 -0700 |
commit | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (patch) | |
tree | 1c9cafbcd35f783a87880a10f85d1a060db1a563 /kernel/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt | |
parent | 98260f3884f4a202f9ca5eabed40b1354c489b29 (diff) |
Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt b/kernel/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3d99d38cb --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/scsi/scsi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +SCSI subsystem documentation +============================ +The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) maintains a document describing +the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel (lk) 2.4 series. See: +http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO . The LDP has single +and multiple page HTML renderings as well as postscript and pdf. +It can also be found at: +http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO + +Notes on using modules in the SCSI subsystem +============================================ +The scsi support in the linux kernel can be modularized in a number of +different ways depending upon the needs of the end user. To understand +your options, we should first define a few terms. + +The scsi-core (also known as the "mid level") contains the core of scsi +support. Without it you can do nothing with any of the other scsi drivers. +The scsi core support can be a module (scsi_mod.o), or it can be built into +the kernel. If the core is a module, it must be the first scsi module +loaded, and if you unload the modules, it will have to be the last one +unloaded. In practice the modprobe and rmmod commands (and "autoclean") +will enforce the correct ordering of loading and unloading modules in +the SCSI subsystem. + +The individual upper and lower level drivers can be loaded in any order +once the scsi core is present in the kernel (either compiled in or loaded +as a module). The disk driver (sd_mod.o), cdrom driver (sr_mod.o), +tape driver ** (st.o) and scsi generics driver (sg.o) represent the upper +level drivers to support the various assorted devices which can be +controlled. You can for example load the tape driver to use the tape drive, +and then unload it once you have no further need for the driver (and release +the associated memory). + +The lower level drivers are the ones that support the individual cards that +are supported for the hardware platform that you are running under. Those +individual cards are often called Host Bus Adapters (HBAs). For example the +aic7xxx.o driver is used to control all recent SCSI controller cards from +Adaptec. Almost all lower level drivers can be built either as modules or +built into the kernel. + + +** There is a variant of the st driver for controlling OnStream tape + devices. Its module name is osst.o . + |