Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.ips

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File Facts

System: Linux kernel
Corpus path: Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.ips
Extension: .ips
Size: 5304 bytes
Lines: 123
Domain: Support Tooling And Documentation
Bucket: Documentation
Inferred role: Support Tooling And Documentation: Documentation
Status: atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
Touches user memory; correctness depends on fault-safe copying and privilege boundary handling.

Dependency Surface

No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

IBM ServeRAID driver Change Log
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        5.00.01  - Sarasota ( 5i ) adapters must always be scanned first  
                 - Get rid on IOCTL_NEW_COMMAND code  
                 - Add Extended DCDB Commands for Tape Support in 5I                  
        
        4.90.11  - Don't actually RESET unless it's physically required
                 - Remove unused compile options
        
        4.90.08  - Data Corruption if First Scatter Gather Element is > 64K
        
        4.90.08  - Increase Delays in Flashing ( Trombone Only - 4H )        
        
        4.90.05  - Use New PCI Architecture to facilitate Hot Plug Development
        
        4.90.01  - Add ServeRAID Version Checking

        4.80.26  - Clean up potential code problems ( Arjan's recommendations )
        
        4.80.21  - Change memcpy() to copy_to_user() in NVRAM Page 5 IOCTL path   
        
        4.80.20  - Set max_sectors in Scsi_Host structure ( if >= 2.4.7 kernel )
                 - 5 second delay needed after resetting an i960 adapter
        
        4.80.14  - Take all semaphores off stack                    
                 - Clean Up New_IOCTL path
                   
        4.80.04  - Eliminate calls to strtok() if 2.4.x or greater 
                 - Adjustments to Device Queue Depth               

        4.80.00  - Make ia64 Safe    
        
        4.72.01  - I/O Mapped Memory release ( so "insmod ips" does not Fail )    
                 - Don't Issue Internal FFDC Command if there are Active Commands 
                 - Close Window for getting too many IOCTL's active 
                   
        4.72.00  - Allow for a Scatter-Gather Element to exceed MAX_XFER Size     
        
        4.71.00  - Change all memory allocations to not use GFP_DMA flag 
                 - Code Clean-Up for 2.4.x kernel      
        
        4.70.15  - Fix Breakup for very large ( non-SG ) requests
        
        4.70.13  - Don't release HA Lock in ips_next() until SC taken off queue  
                 - Unregister SCSI device in ips_release()                        
                 - Don't Send CDB's if we already know the device is not present  
                 
        4.70.12  - Corrective actions for bad controller ( during initialization )
        
        4.70.09  - Use a Common ( Large Buffer ) for Flashing from the JCRM CD    
                 - Add IPSSEND Flash Support                                      
                 - Set Sense Data for Unknown SCSI Command                        
                 - Use Slot Number from NVRAM Page 5 
                 - Restore caller's DCDB Structure
                                       
        4.20.14  - Update patch files for kernel 2.4.0-test5

        4.20.13  - Fix some failure cases / reset code
                 - Hook into the reboot_notifier to flush the controller
                   cache

        4.20.03 - Rename version to coincide with new release schedules
                - Performance fixes
                - Fix truncation of /proc files with cat
                - Merge in changes through kernel 2.4.0test1ac21

        4.10.13 - Fix for dynamic unload and proc file system

        4.10.00 - Add support for ServeRAID 4M/4L

Annotation

Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
Implementation status: atlas-only.
This snippet crosses the user/kernel memory boundary; validate fault handling and access checks before translating the pattern.

Implementation Notes

This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.