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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2006-11-02 21:16:08 +0100
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2006-12-07 23:03:49 +0100
commit2a533b179dcfe941ccbe30344d14f39f6d7098ae (patch)
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parentieee1394: sbp2: use list_move_tail() (diff)
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ieee1394: sbp2: update comment on things to do
Some people actually look at those comments. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ieee1394')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c26
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c b/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c
index 2b6d9a0fa737..187e26f0485d 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c
@@ -29,13 +29,27 @@
* driver. It also registers as a SCSI lower-level driver in order to accept
* SCSI commands for transport using SBP-2.
*
- * You may access any attached SBP-2 storage devices as if they were SCSI
- * devices (e.g. mount /dev/sda1, fdisk, mkfs, etc.).
+ * You may access any attached SBP-2 (usually storage devices) as regular
+ * SCSI devices. E.g. mount /dev/sda1, fdisk, mkfs, etc..
*
- * Current Issues:
+ * See http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm#sbp2 for the final draft of the SBP-2
+ * specification and for where to purchase the official standard.
*
- * - Error Handling: SCSI aborts and bus reset requests are handled somewhat
- * but the code needs additional debugging.
+ * TODO:
+ * - look into possible improvements of the SCSI error handlers
+ * - handle Unit_Characteristics.mgt_ORB_timeout and .ORB_size
+ * - handle Logical_Unit_Number.ordered
+ * - handle src == 1 in status blocks
+ * - reimplement the DMA mapping in absence of physical DMA so that
+ * bus_to_virt is no longer required
+ * - debug the handling of absent physical DMA
+ * - replace CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA by automatic detection
+ * (this is easy but depends on the previous two TODO items)
+ * - make the parameter serialize_io configurable per device
+ * - move all requests to fetch agent registers into non-atomic context,
+ * replace all usages of sbp2util_node_write_no_wait by true transactions
+ * - convert to generic DMA mapping API to eliminate dependency on PCI
+ * Grep for inline FIXME comments below.
*/
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
@@ -107,8 +121,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_speed, "Force max speed "
* Set serialize_io to 1 if you'd like only one scsi command sent
* down to us at a time (debugging). This might be necessary for very
* badly behaved sbp2 devices.
- *
- * TODO: Make this configurable per device.
*/
static int sbp2_serialize_io = 1;
module_param_named(serialize_io, sbp2_serialize_io, int, 0444);