Replace SCSI's legacy "bang at the door" method of probing with one
directly controlled by the underlying ATA transport layer.
We now only call scsi_scan_target() for devices we find, rather than
probing every possible channel/id within a certain range.
ATAPI is getting close to being ready. To increase exposure, we enable
the code in the upstream kernel, but default it to off (present
behavior). Users must pass atapi_enabled=1 as a module option (if
module) or on the kernel command line (if built in) to turn on
discovery of their ATAPI devices.
- changes license of all code from OSL+GPL to plain ole GPL
- except for NVIDIA, who hasn't yet responded about sata_nv
- copyright holders were already contacted privately
- adds info in each driver about where hardware/protocol docs may be
obtained
- where I have made major contributions, updated copyright dates
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Jeff Garzik