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2 ** History
3 **
4 **   REV#         DATE             NAME         DESCRIPTION
5 ** 1.00.00.00    3/31/2004       Erich Chen     First release
6 ** 1.10.00.04    7/28/2004       Erich Chen     modify for ioctl
7 ** 1.10.00.06    8/28/2004       Erich Chen     modify for 2.6.x
8 ** 1.10.00.08    9/28/2004       Erich Chen     modify for x86_64
9 ** 1.10.00.10   10/10/2004       Erich Chen     bug fix for SMP & ioctl
10 ** 1.20.00.00   11/29/2004       Erich Chen     bug fix with arcmsr_bus_reset when PHY error
11 ** 1.20.00.02   12/09/2004       Erich Chen     bug fix with over 2T bytes RAID Volume
12 ** 1.20.00.04    1/09/2005       Erich Chen     fits for Debian linux kernel version 2.2.xx
13 ** 1.20.00.05    2/20/2005       Erich Chen     cleanly as look like a Linux driver at 2.6.x
14 **                                              thanks for peoples kindness comment
15 **                                              Kornel Wieliczek
16 **                                              Christoph Hellwig
17 **                                              Adrian Bunk
18 **                                              Andrew Morton
19 **                                              Christoph Hellwig
20 **                                              James Bottomley
21 **                                              Arjan van de Ven
22 ** 1.20.00.06    3/12/2005       Erich Chen     fix with arcmsr_pci_unmap_dma "unsigned long" cast,
23 **                                              modify PCCB POOL allocated by "dma_alloc_coherent"
24 **                                              (Kornel Wieliczek's comment)
25 ** 1.20.00.07    3/23/2005       Erich Chen     bug fix with arcmsr_scsi_host_template_init
26 **                                              occur segmentation fault,
27 **                                              if RAID adapter does not on PCI slot
28 **                                              and modprobe/rmmod this driver twice.
29 **                                              bug fix enormous stack usage (Adrian Bunk's comment)
30 ** 1.20.00.08    6/23/2005       Erich Chen     bug fix with abort command,
31 **                                              in case of heavy loading when sata cable
32 **                                              working on low quality connection
33 ** 1.20.00.09    9/12/2005       Erich Chen     bug fix with abort command handling, firmware version check
34 **                                              and firmware update notify for hardware bug fix
35 ** 1.20.00.10    9/23/2005       Erich Chen     enhance sysfs function for change driver's max tag Q number.
36 **                                              add DMA_64BIT_MASK for backward compatible with all 2.6.x
37 **                                              add some useful message for abort command
38 **                                              add ioctl code 'ARCMSR_IOCTL_FLUSH_ADAPTER_CACHE'
39 **                                              customer can send this command for sync raid volume data
40 ** 1.20.00.11    9/29/2005       Erich Chen     by comment of Arjan van de Ven fix incorrect msleep redefine
41 **                                              cast off sizeof(dma_addr_t) condition for 64bit pci_set_dma_mask
42 ** 1.20.00.12    9/30/2005       Erich Chen     bug fix with 64bit platform's ccbs using if over 4G system memory
43 **                                              change 64bit pci_set_consistent_dma_mask into 32bit
44 **                                              increcct adapter count if adapter initialize fail.
45 **                                              miss edit at arcmsr_build_ccb....
46 **                                              psge += sizeof(struct _SG64ENTRY *) =>
47 **                                              psge += sizeof(struct _SG64ENTRY)
48 **                                              64 bits sg entry would be incorrectly calculated
49 **                                              thanks Kornel Wieliczek give me kindly notify
50 **                                              and detail description
51 ** 1.20.00.13   11/15/2005       Erich Chen     scheduling pending ccb with FIFO
52 **                                              change the architecture of arcmsr command queue list
53 **                                              for linux standard list
54 **                                              enable usage of pci message signal interrupt
55 **                                              follow Randy.Danlup kindness suggestion cleanup this code
56 ** 1.20.00.14   05/02/2007       Erich Chen & Nick Cheng
57 **                                              1.implement PCI-Express error recovery function and AER capability
58 **                                              2.implement the selection of ARCMSR_MAX_XFER_SECTORS_B=4096
59 **                                              if firmware version is newer than 1.42
60 **                                              3.modify arcmsr_iop_reset to improve the ability
61 **                                              4.modify the ISR, arcmsr_interrupt routine,to prevent the
62 **                                              inconsistency with sg_mod driver if application directly calls
63 **                                              the arcmsr driver w/o passing through scsi mid layer
64 **                                              specially thanks to Yanmin Zhang's openhanded help about AER
65 ** 1.20.00.15   08/30/2007       Erich Chen & Nick Cheng
66 **                                              1. support ARC1200/1201/1202 SATA RAID adapter, which is named
67 **                                              ACB_ADAPTER_TYPE_B
68 **                                              2. modify the arcmsr_pci_slot_reset function
69 **                                              3. modify the arcmsr_pci_ers_disconnect_forepart function
70 **                                              4. modify the arcmsr_pci_ers_need_reset_forepart function
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