[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add full firmware(-request) hotplug support for all ISPs.
authorAndrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:49:04 +0000 (15:49 -0800)
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)>
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:11:16 +0000 (18:11 -0700)
commit5433383ef33ed40c9c8a86a4355da344234af2a5
tree8d82c620fe6faadfa805fb465d5beb67946133c7
parent26a68019c86e1d1782984a7a5babff762cde1501
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add full firmware(-request) hotplug support for all ISPs.

Transition driver to exclusively use the request_firmware()
interfaces to retrieve firmware-blobs from user-space.  This
will be the default behaviour going forward until the
embedded firmware-binary images are removed from the
upstream kernel.

Upon request, the driver caches the firmware image until the
driver is unloaded.

NOTE: The option is present to allow the user to continue to
use the firmware-loader modules, but, should be considered
deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Kconfig
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Makefile
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c