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1 | Fixlist for Linux IBM Tape Device Driver (lin_tape)\r |
| 2 | \r | |
| 3 | (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2007-2023\r | |
| 4 | \r | |
| 5 | Level Date Description\r | |
| 6 | ---------------------------------------------------------------\r | |
| 7 | 3.0.66 09/29/2023 - Initial support for SLES 15 SP5 (min. kernel 5.14.21-150500)\r | |
| 8 | 3.0.65 08/22/2023 - Initial support for RHEL 9.2 (no join driver)\r | |
| 9 | - Initial support for RHEL 8.8\r | |
| 10 | - Changed print auto timeouts retrieval fails to only print when debug enabled\r | |
| 11 | - Support for TS1170\r | |
| 12 | 3.0.64 02/10/2023 - Initial support for RHEL 9.1 (min. kernel 5.14.0-162 x86_64, ppc64le)\r | |
| 13 | 02/03/2023 - Fix to attach when inq p0x83 not available\r | |
| 14 | - Initial support for RHEL 8.7 (min. kernel 4.18.0-425)\r | |
| 15 | - Fix to get sense data on kernel >= 5.14\r | |
| 16 | 3.0.63 10/07/2022 - Initial support for SLES15 SP4 (min. 5.14.21-150400.22.1)\r | |
| 17 | - Work around to allow vpd gather on sles15 sp4\r | |
| 18 | 3.0.61 09/02/2022 - Initial support for RHEL 9.0 (min. kernel 5.14.0-70 no join driver support)\r | |
| 19 | 3.0.60 07/08/2021 - Initial support for RHEL 8.6 (min. kernel 4.18.0-372)\r | |
| 20 | - New TSM IOCTL\r | |
| 21 | 3.0.59 01/26/2021 - Initial support for RHEL 8.5 \r | |
| 22 | 11/11/2021 - Fix for passthru s/g buffers on read/write\r | |
| 23 | - Fix for st crash on unsupported cmd\r | |
| 24 | - Removed excesive prints for get timeouts\r | |
| 25 | - Support for LTO9\r | |
| 26 | 3.0.58 10/25/2021 - New lin_tape_ignoreOEM parameter\r | |
| 27 | - Fix for crash on join driver st interface buffer >= 2MB\r | |
| 28 | - Removed timouts initialization table from attachment to avoid delays on device becoming ready\r | |
| 29 | - CPF change to attempt a max of 2 retries when hardware error\r | |
| 30 | 3.0.57 08/30/2021 - Initial support for SLES 15 SP3 (min. kernel 5.3.18-57 Power, Intel, System Z)\r | |
| 31 | 07/26/2021 - Initial support for RHEL 8.4 (min. kernel 4.18.0-305 x86_64, ppc64le, s390x)\r | |
| 32 | - Changer to retry abort and becoming ready state\r | |
| 33 | - CPF improvements\r | |
| 34 | - Fix for memory leak\r | |
| 35 | - Not to retry rimeouts request on invalid request\r | |
| 36 | 3.0.56 02/12/2021 - Initial support for RHEL 8.3 (min. kernel 4.18.0-240 x86_64 and Power)\r | |
| 37 | 12/31/2020 - Initial support for RHEL 7.9 (min. kernel 3.10.0-1160 x86_64 and Power)\r | |
| 38 | - Enhancement to allow multiple changer open handles during critical IO\r | |
| 39 | - Removed recommended tmo parameters warnings\r | |
| 40 | - Fix for auto timeout retrieval on re-discovery failing command for timout retrieval when successful on initial discovery\r | |
| 41 | 3.0.55 07/31/2020 - Initial support for SLES 15 SP2 (min. kernel version 5.3.18-24.15.1)\r | |
| 42 | - Autotime retrieval\r | |
| 43 | - Fix on passthru failover on changer from invalid request\r | |
| 44 | - RAO for LTO\r | |
| 45 | 3.0.53 06/02/2020 - Initial support for RHEL 7.8 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-1127.8.2 on x86_64 and Power and 4.14.0-115.el7a on Power9)\r | |
| 46 | - Initial support for RHEL 8.2 (min. kernel version 4.18.0-193 x86_64 and Power)\r | |
| 47 | - Initial support for Ubuntu 18.04.4 (min kernel version 5.3.0-46 only on ppc64le and x86_64)\r | |
| 48 | - Removed line space at proc output\r | |
| 49 | 3.0.52 03/17/2020 - Initial support for RHEL 8.1 (min. kernel version 4.18.9.147)\r | |
| 50 | - Initial support for SLES 12 SP5 (min. kernel version 4.12.14-122)\r | |
| 51 | - Workaround for scsi request not detecting/reporting path down on RHEL 8.x\r | |
| 52 | 3.0.51 02/21/2020 - Fix for keeping track of reservation after failover\r | |
| 53 | - Fix for sg lock on RHEL7\r | |
| 54 | - Fix for possible lock on device unconfig\r | |
| 55 | - Fix for drive dumps file names\r | |
| 56 | - Adjustment for LTO erase time out \r | |
| 57 | - Enhancement for install script \r | |
| 58 | 3.0.48 11/01/2019 - Initial support for RHEL 7.7 (min. kernel version 4.14.0-115 on Power and 3.10.0-1062 on Intel)\r | |
| 59 | 3.0.48 09/18/2019 - Initial support for RHEL 8 (min. kernel version 4.18.0-80)\r | |
| 60 | - Initial support for SLES 15 SP1 (min. kernel version 4.12.14-197.1)\r | |
| 61 | - Fix for crash when all paths removed during load balancing\r | |
| 62 | - Fix for null pointer on join with devices with alternate path disabled\r | |
| 63 | 3.0.46 07/31/2019 - General change for lock handling and devices table\r | |
| 64 | - Fix on daemon null pointer\r | |
| 65 | - Retry on unit attention and not ready sense on attachment\r | |
| 66 | - Daemon signal blocking fix\r | |
| 67 | - Introduced systemd (on RHEL 7, SLES 12 and SLES 15)\r | |
| 68 | - Fix for daemon not processing commands when removal in progress\r | |
| 69 | - Support flag for SLES\r | |
| 70 | - Initial support for SLES 12 SP4 (min. kernel version 4.12.14-94.41 x86_64, ppc64le and s390x)\r | |
| 71 | 3.0.39 02/18/2019 - Initial support for RHEL 7.6 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-957.1.3 only)\r | |
| 72 | 3.0.39 02/18/2019 - Initial support for SLES 12 SP4 (min. kernel version 4.12.14-94.41 ppc64le and s390x only)\r | |
| 73 | 3.0.39 12/06/2018 - Initial support for TS1160\r | |
| 74 | - Initial support for RHEL 6.10 (min. kernel version 2.6.32-754 ppc64le and x86_64 only)\r | |
| 75 | - Initial support for Ubuntu 18.04 (min. kernel 4.15.0.34 only on ppc64le and x86_64)\r | |
| 76 | - Initial support for SLES 15 (min. kernel 4.12.14-23.1 only on ppc64le and s390x)\r | |
| 77 | - Fix for soft lock on rescan\r | |
| 78 | - Fix for udev attributes\r | |
| 79 | - New Archive Mode Unthread ioctls\r | |
| 80 | 3.0.33 07/27/2018 - Initial support for RHEL 7.5 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-862 only on ppc64le and x86_64)\r | |
| 81 | - Initial support for Ubuntu 16.04.3 (min. kernel 4.4.0-87 Only on x86_64)\r | |
| 82 | - Fixed bug on CPF failing over a different device\r | |
| 83 | - Reduced removal waiting when device busy\r | |
| 84 | - Added runtime attribute PID\r | |
| 85 | - Fix for double lock on rescan\r | |
| 86 | 3.0.32 06/07/2018 - Support for SLES 12 SP3 on kernels beyond 4.4.114\r | |
| 87 | - Fix for lock condition introduced at 3.0.30 when attempt to open a device busy\r | |
| 88 | - Fox for join driver to return sense data after CPF event\r | |
| 89 | 3.0.31 04/26/2018 - Initial support for SLES 12 SP3 (min. kernel version 4.4.114-94)\r | |
| 90 | 3.0.30 04/11/20185 - Fixes on join some with crash potential during failover\r | |
| 91 | - Fix for join driver returning ENXIO on open\r | |
| 92 | - Fix for memory leak on join interfaces\r | |
| 93 | - Fix for Verify and extended read position application interface for missmatching endianness\r | |
| 94 | - Fix for logging when daemon stopped\r | |
| 95 | - Fix for race condition\r | |
| 96 | - Fix and enhancements for device removal\r | |
| 97 | - Fix for hang introduced at 3.0.20 on device removal during IO\r | |
| 98 | - Enhancements for daemon excess loop during failvoer\r | |
| 99 | - Fix for interlock of daemon with crash potential\r | |
| 100 | - Stop waiting when device gone detected\r | |
| 101 | - Work around ERP TOD from drive sense data parameter rounded\r | |
| 102 | - Fix to not use the device object once driver released\r | |
| 103 | - Removed small unporected window on read proc\r | |
| 104 | 3.0.23 11/03/2017 - Initial support for RHEL 7.4 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-693 only on ppc64, ppc64le and x86_64)\r | |
| 105 | - Initial support for RHEL 6.9 (min. kernel version 2.6.32-696)\r | |
| 106 | - Support for LTO8\r | |
| 107 | - Fix for reservation conflict when reserve_6 used\r | |
| 108 | - Fix for failover after device rediscovery (introduced at 3.0.20)\r | |
| 109 | - Fix for device name after removal (introduced at 3.0.20)\r | |
| 110 | - Fix for read with resid through join interface\r | |
| 111 | 3.0.21 09/14/2017 - Fix to process sense data from srb combination flags\r | |
| 112 | - Enhancement to not attempt failover when only one path left\r | |
| 113 | - Fix for crash on concurrency (multiple process attempting to use the same device in stress scenario)\r | |
| 114 | - Fix for returning ENXIO instead attempting failover (introduced at 3.0.20)\r | |
| 115 | - Join driver to retry attachment on LUN not serlf configured\r | |
| 116 | 3.0.20 06/09/2017 - Reincorporated join driver (lin_tape_as_sfmp) with new build flag: -with sfmp\r | |
| 117 | - Work around for wrong SN reported by Inq. page 80h after failback\r | |
| 118 | - Fix for crash when HBA driver removed before lin_tape\r | |
| 119 | - Fix for mismatching device SN on failback\r | |
| 120 | - Fix for busy waits\r | |
| 121 | - Fix for file systems removals\r | |
| 122 | - Fix for file systems attributes names\r | |
| 123 | - Fix for column width at /proc/IBM for SN\r | |
| 124 | - Initial support for SLES 12 SP2 (min. kernel version 4.4.21-69)\r | |
| 125 | - Initial support for RHEL 7.3 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-514)\r | |
| 126 | - Initial support for RHEL 7.3 Power LE (min. kernel version 3.10.0-514)\r | |
| 127 | - Support for TS4300\r | |
| 128 | 3.0.18 03/08/2017 - Prevent crash from double delete objects on removal during wait scenarios (introduced at 2.2.0)\r | |
| 129 | - lin_tape_as_sfmp not supported in this version\r | |
| 130 | - Installation for blacklist.conf enhancements\r | |
| 131 | - Support for TS1155\r | |
| 132 | 3.0.16 01/06/2017 - Prevent crash introduced at 1.75.0 cleaning buffern and length on WRA during open\r | |
| 133 | - Prevent lock/crash introduced at 1.75.0 when device removal during open\r | |
| 134 | - Added dualaccesor_cpf for TSLM usage\r | |
| 135 | - Enhancement to installer to prevent blacklisting st and sg linux modules\r | |
| 136 | 3.0.13 11/11/2016 - Fix for passthru error recovery after EOD detected\r | |
| 137 | - Fixes for device removal during wait causing lock or crash\r | |
| 138 | - Fix to prevent lock over lock at scatter/gather when running with low memory\r | |
| 139 | - Updates on daemon configuration parameters naming to match lin_taped.conf with IUG instructions\r | |
| 140 | - Added daemon parameter TapeDevPermissions to lin_taped.conf\r | |
| 141 | 3.0.12 08/19/2016 - Fix for lin_tape_as_sfmp attachment on kenrnels 3.10.0 and beyond\r | |
| 142 | - Enhancement on lin_tape_as_sfmp installation\r | |
| 143 | 3.0.11 08/08/2016 - Added join driver back\r | |
| 144 | - Fixed multiple kernel dependencies for join\r | |
| 145 | - Enhancement on join install\r | |
| 146 | - Fix on join driver for scsi rescan\r | |
| 147 | 3.0.10 06/03/2016 - Removed join driver\r | |
| 148 | - New OEM library support\r | |
| 149 | - Initial support for RHEL 6.8 (min. kernel version 2.6.32-642)\r | |
| 150 | - Initial support for RHEL 7.2 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-327)\r | |
| 151 | 3.0.8 03/16/2016 - Prevent segfault at daemon\r | |
| 152 | - Fix for pfo device discovery at 390x arch.\r | |
| 153 | 3.0.7 02/23/2016 - Prevent crash from st/sg failover\r | |
| 154 | - Added reserve type to STIOCQRYP\r | |
| 155 | - Enabled SIOC_LOG_SENSE10 for changer\r | |
| 156 | - Added special open for preemption\r | |
| 157 | - Enabled TSM QUERY PR KEY for normal open\r | |
| 158 | - Fix for join build\r | |
| 159 | 3.0.6 02/26/2016 - Introduction of join driver (lin_tape_as_sfmp)\r | |
| 160 | 3.0.5 01/06/2016 - Fix to track LBP state\r | |
| 161 | - Prevent null pointer from scsi device\r | |
| 162 | - Fix for HBA call to restore LBP after failover\r | |
| 163 | 3.0.3 11/06/2015 - Removed warnings for big-endian introduced at 3.0.1\r | |
| 164 | - Fix for hardcoded serial number length in daemon\r | |
| 165 | - Build/Install enhacements\r | |
| 166 | 3.0.2 09/11/2015 - Retry Abort 4b/06\r | |
| 167 | - Fix for changer lock\r | |
| 168 | - Enhancement to disable autodump for all at once\r | |
| 169 | - Initial support for SLESS11 SP4 (min. kernel version 3.0.101-63)\r | |
| 170 | 3.0.1 08/25/2015 - Fix for RAO IOCTL's\r | |
| 171 | - Increased retry time for 2/3E/0\r | |
| 172 | - Support for LTO7\r | |
| 173 | 3.0.0 06/26/2015 - Fix for pages leak at s/g ops\r | |
| 174 | - Initial support for RHEL 7.1 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-229)\r | |
| 175 | - Initial support for RHEL 6.7 (min. kernel version 2.6.32-573)\r | |
| 176 | 2.9.9 06/16/2015 - Fix for lock during autodump loop\r | |
| 177 | - Enhancement for bs>1M at kernels>2.6.29\r | |
| 178 | - Fix for pages leak at s/g\r | |
| 179 | - Return ENOMEM instead of EIO from lin_tape_blk_req\r | |
| 180 | 2.9.8 05/08/2015 - Prevent cdev call with null pointer\r | |
| 181 | 2.9.7 04/28/2015 - 3592 WDRA timout increased to 5 min\r | |
| 182 | - Removed enhancement to handle lot of \r | |
| 183 | removals due to lock and crash,\r | |
| 184 | wait_on_config should be used instead\r | |
| 185 | 2.9.6 03/24/2015 - Removed printk at qry_blk_prot\r | |
| 186 | - Fix for SN/CPF alignment on SN>16\r | |
| 187 | - Fix for page order adjustment that caused \r | |
| 188 | data corruption at 2.9.5 (only blocksize >\r | |
| 189 | 1M and kernel >= 2.6.29)\r | |
| 190 | - Daemond enhancement to handle lot of \r | |
| 191 | removals\r | |
| 192 | - Write lock hang during autodump and s/g\r | |
| 193 | - Fix for 3592/E08 generation id\r | |
| 194 | - Initial support for RHEL 6.6 (min. kernel version 2.6.32-504.8.1)\r | |
| 195 | 2.9.5 01/15/2015 - Adjustment to page order for r/w\r | |
| 196 | 2.9.4 12/05/2014 - Support for 3592/E08\r | |
| 197 | - Fixes to multiple partition sizing\r | |
| 198 | - Fix to return rc on failed set active partition\r | |
| 199 | - Fix on failover enablement for SN > 16\r | |
| 200 | - Added enablement for select OEM libraries\r | |
| 201 | - Initial support for RHEL 7 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-123)\r | |
| 202 | 2.9.3 10/27/2014 - Enhancement for SN/CPF gather\r | |
| 203 | - Fix for dump ready when s/g\r | |
| 204 | 2.9.2 08/26/2014 - Fix for partitioning PSUM and POFM bits\r | |
| 205 | - Fix for TSM enh inventory media type\r | |
| 206 | - RHEL 7 (min. kernel version 3.10.0-123)\r | |
| 207 | 2.9.1 07/28/2014 - Fix for chgr cmd call during device removal\r | |
| 208 | - Fix for tracing during device removal\r | |
| 209 | - Fixes for PR IOCTL's\r | |
| 210 | 2.9.0 06/29/2014 - RAO SA update and LBP CRC32C added\r | |
| 211 | 2.8.0 05/28/2014 - Enhancements to busy_retry \r | |
| 212 | 2.7.0 05/15/2014 - fixes for s/g on authomatic dump\r | |
| 213 | - fix for STIOCSETP on LWP set\r | |
| 214 | - Initial support for RHEL 6.5 (min. kernel version 2.6.32-431)\r | |
| 215 | 2.6.0 02/17/2014 - Added Recommend Access Order (RAO)\r | |
| 216 | - noreserve changer default for failover\r | |
| 217 | 2.5.0 01/14/2014 - Added SIOC_ENH_LOG_SENSE \r | |
| 218 | - Initial support for SLES11 SP3 (min kernel version 3.0.79-0.11)\r | |
| 219 | 2.4.0 12/18/2013 - Added Scatter/Gather for operations use. \r | |
| 220 | 2.3.0 10/01/2013 - Initial support for RHEL 6.4 (kernel version 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6)\r | |
| 221 | - Changed some indirection to double \r | |
| 222 | indirection for CPF\r | |
| 223 | - Rerouted some changer commands to go \r | |
| 224 | through the changer queue\r | |
| 225 | - Added debug tracing for the changer queue\r | |
| 226 | 2.2.0 08/06/2013 - Added optional persistent_n_device \r | |
| 227 | parameter to enable the ability to \r | |
| 228 | persistent name non rewind open.\r | |
| 229 | 2.1.0 06/11/2013 - Added busy_retry for TSM\r | |
| 230 | - Added ability to take log sense size \r | |
| 231 | desired for ITDT\r | |
| 232 | - Added definition to IBM_tape.h MTWEOFI\r | |
| 233 | - Changed default for Jag cartridge to 6\r | |
| 234 | 2.0.0 05/22/2013 - Removed flushing buffer on setposition\r | |
| 235 | 1.76.0 10/22/2012 - Failover fix for bug introduced in 1.75.0\r | |
| 236 | - Initial support for RHEL 5.9 (min kernel version 2.6.18-348)\r | |
| 237 | 1.75.0 10/17/2012 - Implemented Dynamic Runtime Attributes\r | |
| 238 | - Fixed host reboot on microcode load of TS3310\r | |
| 239 | - Fixed crash on drive cable pull\r | |
| 240 | 1.74.0 08/21/2012 - Support for 64-bit position counters\r | |
| 241 | - Fix bug in /proc/scsi/IBMchanger with many changers\r | |
| 242 | - Fix to changer open count when close fails\r | |
| 243 | 1.73.0 05/29/2012 - Allow option for setting TSM 3592 barcode to length 8\r | |
| 244 | - Fix for SLES 11 SP2 hang on failback\r | |
| 245 | - Initial support for SLES11 SP2 (min kernel version 3.0.13-0.27)\r | |
| 246 | 1.72.0 05/22/2012 - Increase inquiry timeout to 180 for rediscovered device\r | |
| 247 | - Fix lin_taped crash on SAS rediscovered dvc, RH 5 & 6\r | |
| 248 | 1.71.0 05/07/2012 - Eliminate multiple "REMOVED" devices on failback\r | |
| 249 | - Implement MTWEOFI (write filemarks with immed=1)\r | |
| 250 | - Fix bug on reading prog. early warning parameter\r | |
| 251 | - Fix potential failover bugs on read and write\r | |
| 252 | 1.70.0 04/20/2012 - Fix crash on SLES 11 SP2 when offline device returns\r | |
| 253 | - Eliminate excessive trailing spaces in read proc\r | |
| 254 | - Increased inquiry timeout to three min. for failover\r | |
| 255 | 1.69.0 04/13/2012 - Fix infinite loop on read proc with small buffer size\r | |
| 256 | - Eliminate excessive print on unsuccessful key registration\r | |
| 257 | 1.68.0 03/13/2012 - Support for LTO 6 media types\r | |
| 258 | - Fix for crash in tape_read_proc and changer_read_proc\r | |
| 259 | - Data direction in failover set position from OUT to NONE\r | |
| 260 | 1.67.0 02/06/2012 - Implemented Programmable Early Warning\r | |
| 261 | - Implemented general Mode Sense function\r | |
| 262 | - Implemented Verify Data\r | |
| 263 | - Initial support for SLES 11 SP2\r | |
| 264 | - Added LTO 6 inquiry strings\r | |
| 265 | 1.66.0 12/08/2011 - Prevent BUSY return status in multiple open changer\r | |
| 266 | 1.65.0 11/15/2011 - Change final PREEMPT to PREEMPT_AND_ABORT for DPF\r | |
| 267 | 1.64.0 11/04/2011 - Serialize IO for two instances of open changer (crash fix)\r | |
| 268 | 1.63.0 11/02/2011 - Catch failover case at beginning of IO requests\r | |
| 269 | 1.62.0 10/14/2011 - Call malloc before lock acquisition in load_unload\r | |
| 270 | - Unit attention and DPF handling for PREVENT_MEDIUM_REMOVAL\r | |
| 271 | - STIOCP: supply missing sili bit case\r | |
| 272 | - reallocate changer data if missing at start of IOCTL\r | |
| 273 | - Change remaining ENOMEM to EOVERFLOW in overlength read\r | |
| 274 | - Allow removal of lin_taped if not running\r | |
| 275 | 1.61.0 09/26/2011 - Allow for short erase in STERASE\r | |
| 276 | - Fix for crash when HBA driver uninstalled w/ alt_pathing\r | |
| 277 | 1.60.0 09/12/2011 - Fix sense copy error by accounting for DID_TARGET_FAILURE\r | |
| 278 | - Fix CPF/DPF error introduced in 1.58.0 in ERP function\r | |
| 279 | 1.59.0 08/25/2011 - Fix for read loop error with SILI bit on \r | |
| 280 | 1.58.0 08/12/2011 - Implementation of log sense page with subpage support\r | |
| 281 | - Added eot warning IOCTLs\r | |
| 282 | - Made READ SILI bit a changeable parameter\r | |
| 283 | - Change overlength read rc from ENOMEM to EOVERFLOW\r | |
| 284 | - Reset logical block protection on failover\r | |
| 285 | 1.57.0 07/15/2011 - Fix for timeout error introduced in 1.56.0\r | |
| 286 | - Allow option for a SLES 11 and higher "supported" build\r | |
| 287 | 1.56.0 07/11/2011 - Fix handling of deferred EOM flag\r | |
| 288 | - Update changer timeouts to 900\r | |
| 289 | 1.55.0 06/17/2011 - Fix for structure size in logical block protection IOCTLs\r | |
| 290 | - Fix for invalid data returned with max modesense length\r | |
| 291 | - Introduce count to track number of open changer instances\r | |
| 292 | 1.54.0 05/05/2011 - Updated erase timeout for Jag4\r | |
| 293 | 1.53.0 04/13/2011 - Fix for crash when drive is power cycled while open\r | |
| 294 | 1.52.0 04/01/2011 - Clear flags on lin_tape_flush for future opens\r | |
| 295 | - Remove check of open/busy flags during changer open\r | |
| 296 | 1.51.0 02/18/2011 - Send TUR on CPF to clear RS-422 failure unit attention\r | |
| 297 | - Correlate device number with SCSI address in /proc/scsi\r | |
| 298 | - Fix seg fault with pseudo dvc when HBA driver uninstalled\r | |
| 299 | - Provide a method to disable setting density on open\r | |
| 300 | 1.50.0 01/25/2011 - Reduce size of kernel mem allocs to avoid alloc failure\r | |
| 301 | - Support for get/set block-level data protection (3592-E07)\r | |
| 302 | 1.49.0 12/15/2010 - Support for RHEL 6\r | |
| 303 | - Implementation of partitioning for 3592-E07\r | |
| 304 | - Fix for CPF error due to incorrect sense data returned\r | |
| 305 | 1.48.0 11/11/2010 - Return correct mt device number from MTDEVICE IOCTL\r | |
| 306 | 1.47.0 11/10/2010 - Fix for host hang in ERP\r | |
| 307 | 1.46.0 11/03/2010 - Fix for drives becoming unavailable after software reset\r | |
| 308 | 1.45.0 10/26/2010 - Fix CPF failure with cable pull before IO\r | |
| 309 | 1.44.0 10/18/2010 - Fix for crash when drive is reset during tape ops (zLinux)\r | |
| 310 | 1.43.0 10/01/2010 - Fix for crash when drive is reset during tape ops (pLinux)\r | |
| 311 | 1.42.0 07/20/2010 - Reduce size of stchgp_s struct to match user space struct\r | |
| 312 | 1.41.1 06/24/2010 - Fix for memory leak/crash in SLES 11 sp1\r | |
| 313 | 1.40.0 06/02/2010 - Increased page order on read-write in SLES 11 sp1\r | |
| 314 | - Fixed infinite read loop on read failure\r | |
| 315 | 1.39.0 05/06/2010 - Support for SLES 11 SP 1\r | |
| 316 | 1.38.0 04/13/2010 - LTO 5 extended postitioning IOCTLs\r | |
| 317 | - Release descriptor lock before IO on init to avoid hang\r | |
| 318 | 1.37.0 03/15/2010 - Set Dynamic Runtime Attributes\r | |
| 319 | - Removed persistent naming script in favor of new method \r | |
| 320 | - Fix for duplicate changers in /proc/scsi/IBMchanger\r | |
| 321 | 1.36.0 03/02/2010 - Failover changes to support WORM and Data Safe Mode\r | |
| 322 | - Fix for EFAULT (Bad address) error on read\r | |
| 323 | 1.35.0 02/19/2010 - Fix for corruption on std write followed by passthru read\r | |
| 324 | 1.34.0 02/15/2010 - Fix for I/O errors on zLinux, LTO 5\r | |
| 325 | 1.33.0 02/02/2010 - LTO 5 updates\r | |
| 326 | 1.32.0 12/30/2009 - Failover fixes\r | |
| 327 | 1.31.1 12/04/2009 - LTO 5 partitioning IOCTLs\r | |
| 328 | - Fixes for SLES 11 failover\r | |
| 329 | 1.30.0 11/20/2009 - lin_taped multiple pid fix\r | |
| 330 | 1.29.0 10/26/2009 - SLES 11 failover implementation\r | |
| 331 | 1.28.0 09/02/2009 - SLES 11 device removal/reinitialization fix\r | |
| 332 | 1.27.0 08/25/2009 - Fix for failover failure error on SLES 10 & RHEL 4\r | |
| 333 | 1.26.2 08/04/2009 - Fix for crashes on RHEL 4.7 and SLES 11\r | |
| 334 | 1.25.0 06/23/2009 - Fix for scatter-gather page offset bug on PPC64 SLES11\r | |
| 335 | - Added IOCTLs for persistent reserve\r | |
| 336 | 1.24.0 02/23/2009 - Support for SLES 11, kernel 2.6.27\r | |
| 337 | - Fix for CPF configuration bug introduced in 1.23.0\r | |
| 338 | 1.23.0 01/19/2009 - CPF crash fix: cable pull/uninstall/reinstall sequence\r | |
| 339 | - Boundary check for max failover paths\r | |
| 340 | 1.22.0 11/25/2008 - Fix for crash in RHEL 4.7\r | |
| 341 | - Updates for kernels >= 2.6.24\r | |
| 342 | - DPF crash fix: cable pull/uninstall/reinstall sequence\r | |
| 343 | 1.21.0 10/23/2008 - Reserve logging \r | |
| 344 | - Add "primary_path" parameter for udev\r | |
| 345 | 1.20.0 10/15/2008 - read_cartridge_location to block transfers into at most\r | |
| 346 | 600 elements\r | |
| 347 | 1.19.0 09/15/2008 - IBMtapeutil fix for read_cartridge_location\r | |
| 348 | 1.18.0 08/22/2008 - Fix for struct device attribute in kernels >= 2.6.13\r | |
| 349 | 1.17.0 08/06/2008 - Add udev "dev" file for medium changers in\r | |
| 350 | kernels < 2.6.5 or > 2.6.15\r | |
| 351 | 1.16.0 06/27/2008 - Change GFP_ATOMIC allocations to GFP_KERNEL\r | |
| 352 | - Support for the 3592-E06\r | |
| 353 | - Fix lin_taped restart crash after failback\r | |
| 354 | 1.15.0 05/21/2008 - Release source RPM\r | |
| 355 | - Update 3572 inquiry string to 3572-TL\r | |
| 356 | 1.14.0 04/30/2008 - Make module parameters read/writable\r | |
| 357 | - Fix for CPF key check on CVT\r | |
| 358 | 1.13.0 03/27/2008 - Support for 3572\r | |
| 359 | 1.12.1 03/07/2008 - Fixed hang introduced in 1.12.0\r | |
| 360 | 1.12.0 02/26/2008 - Created "dev" file in sysfs class directory for\r | |
| 361 | udev & udevinfo support\r | |
| 362 | - Changed 3592 (E05) references to support models beyond E05\r | |
| 363 | 1.11.0 12/11/2007 - Fixed seg fault when a logical dvc is accidentally removed\r | |
| 364 | - Fixed return code for SIOC_PASS_THROUGH \r | |
| 365 | - Implemented read cartridge location IOCTL \r | |
| 366 | - Removed WWNN filter check for DPF entitlement \r | |
| 367 | 1.10.0 10/01/2007 - Increaded timeout for best path selection\r | |
| 368 | - Fixed delete_parms_on_device() for failover\r | |
| 369 | - Fixed return code for SIOC_PASS_THROUGH \r | |
| 370 | - Fixed maximum scsi transfer size for\r | |
| 371 | - running on RHEL5/SLES10 SP1 on IA64 \r | |
| 372 | - Increased max log sense length\r | |
| 373 | 1.9.0 08/20/2007 - Added persistent naming support for RHEL5 and SLES10\r | |
| 374 | - Increased maximum supported tape drives from 256 to 1024\r | |
| 375 | 1.8.0 07/26/2007 - Support LTO4 HH\r | |
| 376 | 1.7.1 08/06/2007 - Fixed max scsi transfer size for RHEL5 on System Z\r | |
| 377 | 1.7.0 07/03/2007 - Fix max scsi transfer size and sg for RHEL5 and SLES10 SP1\r | |
| 378 | - Added MODULE_VERSION and MODULE_PARM_DESC for driver parms\r | |
| 379 | - Added warning message to syslog if release fails on close\r | |
| 380 | - Added wait_on_config driver parameter\r | |
| 381 | - Removed unnecessary messages from lin_tape.errorlog\r | |
| 382 | - Fixed 3592 density recovery on failover\r | |
| 383 | 1.6.0 05/22/2007 - Remove registered key if persistent reservation\r | |
| 384 | preemption fails during failover\r | |
| 385 | - Fixed read memory allocation on fixed block size\r | |
| 386 | 1.5.0 04/30/2007 - Fixed the residual count for RHEL5\r | |
| 387 | - Support SLES10 SP1\r | |
| 388 | 1.4.0 04/30/2007 - Removed unwanted debug messages for direct I/O\r | |
| 389 | 1.3.0 04/12/2007 - Fix system-managed encryption for LTO4\r | |
| 390 | - Support for SIOC_PASS_THROUGH ioctl\r | |
| 391 | - Support direct I/O\r | |
| 392 | - Add driver attributes default_sys_encryption_proxy/write\r | |
| 393 | 1.2.0 04/02/2007 - Support RHEL5\r | |
| 394 | - Fix for ENOMEM on medium changer inventory with large\r | |
| 395 | number of slots\r | |
| 396 | 1.1.0 03/13/2007 - Application-managed encryption now enabled correctly\r | |
| 397 | - Fix for crash during CPF (when command never succeeds)\r | |
| 398 | - Fix for DPF license key validation for TS3200 library\r | |
| 399 | - Fix for daemon crash during data-path failover validation\r | |
| 400 | 1.0.9 02/19/2007 - Fix for hang when loading lin_tape \r | |
| 401 | - Fix for hang when removing module on SLES9\r | |
| 402 | 1.0.8 02/09/2007 - Fixes for system-managed encryption\r | |
| 403 | - Support for LTO4 encryption\r | |
| 404 | - Fix for data-path-failover on TS3200\r | |
| 405 | - Fix for hang when running stress tests to multiple devices\r | |
| 406 | - Support for Asianux 2.0\r | |
| 407 | 1.0.7 01/18/2007 - Fix for hang on RHEL4 and SLES9 when loading the driver\r | |
| 408 | 1.0.6 01/05/2007 - Support for 3577, LTO4, and system-managed encryption\r | |
| 409 | - Support for RHEL4 and SLES9\r | |
| 410 | - Fix for crash on read or write to changer\r | |
| 411 | 1.0.5 09/29/2006 - Initial release\r |