				Release Notes

Driver Name  : QLogic QLA22xx/QLA23xx PCI Fibre Channel Linux Driver
Version      : 7.00.03
OS platform  : Red Hat AS2.1 (IA32 & IA64)
               Red Hat RHEL 3 AS (IA32, PPC64, IA64 & AMD64)
               SuSE SLES8 (IA32, PPC64 & IA64)
HBA Support  : QLA22xx, QLA23xx
FW version   : QLA22xx : 2.02.06(tp/ip),  QLA23xx: 3.02.28(ipx/flx)

 
Table of Contents
I.	Overview
II.	Enhancements
III.	Bug Fixes
IV.	Known Issues
V.      Additional Information


I.	Overview

This document describes the changes between versions 6.06.10 and 7.00.00b15
of the QLogic Fibre Channel driver for Linux.


II.	Enhancements

 - Eliminate checking initiators while processing fcport list. 
 - Added logic to honor "ConfigRequired=1" in mon-failover mode. 
 - Added support for ISP2322 chips.
 - Added EVA support
 - Added support for enhance


III.	Bug Fixes

 - PortID binding was broken.
 - 2100/2200 panic during firmware load
 - Fixed handling of tape commands during LIPs
 - Fixed flushing logic for START_STOP commands
 - Back-out PLUG-TIMER and scsi-affine 'performace patches'
 - Fixed DMA double allocation bug on retries.

IV.	Known Issues

There are no known issues at this time.


V.	Additional Information

- This driver must be used with API library v2.00Beta4 + 
  to handle re-entrant API/ioctl commands correctly.
