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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2022-09-09 23:22:09 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2022-09-09 23:25:59 +0000
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stand: Add driver interface docs
Add some rather bare-bones driver interface docs. Sponsored by: Netflix Suggestions by: rpokala Reviewed by: pauamma Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35912
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diff --git a/stand/libsa/libsa.3 b/stand/libsa/libsa.3
index f1bfcd7b5be7..7bd7a848cd3d 100644
--- a/stand/libsa/libsa.3
+++ b/stand/libsa/libsa.3
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 22, 2018
+.Dd September 9, 2022
.Dt LIBSA 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -502,6 +502,12 @@ Returns -1 on error, 0 at EOF, or 1 if the user elects to quit while reading.
.Sh MISC
.Bl -hang -width 10n
.It Xo
+.Ft char *
+.Fn devformat "struct devdesc *"
+.Xc
+.Pp
+Format the specified device as a string.
+.It Xo
.Ft void
.Fn twiddle void
.Xc
@@ -615,7 +621,7 @@ The device driver itself will already have been called for the close; this call
should clean up any allocation made by devopen only.
.It Xo
.Ft void
-.Fn abort
+.Fn __abort
.Xc
.Pp
Calls
@@ -687,6 +693,65 @@ pointers should be terminated with a NULL.
Devices are exported by the supporting code via the array
.Vt struct devsw *devsw[]
which is a NULL terminated array of pointers to device switch structures.
+.Sh DRIVER INTERFACE
+The driver needs to provide a common set of entry points that are
+used by
+.Nm libsa
+to interface with the device.
+.Bd -literal
+struct devsw {
+ const char dv_name[DEV_NAMLEN];
+ int dv_type;
+ int (*dv_init)(void);
+ int (*dv_strategy)(void *devdata, int rw, daddr_t blk,
+ size_t size, char *buf, size_t *rsize);
+ int (*dv_open)(struct open_file *f, ...);
+ int (*dv_close)(struct open_file *f);
+ int (*dv_ioctl)(struct open_file *f, u_long cmd, void *data);
+ int (*dv_print)(int verbose);
+ void (*dv_cleanup)(void);
+ void (*dv_fmtdev)(struct devdesc *);
+};
+.Ed
+.Bl -tag -width ".Fn dv_strategy"
+.It Fn dv_name
+The device's name.
+.It Fn dv_type
+Type of device.
+The supported types are:
+.Bl -tag -width "DEVT_NONE"
+.It DEVT_NONE
+.It DEVT_DISK
+.It DEVT_NET
+.It DEVT_CD
+.It DEVT_ZFS
+.It DEVT_FD
+.El
+Each type may have its own associated (struct type_devdesc),
+which has the generic (struct devdesc) as its first member.
+.It Fn dv_init
+Driver initialization routine.
+This routine should probe for available units.
+Drivers are responsible for maintaining lists of units for later enumeration.
+No other driver routines may be called before
+.Fn dv_init
+returns.
+.It Fn dv_open
+The driver open routine.
+.It Fn dv_close
+The driver close routine.
+.It Fn dv_ioctl
+The driver ioctl routine.
+.It Fn dv_print
+Prints information about the available devices.
+Information should be presented with
+.Fn pager_output .
+.It Fn dv_cleanup
+Cleans up any memory used by the device before the next stage is run.
+.It Fn dv_fmtdev
+Converts the specified devdesc to the canonical string representation
+for that device.
+.El
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm