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Diffstat (limited to 'MdePkg/Include/Protocol/ServiceBinding.h')
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/MdePkg/Include/Protocol/ServiceBinding.h b/MdePkg/Include/Protocol/ServiceBinding.h index 546a0d0973d2..37f44c554ced 100644 --- a/MdePkg/Include/Protocol/ServiceBinding.h +++ b/MdePkg/Include/Protocol/ServiceBinding.h @@ -1,18 +1,12 @@ -/** @file +/** @file UEFI Service Binding Protocol is defined in UEFI specification. The file defines the generic Service Binding Protocol functions. - It provides services that are required to create and destroy child + It provides services that are required to create and destroy child handles that support a given set of protocols. - Copyright (c) 2006 - 2016, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR> - This program and the accompanying materials - are licensed and made available under the terms and conditions of the BSD License - which accompanies this distribution. The full text of the license may be found at - http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php - - THE PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED UNDER THE BSD LICENSE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, - WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. + Copyright (c) 2006 - 2018, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR> + SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause-Patent **/ @@ -26,14 +20,14 @@ typedef struct _EFI_SERVICE_BINDING_PROTOCOL EFI_SERVICE_BINDING_PROTOCOL; /** Creates a child handle and installs a protocol. - - The CreateChild() function installs a protocol on ChildHandle. - If ChildHandle is a pointer to NULL, then a new handle is created and returned in ChildHandle. + + The CreateChild() function installs a protocol on ChildHandle. + If ChildHandle is a pointer to NULL, then a new handle is created and returned in ChildHandle. If ChildHandle is not a pointer to NULL, then the protocol installs on the existing ChildHandle. @param This Pointer to the EFI_SERVICE_BINDING_PROTOCOL instance. @param ChildHandle Pointer to the handle of the child to create. If it is NULL, - then a new handle is created. If it is a pointer to an existing UEFI handle, + then a new handle is created. If it is a pointer to an existing UEFI handle, then the protocol is added to the existing UEFI handle. @retval EFI_SUCCES The protocol was added to ChildHandle. @@ -52,9 +46,9 @@ EFI_STATUS /** Destroys a child handle with a protocol installed on it. - - The DestroyChild() function does the opposite of CreateChild(). It removes a protocol - that was installed by CreateChild() from ChildHandle. If the removed protocol is the + + The DestroyChild() function does the opposite of CreateChild(). It removes a protocol + that was installed by CreateChild() from ChildHandle. If the removed protocol is the last protocol on ChildHandle, then ChildHandle is destroyed. @param This Pointer to the EFI_SERVICE_BINDING_PROTOCOL instance. @@ -76,14 +70,14 @@ EFI_STATUS ); /// -/// The EFI_SERVICE_BINDING_PROTOCOL provides member functions to create and destroy -/// child handles. A driver is responsible for adding protocols to the child handle -/// in CreateChild() and removing protocols in DestroyChild(). It is also required -/// that the CreateChild() function opens the parent protocol BY_CHILD_CONTROLLER +/// The EFI_SERVICE_BINDING_PROTOCOL provides member functions to create and destroy +/// child handles. A driver is responsible for adding protocols to the child handle +/// in CreateChild() and removing protocols in DestroyChild(). It is also required +/// that the CreateChild() function opens the parent protocol BY_CHILD_CONTROLLER /// to establish the parent-child relationship, and closes the protocol in DestroyChild(). -/// The pseudo code for CreateChild() and DestroyChild() is provided to specify the -/// required behavior, not to specify the required implementation. Each consumer of -/// a software protocol is responsible for calling CreateChild() when it requires the +/// The pseudo code for CreateChild() and DestroyChild() is provided to specify the +/// required behavior, not to specify the required implementation. Each consumer of +/// a software protocol is responsible for calling CreateChild() when it requires the /// protocol and calling DestroyChild() when it is finished with that protocol. /// struct _EFI_SERVICE_BINDING_PROTOCOL { |