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Name

scsi_ifgetcap, scsi_ifsetcap - get/set SCSI transport capability

Synopsis

#include <sys/scsi/scsi.h>

int scsi_ifgetcap(struct scsi_address *ap, char *cap, int whom);

int scsi_ifsetcap(struct scsi_address *ap, char *cap, int value, int whom);

Interface Level

Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI).

Arguments

ap
Pointer to the scsi_address structure.
cap
Pointer to the string capability identifier.
value
Defines the new state of the capability.
whom
Determines if all targets or only the specified target is affected.

Description

The target drivers use scsi_ifsetcap() to set the capabilities of the host adapter driver. A cap is a name-value pair whose name is a null terminated character string and whose value is an integer. The current value of a capability can be retrieved using scsi_ifgetcap(). If whom is 0 all targets are affected, else the target specified by the scsi_address structure pointed to by ap is affected.

A device may support only a subset of the capabilities listed below. It is the responsibility of the driver to make sure that these functions are called with a cap supported by the device.

The following capabilities have been defined:

dma-max
Maximum dma transfer size supported by host adapter.
msg-out
Message out capability supported by host adapter: 0 disables, 1 enables.
disconnect
Disconnect capability supported by host adapter: 0 disables, 1 enables.
synchronous
Synchronous data transfer capability supported by host adapter: 0 disables, 1 enables.
wide-xfer
Wide transfer capability supported by host adapter: 0 disables, 1 enables.
parity
Parity checking by host adapter: 0 disables, 1 enables.
initiator-id
The host’s bus address is returned.
untagged-qing
The host adapter’s capability to support internal queueing of commands without tagged queueing: 0 disables, 1 enables.
tagged-qing
The host adapter’s capability to support tagged queuing: 0 disables, 1 enables.
auto-rqsense
The host adapter’s capability to support auto request sense on check conditions: 0 disables, 1 enables.
sector-size
The target driver sets this capability to inform the HBA of the granularity, in bytes, of DMA breakup; the HBA ’s DMA limit structure will be set to reflect this limit (see ddi_dma_lim_sparc(9S) or ddi_dma_lim_x86(9S) ). It should be set to the physical disk sector size. This capability defaults to 512.
total-sectors
The target driver sets this capability to inform the HBA of the total number of sectors on the device, as returned from the SCSI get capacity command. This capability must be set before the target driver ‘‘gets’’ the geometry capability.
geometry
This capability returns the HBA geometry of a target disk. The target driver must set the total-sectors capability before ‘‘getting’’ the geometry capability. The geometry is returned as a 32-bit value: the upper 16 bits represent the number of heads per cylinder; the lower 16 bits represent the number of sectors per track. The geometry capability cannot be ‘‘set.’’
reset-notification
The host adapter’s capability to support bus reset notification: 0 disables, 1 enables. Refer to scsi_reset_notify(9F) .
linked -cmds
The host adapter’s capability to support linked commands: 0 disables, 1 enables.
qfull-retries
This capability enables/disables QUEUE handling. If 0, the HBA will not retry a command when a QUEUE status is returned. If greater than 0, then the HBA driver will retry the command at specified number of times at an interval determined by the "qfull-retry-interval". The range for qfull-retries is 0-255.
qfull-retry-interval
This capability sets the retry interval (in ms) for commands that were completed with a QUEUE status. The range for qfull-retry-intervals is 0-1000 ms.

Return Values

scsi_ifsetcap() returns:

  1. if the capability was successfully set to the new value,
  2. if the capability is not variable, and
    -1
    if the capability was not defined, or setting the capability to a new value failed.

    scsi_ifgetcap() returns:

    the current value of a capability
    -1
    if the capability was not defined.

    Context

    These functions can be called from user or interrupt context.

    Examples


    un->un_arq_enabled =
        ((scsi_ifsetcap(&devp->sd_address, "auto-rqsense", 1, 1) == 1)? 1: 0);
    
    if (scsi_ifsetcap(&devp->sd_address, "tagged-qing", 1, 1) == 1) {
        un->un_dp->options |= SD_QUEUEING;
        un->un_throttle = MAX_THROTTLE;
    } else if (scsi_ifgetcap(&devp->sd_address, "untagged-qing", 0) == 1) {
        un->un_dp->options |= SD_QUEUEING;
        un->un_throttle = 3;
    } else {
        un->un_dp->options &= ~SD_QUEUEING;
        un->un_throttle = 1;
    }
    

    See Also

    scsi_reset_notify(9F) , ddi_dma_lim_sparc(9S) , ddi_dma_lim_x86(9S) , scsi_address(9S) , scsi_arq_status(9S)


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