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Writing a SCSI peripheral driver

xxinit and xxinit2

SCSI peripheral drivers support two initialization entry point routines: init(D2osdi) (may be called before the SCSI host adapter driver's init( ) routine has run) and init2( ) (called only after all SCSI host adapter driver init( ) routines have been called. Most SCSI peripheral driver initialization tasks are handled by the host adapter driver; the peripheral driver's init( ) and init2( ) routines should be used only for buffer management, initialization, data structure initialization, and device registration.

In the Sflp sample driver code, Sflpinit( ) calls Sdevregister(D3osdi) to mark the driver as ready for registration. Sflpinit2( ) sets up and initializes the data structures required by the driver, although this could have been done in the Sflpinit( ) routine.


WARNING: Never attempt to talk to any SCSI peripheral device in the init( ) routine. The driver for the SCSI host adapter to which the SCSI peripheral device is attached may not have run its init( ) routine. To initialize the SCSI peripheral device/driver, call the Sdevregister(D3osdi) function in the peripheral driver's init( ) routine. The SDEVREG_EX structure that is used as an argument to the Sdevregister( ) routine includes a function pointer for the SCSI peripheral driver's init2( ) function. This routine can be coded to do any driver initialization required for the SCSI peripheral driver. Any peripheral hardware initialization must be done the first time the peripheral driver's open( ) routine is called because interrupts are required and they are not enabled when the peripheral driver's init2( ) routine executes.


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