old-www/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/cosg.html

301 lines
5.6 KiB
HTML

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML
><HEAD
><TITLE
>sg driver</TITLE
><META
NAME="GENERATOR"
CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
REL="HOME"
TITLE="The Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO"
HREF="index.html"><LINK
REL="UP"
TITLE="Compile options and System calls including ioctls"
HREF="compileopt.html"><LINK
REL="PREVIOUS"
TITLE="st driver"
HREF="cost.html"><LINK
REL="NEXT"
TITLE="References, Credits and Corrections"
HREF="refs.html"></HEAD
><BODY
CLASS="sect1"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
TEXT="#000000"
LINK="#0000FF"
VLINK="#840084"
ALINK="#0000FF"
><DIV
CLASS="NAVHEADER"
><TABLE
SUMMARY="Header navigation table"
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TH
COLSPAN="3"
ALIGN="center"
>The Linux 2.4 SCSI subsystem HOWTO</TH
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="cost.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="80%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="bottom"
>Appendix E. Compile options and System calls including ioctls</TD
><TD
WIDTH="10%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="bottom"
><A
HREF="refs.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect1"
><H1
CLASS="sect1"
><A
NAME="cosg"
></A
>E.5. sg driver</H1
><P
>&#13;The following header files in the kernel source are relevant to the sg driver:
<TABLE
BORDER="0"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
WIDTH="100%"
><TR
><TD
><FONT
COLOR="#000000"
><PRE
CLASS="programlisting"
>&#13; /usr/src/linux/include/scsi/sg.h
</PRE
></FONT
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
</P
><P
>&#13;As pointed out in <A
HREF="coml.html"
>Section E.1</A
> this is best included in
applications by using:
<TABLE
BORDER="0"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
WIDTH="100%"
><TR
><TD
><FONT
COLOR="#000000"
><PRE
CLASS="programlisting"
>&#13; #include &#60;linux/../scsi/sg.h&#62;
</PRE
></FONT
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
</P
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="cosgco"
></A
>E.5.1. sg compile options</H2
><P
>&#13;Here are some defines from the sg.h file that the user could conceivably want
to change. The current default values are shown in braces on the right:
<TABLE
BORDER="0"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
WIDTH="100%"
><TR
><TD
><FONT
COLOR="#000000"
><PRE
CLASS="programlisting"
>&#13;
SG_SCATTER_SZ {32768}
SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE {SG_SCATTER_SZ}
SG_DEF_FORCE_LOW_DMA {0}
SG_DEF_FORCE_PACK_ID {0}
SG_DEF_KEP_ORPHAN {0}
SG_MAX_QUEUE {16}
SG_DEFAULT_RETRIES {1} # i.e. don't retry
SG_BIG_BUFF {SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE}
SG_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT {60 seconds}
SG_DEF_COMMAND_Q {0 *}
SG_DEF_UNDERRUN_FLAG {0}
* The per file descriptor copy of this flips to 1 (thus
allowing command queuing) as soon as a write() based
on the newer sg_io_hdr structure is detected.
</PRE
></FONT
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="sect2"
><H2
CLASS="sect2"
><A
NAME="cosgio"
></A
>E.5.2. sg ioctls and user interface</H2
><P
>&#13;The following ioctl()s are listed in alphabetical order with a brief
explanation to the right. [See sg documentation for more details.]
<TABLE
BORDER="0"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
WIDTH="100%"
><TR
><TD
><FONT
COLOR="#000000"
><PRE
CLASS="programlisting"
>&#13;
SG_EMULATED_HOST [indicate if adapter is ide-scsi]
SG_GET_COMMAND_Q [command queuing flag state]
SG_GET_KEEP_ORPHAN [interrupted SG_IO keep orphan flag state]
SG_GET_LOW_DMA ["low dma flag" (&#60;= 16 MB on i386) state]
SG_GET_NUM_WAITING [number of responses waiting to be read()]
SG_GET_PACK_ID [pack_id of next to read() response
(-1 if none)]
SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE [yields array of requests being processed]
SG_GET_RESERVED_SIZE [current size of reserved buffer]
SG_GET_SCSI_ID [a little more info than the mid level's
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN ioctl]
SG_GET_SG_TABLESIZE [max entries in host's scatter gather table]
SG_GET_TIMEOUT [yields timeout (unit: jiffies
(10ms on i386))]
SG_GET_TRANSFORM [state of ide-scsi's transform flag]
SG_IO [send given SCSI command and wait for
response]
SG_NEXT_CMD_LEN [change command length of next command]
SG_SCSI_RESET [send a SCSI bus, device or host reset]
SG_SET_COMMAND_Q [set command queuing state {old=0, new=1}]
SG_SET_DEBUG [set debug level {0}]
SG_SET_KEEP_ORPHAN [set SG_IO's keep orphan flag {0}]
SG_SET_FORCE_LOW_DMA [force DMA buffer low (&#60;= 16 MB on i386)
{0}]
SG_SET_FORCE_PACK_ID [so read() can fetch by pack_id {0}]
SG_SET_RESERVED_SIZE [change default buffer size
{SG_DEF_RESERVED_SIZE}]
SG_SET_TIMEOUT [change current timeout {60 secs} ]
SG_SET_TRANSFORM [set ide-scsi's ATAPI transform flag {0}]
open() [recognized oflags: O_RDONLY, O_RDWR, O_EXCL,
O_NONBLOCK]
close()
read()
write()
ioctl()
poll() [used when in O_NONBLOCK mode]
fasync() [enables generation of SIGIO signal for read()]
</PRE
></FONT
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
>
</P
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
><HR
ALIGN="LEFT"
WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
SUMMARY="Footer navigation table"
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
CELLPADDING="0"
CELLSPACING="0"
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="cost.html"
ACCESSKEY="P"
>Prev</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="index.html"
ACCESSKEY="H"
>Home</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="refs.html"
ACCESSKEY="N"
>Next</A
></TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="left"
VALIGN="top"
>st driver</TD
><TD
WIDTH="34%"
ALIGN="center"
VALIGN="top"
><A
HREF="compileopt.html"
ACCESSKEY="U"
>Up</A
></TD
><TD
WIDTH="33%"
ALIGN="right"
VALIGN="top"
>References, Credits and Corrections</TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></BODY
></HTML
>