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ddi_poke

Section: Kernel Functions for Drivers (9F)
Updated: 16 Jan 2006
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NAME

ddi_poke, ddi_poke8, ddi_poke16, ddi_poke32, ddi_poke64, ddi_pokec, ddi_pokes, ddi_pokel, ddi_poked - write a value to a location  

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/ddi.h>
#include <sys/sunddi.h>

int ddi_poke8(dev_info_t *dip, int8_t *addr, int8_t value);

int ddi_poke16(dev_info_t *dip, int16_t *addr, int16_t value);

int ddi_poke32(dev_info_t *dip, int32_t *addr, int32_t value);

int ddi_poke64(dev_info_t *dip, int64_t *addr, int64_t value);  

INTERFACE LEVEL

Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI). The ddi_pokec(), ddi_pokes(), ddi_pokel(), and ddi_poked() functions are obsolete. Use, respectively, ddi_poke8(), ddi_poke16(), ddi_poke32(), and ddi_poke64(), instead.  

PARAMETERS

dip A pointer to the device's dev_info structure.

addr Virtual address of the location to be written to.

value Value to be written to the location.

 

DESCRIPTION

These routines cautiously attempt to write a value to a specified virtual address, using the parent nexus driver to assist in the process where necessary.

If the address is not valid, or the value cannot be written without an error occurring, an error code is returned.

These routines are most useful when first trying to establish the presence of a given device on the system in a driver's probe(9E) or attach(9E) routines.

On multiprocessing machines these routines can be extremely heavy-weight, so use the ddi_peek(9F) routines instead if possible.  

RETURN VALUES

DDI_SUCCESS The value was successfully written to the given virtual address.

DDI_FAILURE An error occurred while trying to write to the location.

 

CONTEXT

These functions can be called from user, interrupt, or kernel context.  

SEE ALSO

attach(9E), probe(9E), ddi_peek(9F)

Writing Device Drivers  

NOTES

The functions described in this manual page previously used symbolic names which specified their data access size; the function names have been changed so they now specify a fixed-width data size. See the following table for the new name equivalents:

Previous NameNew Name
ddi_pokecddi_poke8
ddi_pokesddi_poke16
ddi_pokelddi_poke32
ddi_pokedddi_poke64


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
INTERFACE LEVEL
PARAMETERS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUES
CONTEXT
SEE ALSO
NOTES

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