SYNOPSIS

struct parport * parport_register_port(unsigned long base, int irq, int dma, struct parport_operations * ops);

ARGUMENTS

base

base I/O address

irq

IRQ line

dma

DMA channel

ops

pointer to the port driver's port operations structure

DESCRIPTION

When a parallel port (lowlevel) driver finds a port that should be made available to parallel port device drivers, it should call parport_register_port. The base, irq, and dma parameters are for the convenience of port drivers, and for ports where they aren't meaningful needn't be set to anything special. They can be altered afterwards by adjusting the relevant members of the parport structure that is returned and represents the port. They should not be tampered with after calling parport_announce_port, however.

If there are parallel port device drivers in the system that have registered themselves using parport_register_driver, they are not told about the port at this time; that is done by parport_announce_port.

The ops structure is allocated by the caller, and must not be deallocated before calling parport_remove_port.

If there is no memory to allocate a new parport structure, this function will return NULL.

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