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NAME, SYNOPSIS, ARGUMENTS, DESCRIPTION, INPUTS, RETURNS, COPYRIGHT

"KICKSTART" "9" "July 2007" "Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.22" "Message-based devices"

NAME

KickStart - Perform hard reset of MPT adapter.

SYNOPSIS

"int KickStart(MPT_ADAPTER * " "ioc" ", int " "force" ", int " "sleepFlag" ");"


ARGUMENTS

ioc

Pointer to MPT_ADAPTER structure

force

Force hard reset sleepFlag Specifies whether the process can sleep

DESCRIPTION

This routine places MPT adapter in diagnostic mode via the WriteSequence register, and then performs a hard reset of adapter via the Diagnostic register.

INPUTS

sleepflag - CAN_SLEEP (non-interrupt thread) or NO_SLEEP (interrupt thread, use mdelay) force - 1 if doorbell active, board fault state board operational, IOC_RECOVERY or IOC_BRINGUP and there is an alt_ioc. 0 else

RETURNS

1 - hard reset, READY 0 - no reset due to History bit, READY -1 - no reset due to History bit but not READY OR reset but failed to come READY -2 - no reset, could not enter DIAG mode -3 - reset but bad FW bit

COPYRIGHT

Possibly related

raw nroff source of KickStart(9)