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29.Dd June 16, 1998
30.Dt BUS_READ_IVAR 9
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm BUS_READ_IVAR ,
34.Nm BUS_WRITE_IVAR
35.Nd manipulate bus-specific device instance variables
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In sys/param.h
38.In sys/bus.h
39.Ft int
40.Fn BUS_READ_IVAR "device_t dev" "device_t child" "int index" "uintptr_t *result"
41.Ft int
42.Fn BUS_WRITE_IVAR "device_t dev" "device_t child" "int index" "uintptr_t value"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44These two methods manage a bus specific set of instance variables of
45a child device.
46The intention is that each different type of bus
47defines a set of appropriate instance variables (such as ports and
48irqs for ISA bus etc.)
49.Pp
50This information could be given to the child device as a struct but
51that makes it hard for a bus to add or remove variables without
52forcing an edit and recompile for all drivers which may not be
53possible for vendor supplied binary drivers.
54.Sh RETURN VALUES
55Zero is returned on success, otherwise an appropriate error is returned.
56.Sh SEE ALSO
57.Xr device 9 ,
58.Xr driver 9
59.Sh AUTHORS
60This manual page was written by
61.An Doug Rabson .
62