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14.Dd May 31, 2016
15.Dt MC_IOCTL 9E
16.Os
17.Sh NAME
18.Nm mc_ioctl
19.Nd device specific I/O control operation
20.Sh SYNOPSIS
21.In sys/types.h
22.In sys/stream.h
23.In sys/stropts.h
24.In sys/ddi.h
25.In sys/sunddi.h
26.Ft void
27.Fo prefix_m_ioctl
28.Fa "void *driver"
29.Fa "queue_t *wq"
30.Fa "mblk_t *mp"
31.Fc
32.Sh INTERFACE LEVEL
33illumos DDI Specific
34.Sh PARAMETERS
35.Bl -tag -width Ds
36.It Fa driver
37A pointer to the driver's private data that was passed in via the
38.Sy m_pdata
39member of the
40.Xr mac_register 9S
41structure to the
42.Xr mac_register 9F
43function.
44.It Fa wq
45A pointer to a STREAMS write-side queue that the ioctl request was
46received upon.
47.It Fa mp
48A pointer to a message block structure that contains the I/O control
49request.
50.El
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Fn mc_ioctl
54entry point is an optional GLDv3 entry point.
55It provides a means for device-specific I/O control operations to be initiated.
56In general, this entry point is not recommended for most devices and is
57unimplemented.
58.Pp
59The I/O control interface is not like a traditional character or block
60device's
61.Xr ioctl 9E
62entry point, rather it is a STREAMS-based I/O control operation.
63The data pointer of the
64.Fa mp
65argument is a
66.Xr iocblk 9S
67structure.
68After handling the message, the driver will need to reply to the message, which
69is usually done by using the
70.Xr miocack 9F
71and
72.Xr miocnak 9F
73functions to prepare
74.Fa mp .
75.Pp
76The device driver can access its soft state by casting the value pointed
77to in
78.Fa driver .
79The driver should be careful and ensure that it performs any necessary
80locking to access members of that structure while processing the I/O
81control operation.
82.Sh RETURN VALUES
83Return information is not conveyed by the return value of this function, rather
84it is encoded in the
85.Xr iocblk 9S
86structure in the
87.Fa mp
88argument.
89.Sh EXAMPLES
90The following example shows how a device driver might structure its
91.Fn mc_ioctl
92entry point.
93.Bd -literal
94#include <sys/types.h>
95#include <sys/stream.h>
96#include <sys/stropts.h>
97#include <sys/ddi.h>
98#include <sys/sunddi.h>
99
100/*
101 * Note, this example merely shows the structure of this function. It does not
102 * actively handle any device-specific ioctls and instead returns failure for
103 * every one. This is the most common case. Note, miocnak(9F) takes care of
104 * calling putnext(9F) for us.
105 */
106static void
107example_m_ioctl(void *arg, queue_t *wq, mblk_t *mp)
108{
109	miocnak(wq, mp, 0, EINVAL);
110}
111.Ed
112.Sh SEE ALSO
113.Xr ioctl 9E ,
114.Xr mac 9E ,
115.Xr put 9E ,
116.Xr mac_register 9F ,
117.Xr miocack 9F ,
118.Xr miocnak 9F ,
119.Xr putnext 9F ,
120.Xr iocblk 9S ,
121.Xr mac_register 9S
122.Rs
123.%T Writing Device Drivers
124.Re
125.Rs
126.%T STREAMS Programming Guide
127.Re
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