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man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Properties and Data Structures Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
- MAC device driver registration data structure
#include <sys/mac_provider.h> #include <sys/mac_ether.h>
Solaris architecture specific (Solaris DDI)
The mac_register data structure is passed by device drivers to the MAC layer when registering using mac_register(9F).
uint_t m_version; /* set by framework */ const char *m_type_ident; void *m_driver; dev_info_t *m_dip; uint_t m_instance; uint8_t *m_src_addr; uint8_t *m_dst_addr; mac_callbacks_t *m_callbacks; uint_t m_min_sdu; uint_t m_max_sdu; void *m_pdata; size_t m_pdata_size; mac_priv_prop_t *m_priv_props; uint32_t m_margin;
The following fields of mac_register_t must be set by the device driver before invoking the mac_register()entry point:
Set by mac_alloc(9F), device drivers should not modify this field.
Must be set to one of the following depending on the type of device being registered.
Ethernet driver
Driver handle, opaque to the framework, usually points to a per-driver instance data structure. Passed back as argument to driver's entry points invoked by the framework.
Pointer to the driver instance dev_info structure, see attach(9E).
Used by the driver to specify the instance number to be associated with the MAC being registered. This value should always specified by 0.
Pointer to the primary MAC address value of the MAC instance.
Pointer to the destination MAC address value of a fixed destination MAC address. This field is optional and should be set to NULL for regular device drivers.
Pointer to an instance of the mac_callbacks(9S) structure.
Minimum Service Data Unit size, the minimum packet size, not including the MAC header, that the device can transmit. This can be zero if the device driver can handle any required padding.
Maximum Service Data Unit size, the maximum packet size, not including the MAC header, that can be transmitted by the device. For Ethernet, this number is commonly referred to as the MTU (maximum transmission unit.)
Array of driver-private property names, terminated by a null pointer.
Drivers set this value to the amount of data in bytes that the device can transmit beyond m_max_sdu. For example, if an Ethernet device can handle packets whose payload section is no greater than 1522 bytes and m_max_sdu is set to 1500 (as is typical for Ethernet), then m_margin is set to 22.
See mac_register(9F) for more information about the use of these fields.
The driver is responsible for allocating the memory pointed to by the fields m_priv_props, m_src_addr, and m_dst_addr. The driver can free this memory after the call to mac_register() returns.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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attributes(5), attach(9E), mac_register(9F), mac_callbacks(9S)