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35 .Nd CAM application passthrough driver
41 driver provides a way for userland applications to issue CAM CCBs to the
46 driver allows direct access to the CAM subsystem, system administrators
47 should exercise caution when granting access to this driver.
49 improperly, this driver can allow userland applications to crash a machine
54 driver attaches to every
56 device found in the system.
57 Since it attaches to every device, it provides a generic means of accessing
59 devices, and allows the user to access devices which have no
60 "standard" peripheral driver associated with them.
61 .Sh KERNEL CONFIGURATION
62 It is only necessary to configure one
66 devices are automatically allocated as
70 .Bl -tag -width 012345678901234
72 This ioctl takes most kinds of CAM CCBs and passes them through to the CAM
73 transport layer for action.
74 Note that some CCB types are not allowed
75 through the passthrough device, and must be sent through the
78 Some examples of xpt-only CCBs are XPT_SCAN_BUS,
79 XPT_DEV_MATCH, XPT_RESET_BUS, XPT_SCAN_LUN, XPT_ENG_INQ, and XPT_ENG_EXEC.
80 These CCB types have various attributes that make it illogical or
81 impossible to service them through the passthrough interface.
83 This ioctl takes an XPT_GDEVLIST CCB, and returns the passthrough device
84 corresponding to the device in question.
85 Although this ioctl is available through the
87 driver, it is of limited use, since the caller must already know that
88 the device in question is a passthrough device if they are issuing this
90 It is probably more useful to issue this ioctl through the
95 .Bl -tag -width /dev/passn -compact
96 .It Pa /dev/pass Ns Ar n
97 Character device nodes for the
100 There should be one of these for each device accessed through the
111 The CAM passthrough driver first appeared in
114 .An Kenneth Merry Aq ken@FreeBSD.org
116 It might be nice to have a way to asynchronously send CCBs through the
118 This would probably require some sort of read/write
119 interface or an asynchronous ioctl interface.