STRUCT IRB(9) | The ccw bus | STRUCT IRB(9) |
NAME¶
struct_irb - interruption response block
SYNOPSIS¶
struct irb {
union scsw scsw;
union esw;
__u8 ecw[32]; };
MEMBERS¶
scsw
subchannel status word
esw
extened status word
ecw[32]
extended control word
DESCRIPTION¶
The irb that is handed to the device driver when an interrupt occurs. For solicited interrupts, the common I/O layer already performs checks whether a field is valid; a field not being valid is always passed as 0. If a unit check occured, ecw may contain sense data; this is retrieved by the common I/O layer itself if the device doesn´t support concurrent sense (so that the device driver never needs to perform basic sene itself). For unsolicited interrupts, the irb is passed as-is (expect for sense data, if applicable).
AUTHOR¶
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Author.
COPYRIGHT¶
May 2024 | Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6. |