parport_register_port — register a parallel port
struct parport * parport_register_port ( | unsigned long | base, |
| int | irq, | |
| int | dma, | |
| struct parport_operations * | ops); |
basebase I/O address
irqIRQ line
dmaDMA channel
opspointer to the port driver's port operations structure
When a parallel port (lowlevel) driver finds a port that
should be made available to parallel port device drivers, it
should call parport_register_port. The base, irq, and
dma parameters are for the convenience of port drivers, and
for ports where they aren't meaningful needn't be set to
anything special. They can be altered afterwards by adjusting
the relevant members of the parport structure that is returned
and represents the port. They should not be tampered with
after calling parport_announce_port, however.
If there are parallel port device drivers in the system that
have registered themselves using parport_register_driver,
they are not told about the port at this time; that is done by
parport_announce_port.
The ops structure is allocated by the caller, and must not be
deallocated before calling parport_remove_port.
If there is no memory to allocate a new parport structure,
this function will return NULL.