Synchronize with devlink management before taking the snapshot. The name argument determines which devlink management activities must complete before taking a devlink snapshot. Appropriate privileges are required to use this flag.
name
If flags is DI_MAKE_LINK, name determines which devlink management activity must complete prior to snapshot.
o
If name is NULL then all devlink management activities must complete. The devlink snapshot returned accurately reflects the entire kernel device tree.
o
If name is a driver name, devlink management activities associated with nodes bound to that driver must complete.
o
If name is a path to a node in the kernel device tree (no "/devices" prefix), devlink management activities below node must complete.
o
If name is a path to a minor node in the kernel device tree (no "/devices"prefix), devlink management activities on that minor node must complete.
hdlp
The handle to the snapshot obtained by calling di_devlink_init().
DESCRIPTION
System management applications often need to map a "/devices" path to a minor node to a public "/dev" device name. The di_devlink_*() functions provide an efficient way to accomplish this.
The di_devlink_init() function takes a snapshot of devlinks and returns a handle to this snapshot.
The di_devlink_fini() function destroys the devlink snapshot and frees the associated memory.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, di_devlink_init() returns a handle to a devlink snapshot. Otherwise, DI_LINK_NIL is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
Upon successful completion, di_devlink_fini() returns 0. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The di_devlink_init() function will fail if:
EINVAL
One or more arguments is invalid.
The di_devlink_init() function with DI_MAKE_LINK can also fail if:
EPERM
The user does no have appropriate privileges.
The di_devlink_init() function can set errno to any error value that can also be set by malloc(3C), open(2), ioctl(2), or mmap(2).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: