Compaq AA-RNG2A-TE manual Implementing the Autoconfiguration Support Section attach

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Implementing the Autoconfiguration Support Section (attach)

The autoconfiguration support section implements a network device driver’s attach interface. A network device driver’s attach interface establishes communication with the device. The interface initializes the pointer to the ifnet data structure and attaches the network interface to the packet filter. The bus configuration code calls the driver’s attach interface.

The if_el device driver implements an attach( ) routine called

el_attach( ). The el_attach( ) routine performs the following tasks:

•Initializes the media address and media header lengths (Section 6.2)

•Sets up the media (Section 6.3)

•Initializes simple lock information (Section 6.4)

•Prints a success message (Section 6.5)

•Specifies the network driver interfaces (Section 6.6)

•Sets the baud rate (Section 6.7)

•Attaches to the packet filter and the network layer (Section 6.8)

•Sets network attributes and registers the adapter (Section 6.9)

•Handles reinsertion operations (Section 6.10)

•Enables the interrupt handler (Section 6.11)

•Starts the polling process (Section 6.12)

6.1Setting Up the el_attach Routine

The following code shows how to set up the el_attach( ) routine:

static int el_attach(struct controller *ctlr) 1

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register int unit = ctlr->ctlr_num; 2 register struct el_softc *sc = el_softc[unit]; register struct ifnet *ifp = &sc->is_if; 4 register struct sockaddr_in *sin; 5

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Declares as an argument a pointer to a controller data structure for this controller. This data structure contains such information as the controller type, the controller name, and the current status

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