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Message-Id: <4704a993f270295cf4c364aac908996356c39224.1240489461.git.keil@b1-systems.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:24:21 +0200
From: Karsten Keil <karsten-keil@...nline.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, tilman@...p.cc,
isdn4linux@...tserv.isdn4linux.de,
i4ldeveloper@...tserv.isdn4linux.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] Add reference to CAPI 2.0 standard
From: Karsten Keil <keil@...systems.de>
Move the entry about CAPI 2.0 to the beginning and add a URL.
Incorporate changes suggested by Randy Dunlap, thanks for proofreading.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <keil@...systems.de>
---
Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI | 20 +++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI
index 8947ffc..786d619 100644
--- a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI
+++ b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.CAPI
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ Kernel CAPI Interface to Hardware Drivers
1. Overview
+From the CAPI 2.0 specification:
+COMMON-ISDN-API (CAPI) is an application programming interface standard used
+to access ISDN equipment connected to basic rate interfaces (BRI) and primary
+rate interfaces (PRI).
+
Kernel CAPI operates as a dispatching layer between CAPI applications and CAPI
hardware drivers. Hardware drivers register ISDN devices (controllers, in CAPI
lingo) with Kernel CAPI to indicate their readiness to provide their service
@@ -12,6 +17,9 @@ application registration to an available device, forwarding it to the
corresponding hardware driver. Kernel CAPI then forwards CAPI messages in both
directions between the application and the hardware driver.
+Format and semantics of CAPI messages are specified in the CAPI 2.0 standard.
+This standard is freely available from http://www.capi.org.
+
2. Driver and Device Registration
@@ -53,12 +61,10 @@ open() operation on regular files or character devices.
After a successful return from register_appl(), CAPI messages from the
application may be passed to the driver for the device via calls to the
send_message() callback function. The CAPI message to send is stored in the
-data portion of a skb. Conversely, the driver may call Kernel CAPI's
+data portion of an skb. Conversely, the driver may call Kernel CAPI's
capi_ctr_handle_message() function to pass a received CAPI message to Kernel
CAPI for forwarding to an application, specifying its ApplID.
-Format and semantics of CAPI messages are specified in the CAPI 2.0 standard.
-
Deregistration requests (CAPI operation CAPI_RELEASE) from applications are
forwarded as calls to the release_appl() callback function, passing the same
ApplID as with register_appl(). After return from release_appl(), no CAPI
@@ -75,9 +81,9 @@ the following non-private fields, all to be set by the driver before calling
register_capi_driver():
char name[32]
- the name of the driver, as a zero terminated ASCII string
+ the name of the driver, as a zero-terminated ASCII string
char revision[32]
- the revision number of the driver, as a zero terminated ASCII string
+ the revision number of the driver, as a zero-terminated ASCII string
int (*add_card)(struct capi_driver *driver, capicardparams *data)
a callback function pointer (may be NULL)
@@ -100,10 +106,10 @@ void *driverdata
an opaque pointer to driver specific data, not touched by Kernel CAPI
char name[32]
- the name of the controller, as a zero terminated ASCII string
+ the name of the controller, as a zero-terminated ASCII string
char *driver_name
- the name of the driver, as a zero terminated ASCII string
+ the name of the driver, as a zero-terminated ASCII string
int (*load_firmware)(struct capi_ctr *ctrlr, capiloaddata *ldata)
(optional) pointer to a callback function for sending firmware and
--
1.6.0.2
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