parport_yield_blocking(9)

parport_yield_blocking9

Relinquish a parallel port temporarily

Usage

int parport_yield_blocking(struct pardevice * dev);

Arguments

dev

a device on the parallel port

Overview

This function relinquishes the port if it would be helpful to other drivers to do so. Afterwards it tries to reclaim the port using parport_claim_or_block, and the return value is the same as for parport_claim_or_block.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.