<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >parport_claim_or_block</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux 2.4 Parallel Port Subsystem" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE=" Linux parallel port driver API reference " HREF="a950.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="parport_claim" HREF="r1563.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="parport_release" HREF="r1617.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux 2.4 Parallel Port Subsystem</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r1563.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r1617.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN1590" ></A ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >parport_claim_or_block</SPAN ></SPAN ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1594" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >parport_claim_or_block -- claim access to a parallel port device </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1597" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN1599" ></A ><P ></P ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >parport_claim_or_block </TT ></CODE >(struct pardevice * <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dev</I ></TT >);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1605" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >dev</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > pointer to structure representing a device on the port </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1613" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > This behaves like <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >parport_claim</TT >, but will block if necessary to wait for the port to be free. A return value of 1 indicates that it slept; 0 means that it succeeded without needing to sleep. A negative error code indicates failure. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r1563.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r1617.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >parport_claim</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="a950.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >parport_release</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >