1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>sas_phy_alloc</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SCSI Interfaces Guide"><link rel="up" href="Transport_classes.html#SAS_transport" title="Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) transport class"><link rel="prev" href="API-sas-enable-tlr.html" title="sas_enable_tlr"><link rel="next" href="API-sas-phy-add.html" title="sas_phy_add"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">sas_phy_alloc</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-sas-enable-tlr.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) transport class</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-sas-phy-add.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-sas-phy-alloc"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>sas_phy_alloc &#8212; 
2     allocates and initialize a SAS PHY structure
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct sas_phy * <b class="fsfunc">sas_phy_alloc </b>(</code></td><td>struct device * <var class="pdparam">parent</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>int <var class="pdparam">number</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1124626132"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>parent</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     Parent device
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>number</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     Phy index
7    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1124628756"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
8   Allocates an SAS PHY structure.  It will be added in the device tree
9   below the device specified by <em class="parameter"><code>parent</code></em>, which has to be either a Scsi_Host
10   or sas_rphy.
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12   SAS PHY allocated or <code class="constant">NULL</code> if the allocation failed.
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