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insert request and wait for the result
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">scsi_execute </b>(</code></td><td>struct scsi_device * <var class="pdparam">sdev</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const unsigned char * <var class="pdparam">cmd</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">data_direction</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>void * <var class="pdparam">buffer</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>unsigned <var class="pdparam">bufflen</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>unsigned char * <var class="pdparam">sense</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">timeout</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">retries</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">flags</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int * <var class="pdparam">resid</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2702503"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>sdev</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
scsi device
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>cmd</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
scsi command
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>data_direction</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
data direction
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>buffer</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
data buffer
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>bufflen</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
len of buffer
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>sense</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
optional sense buffer
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>timeout</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
request timeout in seconds
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>retries</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
number of times to retry request
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>flags</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
or into request flags;
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>resid</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
optional residual length
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2702675"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
returns the req->errors value which is the scsi_cmnd result
field.
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