<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >interface_id</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux SCSI Generic (sg) HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="The sg_io_hdr_t structure in detail" HREF="sg_io_hdr_t.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="The sg_io_hdr_t structure in detail" HREF="sg_io_hdr_t.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dxfer_direction" HREF="x166.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" 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 SCSI Generic (sg) HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sg_io_hdr_t.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 6. The sg_io_hdr_t structure in detail</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x166.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN163">6.1. interface_id</H1 ><P > This must be set to 'S' (capital ess). If not, the ENOSYS error message is placed in errno. The idea is to allow interface variants in the future that identify themselves with a different value. [The parallel port generic driver (pg) uses the letter 'P' to identify itself.] The type of interface_id is int.</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="sg_io_hdr_t.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x166.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >The sg_io_hdr_t structure in detail</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sg_io_hdr_t.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >dxfer_direction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >