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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>scsi_alloc_target</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SCSI Interfaces Guide" /><link rel="up" href="ch03.html#scsi_scan.c" title="drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c" /><link rel="prev" href="re80.html" title="scsi_alloc_sdev" /><link rel="next" href="re82.html" title="scsi_target_reap" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>scsi_alloc_target</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re80.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re82.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="scsi_alloc_target"><a id="API-scsi-alloc-target"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>scsi_alloc_target —
allocate a new or find an existing target
</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">struct scsi_target * <b class="fsfunc">scsi_alloc_target </b>(</code></td><td>struct device * <var class="pdparam">parent</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">channel</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>uint <var class="pdparam">id</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2761713"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>parent</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
parent of the target (need not be a scsi host)
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>channel</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
target channel number (zero if no channels)
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>id</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
target id number
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2761772"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
Return an existing target if one exists, provided it hasn't already
gone into STARGET_DEL state, otherwise allocate a new target.
</p><p>
The target is returned with an incremented reference, so the caller
is responsible for both reaping and doing a last put
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