SERVICE_PROVIDER.CONF(4)SERVICE_PROVIDER.CONF(4)NAMEservice_provider.conf - service provider configuration file
SYNOPSISservice_provider.confDESCRIPTIONservice_provider.conf contains information about the device type that
the service provider supports. This information includes the pathname
of the service provider library, the library version and other library
characteristics that are required by the system administrative command,
datadm(1M). datadm(1M) puts this information in the DAT static regis‐
ter file, dat.conf(4).
The datadm program enumerates each device entry into a list of inter‐
face adapters, that is, interfaces to external network that are avail‐
able to uDAPL consumers. This new list of interface adapters is
appended to other service providers' information in the DAT static reg‐
istry, dat.conf. You can do this is you invoke the datadm program with
the -a option and the pathname of the service_provider.conf file.
Each entry in the service_provider.conf is a single line of 7 fields.
The following shows the order of the fields in a service_provider.conf
entry:
"driver_name" "API_version" "threadsafe_library | \
nonthreadsafe_library"\
"default_version | nondefault_version" \
"service_provider_library_pathname"\
"service_provider_version" "service_provider_instance_data"\
The fields are defined as follows:
driver_name
Specifies a driver name in the format of driver_name=value pair,
for example, driver_name=tavor.
API_version
Specifies the API version of the service provide library: For exam‐
ple, "u"major.minor is u1.2.
threadsafe_library | nonthreadsafe_librar
Specifies a threadsafe or non-threadsafe library.
default_version | nondefault_version
Specifies a default or non-default version of library. A service
provider can offer several versions of the library. If so, one ver‐
sion is designated as default with the rest as nondefault.
service_provider_library_pathname
Specifies the pathname of the library image.
service_provider_version
Specifies the version of the service provider. By convention, spec‐
ify the company stock symbol as the service provider, followed by
major and minor version numbers, for example, SUNW1.0.
service_provider_instance_data
Specifies the service provider instance data.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using a Logical Device Name
The following example service_provider.conf entry uses a logical device
name:
#
# Sample service_provider.conf entry showing an uDAPL 1.2 service
# provider, udapl_tavor.so.1 supporting a device with a driver named
# tavor
driver_name=tavor u1.2 nonthreadsafe default udapl_tavor.so.1 \
SUNW.1.0 ""
Example 2 Using a Physical Device Name
The following example service_provider.conf uses a physical device
name:
#
# Sample service_provider.conf entry showing an uDAPL 1.2
# service provider, udapl_tavor.so.1 supporting a device named
# pci15b3,5a44 that can be located under /devices
#
pci15b3,5a44 u1.2 nonthreadsafe default \
/usr/lib/tavor/udapl_tavor.so.1 SUNWudaplt1.0 ""
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌───────────────┬─────────────────┐
│ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
│Stability │ Evolving │
└───────────────┴─────────────────┘
SEE ALSOdatadm(1M), dat.conf(4), attributes(5)
Jun 18, 2004 SERVICE_PROVIDER.CONF(4)
