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Conventions Used in This Guide

Special terms and special kinds of words are indicated with the following typographical conventions:

Data structures, variables, function arguments, and macros.The dsiovec structure has members iov_base and iov_len. Use the IOVLEN macro to access them.
Kernel and library functions and functions in examples.When successful, v_mapphys() returns 0.
Driver entry point names that must be completed with a unique prefix string.The munmap() system function calls the pfxunmap() entry point.
Files and directories.Device special files are in /dev, and are created using the /dev/MAKEDEV script.
First use of terms defined in the glossary (see "Glossary" on page 585).The inode of a device special file contains the major device number.
Literal quotes of code examples.The SCSI driver's prefix is scsi_.
Citations of reference pages in red are clickable hyperlinks.See the kvtophys(D3) reference page.



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