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.\"      Date: January 2017
.\"    Manual: libata Core Internals
.\"    Source: Kernel Hackers Manual 4.8.15
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "ATA_FINALIZE_PORT_OP" "9" "January 2017" "Kernel Hackers Manual 4\&.8\&." "libata Core Internals"
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.SH "NAME"
ata_finalize_port_ops \- finalize ata_port_operations
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'void\ ata_finalize_port_ops('u
.BI "void ata_finalize_port_ops(struct\ ata_port_operations\ *\ " "ops" ");"
.SH "ARGUMENTS"
.PP
\fIops\fR
.RS 4
ata_port_operations to finalize
.RE
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
An ata_port_operations can inherit from another ops and that ops can again inherit from another\&. This can go on as many times as necessary as long as there is no loop in the inheritance chain\&.
.PP
Ops tables are finalized when the host is started\&. NULL or unspecified entries are inherited from the closet ancestor which has the method and the entry is populated with it\&. After finalization, the ops table directly points to all the methods and \->inherits is no longer necessary and cleared\&.
.PP
Using ATA_OP_NULL, inheriting ops can force a method to NULL\&.
.PP
LOCKING: None\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBJeff Garzik\fR
.RS 4
Author.
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.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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