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      1 /** @file
      2   UEFI Driver Family Protocol
      3 
      4 Copyright (c) 2007 - 2010, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
      5 This program and the accompanying materials are licensed and made available under
      6 the terms and conditions of the BSD License that accompanies this distribution.
      7 The full text of the license may be found at
      8 http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php.
      9 
     10 THE PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED UNDER THE BSD LICENSE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,
     11 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
     12 
     13 **/
     14 
     15 #ifndef __EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_H__
     16 #define __EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_H__
     17 
     18 #define EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_PROTOCOL_GUID \
     19   { \
     20     0xb1ee129e, 0xda36, 0x4181, { 0x91, 0xf8, 0x4, 0xa4, 0x92, 0x37, 0x66, 0xa7 } \
     21   }
     22 
     23 typedef struct _EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_PROTOCOL  EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_PROTOCOL;
     24 
     25 //
     26 // Prototypes for the Driver Family Override Protocol
     27 //
     28 //
     29 /**
     30   This function returns the version value associated with the driver specified by This.
     31 
     32   Retrieves the version of the driver that is used by the EFI Boot Service ConnectController()
     33   to sort the set of Driver Binding Protocols in order from highest priority to lowest priority.
     34   For drivers that support the Driver Family Override Protocol, those drivers are sorted so that
     35   the drivers with higher values returned by GetVersion() are higher priority than drivers that
     36   return lower values from GetVersion().
     37 
     38   @param  This                  A pointer to the EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_PROTOCOL instance.
     39 
     40   @return The version value associated with the driver specified by This.
     41 
     42 **/
     43 typedef
     44 UINT32
     45 (EFIAPI *EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_GET_VERSION)(
     46   IN EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_PROTOCOL    *This
     47   );
     48 
     49 ///
     50 /// When installed, the Driver Family Override Protocol produces a GUID that represents
     51 /// a family of drivers.  Drivers with the same GUID are members of the same family
     52 /// When drivers are connected to controllers, drivers with a higher revision value
     53 /// in the same driver family are connected with a higher priority than drivers
     54 /// with a lower revision value in the same driver family.  The EFI Boot Service
     55 /// Connect Controller uses five rules to build a prioritized list of drivers when
     56 /// a request is made to connect a driver to a controller.  The Driver Family Protocol
     57 /// rule is between the Platform Specific Driver Override Protocol and above the
     58 /// Bus Specific Driver Override Protocol.
     59 ///
     60 struct _EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_PROTOCOL {
     61   EFI_DRIVER_FAMILY_OVERRIDE_GET_VERSION GetVersion;
     62 };
     63 
     64 extern EFI_GUID gEfiDriverFamilyOverrideProtocolGuid;
     65 
     66 #endif
     67