.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "NOTIFIER_CALL_CHAIN" "" "06 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME notifier_call_chain \- Call functions in a notifier chain .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int notifier_call_chain (struct notifier_block ** \fIn\fB, unsigned long \fIval\fB, void * \fIv\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIn\fB\fR Pointer to root pointer of notifier chain .TP \fB\fIval\fB\fR Value passed unmodified to notifier function .TP \fB\fIv\fB\fR Pointer passed unmodified to notifier function .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Calls each function in a notifier chain in turn. .PP If the return value of the notifier can be and'd with NOTIFY_STOP_MASK, then notifier_call_chain will return immediately, with the return value of the notifier function which halted execution. Otherwise, the return value is the return value of the last notifier function called.