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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	"Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@intel.com>,
	"Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2 v2] PCI: add some sysfs ABI docs
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:50:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090224055035.GF7436@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090224012625.GA7436@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

Add sysfs ABI docs for driver entries bind, unbind and new_id.  These
entries are pretty old, from 2.6.0 onwards AFAIK, so this documents
current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
v2
 - add note re: older kernels and echo -n
 - add ack from gregkh

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../bind
+Date:		December 2003
+Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		Writing a device location to this file will cause
+		the driver to attempt to bind to the device found at
+		this location.	This is useful for overriding default
+		bindings.  The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F.
+		That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as
+		found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/.  For example:
+		# echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/bind
+		(Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n).
+
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../unbind
+Date:		December 2003
+Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		Writing a device location to this file will cause the
+		driver to attempt to unbind from the device found at
+		this location.	This may be useful when overriding default
+		bindings.  The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F.
+		That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as
+		found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example:
+		# echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/unbind
+		(Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n).
+
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../new_id
+Date:		December 2003
+Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		Writing a device ID to this file will attempt to
+		dynamically add a new device ID to a PCI device driver.
+		This may allow the driver to support more hardware than
+		was included in the driver's static device ID support
+		table at compile time.  The format for the device ID is:
+		VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM PPPP.  That is Vendor ID,
+		Device ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID,
+		Class, Class Mask, and Private Driver Data.  The Vendor ID
+		and Device ID fields are required, the rest are optional.
+		Upon successfully adding an ID, the driver will probe
+		for the device and attempt to bind to it.  For example:
+		# echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/new_id
+
 What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
 Date:		February 2008
 Contact:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-13 16:32 KVM PCI device assignment issues Mark McLoughlin
2009-02-13 16:56 ` Greg KH
2009-02-13 17:06   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-02-13 17:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-02-13 18:22   ` Chris Wright
2009-02-13 19:47     ` Chris Wright
2009-02-24  9:20   ` Zhao, Yu
2009-02-14  2:12 ` [PATCH] pci: add remove_id sysfs entry Chris Wright
2009-02-14  3:33   ` Greg KH
2009-02-24  1:26     ` Chris Wright
2009-02-24  2:17       ` [PATCH 1/2] PCI: add some sysfs ABI docs Chris Wright
2009-02-24  2:18         ` [PATCH 2/2] PCI: add remove_id sysfs entry Chris Wright
2009-02-24  3:47           ` Greg KH
2009-02-24  5:33             ` Chris Wright
2009-02-24  5:43               ` Greg KH
2009-02-24  3:47         ` [PATCH 1/2] PCI: add some sysfs ABI docs Greg KH
2009-02-24  5:08           ` Chris Wright
2009-02-24  5:50       ` Chris Wright [this message]
2009-02-24  5:52         ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] PCI: add remove_id sysfs entry Chris Wright
2009-02-26  5:37           ` Han, Weidong
2009-02-27  0:27             ` Chris Wright
2009-03-20  0:35           ` Jesse Barnes
2009-02-24 17:37         ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] PCI: add some sysfs ABI docs Jesse Barnes

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