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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/drivers/.../remove_id
Date: February 2009
Contact: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Description:
Writing a device ID to this file will remove an ID
that was dynamically added via the new_id sysfs entry.
The format for the device ID is:
VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM. That is Vendor ID, Device
ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID, Class,
and Class Mask. The Vendor ID and Device ID fields are
required, the rest are optional. After successfully
removing an ID, the driver will no longer support the
device. This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
match the driver to the device. For example:
# echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/remove_id
What: /sys/bus/pci/rescan
Date: January 2009
Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
force a rescan of all PCI buses in the system, and
re-discover previously removed devices.
Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
Date: January 2009
Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
Date: January 2009
Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
force a rescan of the device's parent bus and all
child buses, and re-discover devices removed earlier
from this part of the device tree.
Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
Date: February 2008
Contact: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Description:
A file named vpd in a device directory will be a
binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
device. It should follow the VPD format defined in
PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
that some devices may have malformatted data. If the
underlying VPD has a writable section then the
corresponding section of this file will be writable.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfnN
Date: March 2009
Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Description:
This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it.
The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
Virtual Function whose index is N (0...MaxVFs-1).
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../dep_link
Date: March 2009
Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Description:
This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it,
and this device has vendor specific dependencies with others.
The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of
Physical Function this device depends on.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../physfn
Date: March 2009
Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Description:
This symbolic link appears when a device is a Virtual Function.
The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
Physical Function this device associates with.