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| author | Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> | 2009-03-20 14:56:41 -0600 |
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| committer | Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> | 2009-03-20 14:59:07 -0700 |
| commit | 738a6396c223b486304dda778119dbbca563f019 (patch) | |
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PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
This interface allows the user to force a rescan of the device's
parent bus and all subordinate buses, and rediscover devices removed
earlier from this part of the device tree.
Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci index daa791a9e85e..97ad190e13af 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci @@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ Description: 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> |