From 705b1aaa823e800490f157cd9366ad8cff385f5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Chiang Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:56:31 -0600 Subject: PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/rescan This interface allows the user to force a rescan of all PCI buses in system, and rediscover devices that have been removed earlier. pci_bus_attrs implementation from Trent Piepho. Thanks to Vegard Nossum for discovering locking issues with the sysfs interface. Cc: Trent Piepho Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci index d175a2a5fac2..e6ad047cb3c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci @@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ Description: 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 +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/.../vpd Date: February 2008 Contact: Ben Hutchings -- cgit v1.2.3