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authorAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>2009-03-20 21:56:31 +0100
committerJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>2009-03-20 22:57:58 +0100
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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 <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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@@ -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 <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/.../vpd
Date: February 2008
Contact: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>