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[1/2,v2] PCI: add some sysfs ABI docs

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Chris Wright Feb. 24, 2009, 5:50 a.m. UTC 
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>
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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(+)

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Jesse Barnes Feb. 24, 2009, 5:37 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Monday, February 23, 2009 9:50:35 pm Chris Wright wrote:
> 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>

Applied to my for-linus tree, thanks.
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--- 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>