Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci

   1 What:           /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../bind
   2 Date:           December 2003
   3 Contact:        linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
   4 Description:
   5                 Writing a device location to this file will cause
   6                 the driver to attempt to bind to the device found at
   7                 this location.  This is useful for overriding default
   8                 bindings.  The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F.
   9                 That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as
  10                 found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/.  For example:
  11                 # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/bind
  12                 (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n).
  13
  14 What:           /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../unbind
  15 Date:           December 2003
  16 Contact:        linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
  17 Description:
  18                 Writing a device location to this file will cause the
  19                 driver to attempt to unbind from the device found at
  20                 this location.  This may be useful when overriding default
  21                 bindings.  The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F.
  22                 That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as
  23                 found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example:
  24                 # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/unbind
  25                 (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n).
  26
  27 What:           /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../new_id
  28 Date:           December 2003
  29 Contact:        linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
  30 Description:
  31                 Writing a device ID to this file will attempt to
  32                 dynamically add a new device ID to a PCI device driver.
  33                 This may allow the driver to support more hardware than
  34                 was included in the driver's static device ID support
  35                 table at compile time.  The format for the device ID is:
  36                 VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM PPPP.  That is Vendor ID,
  37                 Device ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID,
  38                 Class, Class Mask, and Private Driver Data.  The Vendor ID
  39                 and Device ID fields are required, the rest are optional.
  40                 Upon successfully adding an ID, the driver will probe
  41                 for the device and attempt to bind to it.  For example:
  42                 # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/new_id
  43
  44 What:           /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
  45 Date:           February 2008
  46 Contact:        Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
  47 Description:
  48                 A file named vpd in a device directory will be a
  49                 binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
  50                 device.  It should follow the VPD format defined in
  51                 PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
  52                 that some devices may have malformatted data.  If the
  53                 underlying VPD has a writable section then the
  54                 corresponding section of this file will be writable.