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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt index 68ef48839c0..9f8740ca3f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this: | |-- class | |-- config | |-- device + | |-- enable | |-- irq | |-- local_cpus | |-- resource @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ files, each with their own function. class PCI class (ascii, ro) config PCI config space (binary, rw) device PCI device (ascii, ro) + enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw) irq IRQ number (ascii, ro) local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro) resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro) @@ -57,10 +59,19 @@ used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return value from any attempted mmap. +The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device +has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is +echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease +the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation +may not be reversed. + The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read -call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. +call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note +that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully. +In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the +'enable' file, documented above. Accessing legacy resources through sysfs ---------------------------------------- |