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3.4 KiB
Groff
87 lines
3.4 KiB
Groff
.\" -*- nroff -*-
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.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Doug Rabson
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.\"
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This program is free software.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPERS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 16, 1998
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.Dt DEVICE_PROBE 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm DEVICE_PROBE
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.Nd probe for device existence
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/param.h
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.In sys/bus.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn DEVICE_PROBE "device_t dev"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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This device method should probe to see if the device is present.
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It should return 0 if the device exists,
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.Er ENXIO
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if it cannot be found.
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If some other error happens during the probe (such as a memory
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allocation failure), an appropriate error code should be returned.
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For
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cases where more than one driver matches a device, a priority value can
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be returned. In this case, success codes are values less than or equal
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to zero with the highest value representing the best match. Failure
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codes are represented by positive values and the regular unix error
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codes should be used for the purpose.
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.Pp
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If a driver returns a success code which is less than zero, it must
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not assume that it will be the same driver which is attached to the
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device.
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In particular, it must not assume that any values stored in
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the softc structure will be available for its attach method and any
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resources allocated during probe must be released and re-allocated
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if the attach method is called.
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If a success code of zero is
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returned, the driver can assume that it will be the one attached.
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.Pp
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Devices which implement busses should use this method to probe for
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the existence of devices attached to the bus and add them as
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children.
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If this is combined with the use of
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.Xr bus_generic_attach 9
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the child devices will be automatically probed and attached.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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A value equal to or less than zero indicates success, greater than
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zero indicates an error (errno). For values equal to or less than
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zero: zero indicates highest priority, no further probing is done;
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for a value less then zero, the lower the value the lower the
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priority, e.g. -100 indicates a lower priority than -50.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr device 9 ,
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.Xr DEVICE_DETACH 9 ,
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.Xr DEVICE_IDENTIFY 9 ,
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.Xr DEVICE_PROBE 9 ,
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.Xr DEVICE_SHUTDOWN 9
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This man page was written by
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.An Doug Rabson .
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