linux/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
Narendra K 911e1c9b05 PCI: export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs
This patch exports SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label of
onboard PCI devices to sysfs.  New files are:
  /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label which contains the firmware name for
the device in question, and
  /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../index which contains the firmware device type
instance for the given device.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave <jordan_hargrave@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-07-30 09:36:01 -07:00

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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/drivers/.../remove_id
Date: February 2009
Contact: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Description:
Writing a device ID to this file will remove an ID
that was dynamically added via the new_id sysfs entry.
The format for the device ID is:
VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM. That is Vendor ID, Device
ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID, Class,
and Class Mask. The Vendor ID and Device ID fields are
required, the rest are optional. After successfully
removing an ID, the driver will no longer support the
device. This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
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/.../remove
Date: January 2009
Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../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 the device's parent bus and all
child buses, and re-discover devices removed earlier
from this part of the device tree.
Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../reset
Date: July 2009
Contact: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Description:
Some devices allow an individual function to be reset
without affecting other functions in the same device.
For devices that have this support, a file named reset
will be present in sysfs. Writing 1 to this file
will perform reset.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
Date: February 2008
Contact: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Description:
A file named vpd in a device directory will be a
binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
device. It should follow the VPD format defined in
PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
that some devices may have malformatted data. If the
underlying VPD has a writable section then the
corresponding section of this file will be writable.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfnN
Date: March 2009
Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Description:
This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it.
The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
Virtual Function whose index is N (0...MaxVFs-1).
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../dep_link
Date: March 2009
Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Description:
This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it,
and this device has vendor specific dependencies with others.
The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of
Physical Function this device depends on.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../physfn
Date: March 2009
Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Description:
This symbolic link appears when a device is a Virtual Function.
The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
Physical Function this device associates with.
What: /sys/bus/pci/slots/.../module
Date: June 2009
Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Description:
This symbolic link points to the PCI hotplug controller driver
module that manages the hotplug slot.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label
Date: July 2010
Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
Description:
Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
given name(SMBIOS type 41 string) of the PCI device.
The attribute will be created only if the firmware
has given a name to the PCI device.
Users:
Userspace applications interested in knowing the
firmware assigned name of the PCI device.
What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../index
Date: July 2010
Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
Description:
Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
given instance(SMBIOS type 41 device type instance)
of the PCI device. The attribute will be created
only if the firmware has given a device type instance
to the PCI device.
Users:
Userspace applications interested in knowing the
firmware assigned device type instance of the PCI
device that can help in understanding the firmware
intended order of the PCI device.