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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/drivers/.../remove_id
45	Date:		February 2009
46	Contact:	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
47	Description:
48			Writing a device ID to this file will remove an ID
49			that was dynamically added via the new_id sysfs entry.
50			The format for the device ID is:
51			VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM.	That is Vendor ID, Device
52			ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID, Class,
53			and Class Mask.  The Vendor ID and Device ID fields are
54			required, the rest are optional.  After successfully
55			removing an ID, the driver will no longer support the
56			device.  This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
57			match the driver to the device.  For example:
58			# echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/remove_id
59	
60	What:		/sys/bus/pci/rescan
61	Date:		January 2009
62	Contact:	Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
63	Description:
64			Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
65			force a rescan of all PCI buses in the system, and
66			re-discover previously removed devices.
67			Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
68	
69	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_irqs/
70	Date:		September, 2011
71	Contact:	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
72	Description:
73			The /sys/devices/.../msi_irqs directory contains a variable set
74			of sub-directories, with each sub-directory being named after a
75			corresponding msi irq vector allocated to that device.  Each
76			numbered sub-directory N contains attributes of that irq.
77			Note that this directory is not created for device drivers which
78			do not support msi irqs
79	
80	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_irqs/<N>/mode
81	Date:		September 2011
82	Contact:	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
83	Description:
84			This attribute indicates the mode that the irq vector named by
85			the parent directory is in (msi vs. msix)
86	
87	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
88	Date:		January 2009
89	Contact:	Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
90	Description:
91			Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
92			hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
93			Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
94	
95	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../pci_bus/.../rescan
96	Date:		May 2011
97	Contact:	Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
98	Description:
99			Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
100			force a rescan of the bus and all child buses,
101			and re-discover devices removed earlier from this
102			part of the device tree.  Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
103	
104	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
105	Date:		January 2009
106	Contact:	Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
107	Description:
108			Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
109			force a rescan of the device's parent bus and all
110			child buses, and re-discover devices removed earlier
111			from this part of the device tree.
112			Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
113	
114	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../reset
115	Date:		July 2009
116	Contact:	Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
117	Description:
118			Some devices allow an individual function to be reset
119			without affecting other functions in the same device.
120			For devices that have this support, a file named reset
121			will be present in sysfs.  Writing 1 to this file
122			will perform reset.
123	
124	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
125	Date:		February 2008
126	Contact:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
127	Description:
128			A file named vpd in a device directory will be a
129			binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
130			device.  It should follow the VPD format defined in
131			PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
132			that some devices may have malformatted data.  If the
133			underlying VPD has a writable section then the
134			corresponding section of this file will be writable.
135	
136	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfnN
137	Date:		March 2009
138	Contact:	Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
139	Description:
140			This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
141			capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it.
142			The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
143			Virtual Function whose index is N (0...MaxVFs-1).
144	
145	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../dep_link
146	Date:		March 2009
147	Contact:	Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
148	Description:
149			This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
150			capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it,
151			and this device has vendor specific dependencies with others.
152			The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of
153			Physical Function this device depends on.
154	
155	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../physfn
156	Date:		March 2009
157	Contact:	Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
158	Description:
159			This symbolic link appears when a device is a Virtual Function.
160			The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
161			Physical Function this device associates with.
162	
163	What:		/sys/bus/pci/slots/.../module
164	Date:		June 2009
165	Contact:	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
166	Description:
167			This symbolic link points to the PCI hotplug controller driver
168			module that manages the hotplug slot.
169	
170	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label
171	Date:		July 2010
172	Contact:	Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
173	Description:
174			Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
175			given name (SMBIOS type 41 string or ACPI _DSM string) of
176			the PCI device.	The attribute will be created only
177			if the firmware	has given a name to the PCI device.
178			ACPI _DSM string name will be given priority if the
179			system firmware provides SMBIOS type 41 string also.
180	Users:
181			Userspace applications interested in knowing the
182			firmware assigned name of the PCI device.
183	
184	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../index
185	Date:		July 2010
186	Contact:	Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
187	Description:
188			Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
189			given instance (SMBIOS type 41 device type instance) of the
190			PCI device. The attribute will be created only if the firmware
191			has given an instance number to the PCI device.
192	Users:
193			Userspace applications interested in knowing the
194			firmware assigned device type instance of the PCI
195			device that can help in understanding the firmware
196			intended order of the PCI device.
197	
198	What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../acpi_index
199	Date:		July 2010
200	Contact:	Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
201	Description:
202			Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
203			given instance (ACPI _DSM instance number) of the PCI device.
204			The attribute will be created only if the firmware has given
205			an instance number to the PCI device. ACPI _DSM instance number
206			will be given priority if the system firmware provides SMBIOS
207			type 41 device type instance also.
208	Users:
209			Userspace applications interested in knowing the
210			firmware assigned instance number of the PCI
211			device that can help in understanding the firmware
212			intended order of the PCI device.
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