PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
This interface allows the user to force a rescan of the device's
parent bus and all subordinate buses, and rediscover devices removed
earlier from this part of the device tree.
Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index daa791a..97ad190 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -74,6 +74,16 @@
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/.../vpd
Date: February 2008
Contact: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>