tree 268a4592aaf2e6a43c82571dde4aae2cd2938100
parent 75acfecaa031c0e1bc412cee4fe58ba49ff3406c
author Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> 1146301148 +0200
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1150916399 -0700

[PATCH] PCI: Add a "enable" sysfs attribute to the pci devices to allow userspace (Xorg) to enable devices without doing foul direct access

This patch adds an "enable" sysfs attribute to each PCI device. When read it
shows the "enabled-ness" of the device, but you can write a "0" into it to
disable a device, and a "1" to enable it.

This later is needed for X and other cases where userspace wants to enable
the BARs on a device (typical example: to run the video bios on a secundary
head). Right now X does all this "by hand" via bitbanging, that's just evil.
This allows X to no longer do that but to just let the kernel do this.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
CC: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>