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# 303975 11-Aug-2016 gjb

Copy stable/11@r303970 to releng/11.0 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE
cycle.

Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, and rename it to RC1.

Update __FreeBSD_version.

Use the quarterly branch for the default FreeBSD.conf pkg(8) repo and
the dvd1.iso packages population.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 302408 08-Jul-2016 gjb

Copy head@r302406 to stable/11 as part of the 11.0-RELEASE cycle.
Prune svn:mergeinfo from the new branch, as nothing has been merged
here.

Additional commits post-branch will follow.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 298709 27-Apr-2016 jhb

Add 'devctl delete' that calls device_delete_child().

'devctl delete' can be used to delete a device that is no longer present.
As an anti-foot-shooting measure, 'delete' will not delete a device
unless it's parent bus says it is no longer present. This can be
overridden by passing the force ('-f') flag.

Note that this command should be used with care. If a device is deleted
that is actually present it can't be resurrected unless the parent bus
device's driver supports rescans.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6019


# 298707 27-Apr-2016 jhb

Add a new rescan method to the bus interface.

The BUS_RESCAN() method rescans a single bus device checking for devices
that have been added or removed from the bus. A new 'rescan' command is
added to devctl(8) to trigger a rescan.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6016


# 295174 02-Feb-2016 jhb

- Note that devctl(8) will appear in 10.3 first.
- Add missing devctl_set_driver entry to namelist in devlist(3).
- Fix sorting of function prototypes in devlist(3).

MFC after: 3 days


# 285621 16-Jul-2015 jhibbits

Fix formatting.


# 278320 06-Feb-2015 jhb

Add a new device control utility for new-bus devices called devctl. This
allows the user to request administrative changes to individual devices
such as attach or detaching drivers or disabling and re-enabling devices.
- Add a new /dev/devctl2 character device which uses ioctls for device
requests. The ioctls use a common 'struct devreq' which is somewhat
similar to 'struct ifreq'.
- The ioctls identify the device to operate on via a string. This
string can either by the device's name, or it can be a bus-specific
address. (For unattached devices, a bus address is the only way to
locate a device.) Bus drivers register an eventhandler to claim
unrecognized device names that the driver recognizes as a valid address.
Two buses currently support addresses: ACPI recognizes any device
in the ACPI namespace via its full path starting with "\" and
the PCI bus driver recognizes an address specification of
'pci[<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>:<func>' (identical to the PCI selector
strings supported by pciconf).
- To make it easier to cut and paste, change the PnP location string
in the PCI bus driver to output a full PCI selector string rather
than 'slot=<slot> function=<func>'.
- Add a devctl(3) interface in libdevctl which provides a wrapper around
the ioctls and is the preferred interface for other userland code.
- Add a devctl(8) program which is a simple wrapper around the requests
supported by devctl(3).
- Add a device_is_suspended() function to check DF_SUSPENDED.
- Add a resource_unset_value() function that can be used to remove a
hint from the kernel environment. This is used to clear a
hint.<driver>.<unit>.disabled hint when re-enabling a boot-time
disabled device.

Reviewed by: imp (parts)
Requested by: imp (changing PCI location string)
Relnotes: yes