History log of /freebsd-current/usr.sbin/devctl/devctl.8
Revision Date Author Comments
# fa9896e0 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 81d1214e 06-Apr-2022 Christian Weisgerber <naddy@FreeBSD.org>

man pages: Fix typo

s/the the/the/

Approved by: ygy (doc)


# f5366026 28-Feb-2022 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

devctl: add getpath command

Retrieves that path for a device. Different methods to enumerat the path
are supported, called locators.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32747


# 315674fb 31-May-2021 Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>

Add freeze/thaw description to devctl(8)

This is a follow-up to 5fa29797910346fc0c54829bd979856e83b9b7ea .

PR: 256311
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29867


# 267d86e1 19-Dec-2020 Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>

devctl(8): Correct "sections out of conventional order" error

MFC after: 1 week


# 4fbf8e1c 05-Apr-2019 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Implement devctl(8) command 'reset', using DEV_RESET /dev/devctl2 ioctl.

Reviewed by: imp (previous version), jhb (previous version)
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19646


# 2e43efd0 06-Mar-2019 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Drop "All rights reserved" from my copyright statements.

Reviewed by: rgrimes
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19485


# 6dce7e99 19-May-2017 Maxim Konovalov <maxim@FreeBSD.org>

o Missed flag restored.

PR: 219395
Submitted by: Tiwei Bie


# e05ec081 29-Aug-2016 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

Implement 'devctl clear driver' to undo a previous 'devctl set driver'.

Add a new 'clear driver' command for devctl along with the accompanying
ioctl and devctl_clear_driver() library routine to reset a device to
use a wildcard devclass instead of a fixed devclass. This can be used
to undo a previous 'set driver' command. After the device's name has
been reset to permit wildcard names, it is reprobed so that it can
attach to newly-available (to it) device drivers.

MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications


# 88eb5c50 27-Apr-2016 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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


# a907c691 27-Apr-2016 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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


# 0fd00e0c 02-Feb-2016 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

- 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


# 8947c298 15-Jul-2015 Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@FreeBSD.org>

Fix formatting.


# 64de8019 06-Feb-2015 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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