PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove

This patch adds an attribute named "remove" to a PCI device's sysfs
directory.  Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will remove the PCI
device and any children of it.

Trent Piepho wrote the original implementation and documentation.

Thanks to Vegard Nossum for testing under kmemcheck and finding locking
issues with the sysfs interface.

Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index e6ad047cb3c2..daa791a9e85e 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ Description:
                 re-discover previously removed devices.
                 Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
 
+What:           /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
+Date:           January 2009
+Contact:        Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+                Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
+                hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
+                Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
+
 What:           /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
 Date:           February 2008
 Contact:        Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>