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>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index daa791a9e85e..97ad190e13af 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ Description:
                 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>