NAME¶
DEVICE_PROBE
—
probe for device existence
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/param.h>
#include
<sys/bus.h>
int
DEVICE_PROBE
(
device_t
dev);
DESCRIPTION¶
The
DEVICE_PROBE
() method should probe to see
if the device is present. It should return 0 if the device exists,
ENXIO
if it cannot be found. If some other
error happens during the probe (such as a memory allocation failure), an
appropriate error code should be returned. For cases where more than one
driver matches a device, a priority value can be returned. In this case,
success codes are values less than or equal to zero with the highest value
representing the best match. Failure codes are represented by positive values
and the regular
UNIX error codes should be used for
the purpose.
If a driver returns a success code which is less than zero, it must not assume
that it will be the same driver which is attached to the device. In
particular, it must not assume that any values stored in the softc structure
will be available for its attach method and any resources allocated during
probe must be released and re-allocated if the attach method is called. In
addition it is an absolute requirement that the probe routine have no side
effects whatsoever. The probe routine may be called more than once before the
attach routine is called.
If a success code of zero is returned, the driver can assume that it will be the
one attached, but must not hold any resources when the probe routine returns.
A driver may assume that the softc is preserved when it returns a success code
of zero.
RETURN VALUES¶
A value equal to or less than zero indicates success, greater than zero
indicates an error (errno). For values equal to or less than zero: zero
indicates highest priority, no further probing is done; for a value less than
zero, the lower the value the lower the priority, e.g. -100 indicates a lower
priority than -50.
The following values are used by convention to indicate different strengths of
matching in a probe routine. Except as noted, these are just suggested values,
and there's nothing magical about them.
- BUS_PROBE_SPECIFIC
- The device that cannot be reprobed, and that no possible other driver may
exist (typically legacy drivers who don't follow all the rules, or special
needs drivers).
- BUS_PROBE_VENDOR
- The device is supported by a vendor driver. This is for source or binary
drivers that are not yet integrated into the
FreeBSD tree. Its use in the base OS is
prohibited.
- BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT
- The device is a normal device matching some plug and play ID. This is the
normal return value for drivers to use. It is intended that nearly all of
the drivers in the tree should return this value.
- BUS_PROBE_LOW_PRIORITY
- The driver is a legacy driver, or an otherwise less desirable driver for a
given plug and play ID. The driver has special requirements like when
there are two drivers that support overlapping series of hardware devices.
In this case the one that supports the older part of the line would return
this value, while the one that supports the newer ones would return
BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT.
- BUS_PROBE_GENERIC
- The driver matches the type of device generally. This allows drivers to
match all serial ports generally, with specialized drivers matching
particular types of serial ports that need special treatment for some
reason.
- BUS_PROBE_HOOVER
- The driver matches all unclaimed devices on a bus. The
ugen(4) device is one example.
- BUS_PROBE_NOWILDCARD
- The driver expects its parent to tell it which children to manage and no
probing is really done. The device only matches if its parent bus
specifically said to use this driver.
SEE ALSO¶
device(9),
DEVICE_ATTACH(9),
DEVICE_DETACH(9),
DEVICE_IDENTIFY(9),
DEVICE_SHUTDOWN(9)
AUTHORS¶
This manual page was written by
Doug
Rabson.