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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf53b66087aa30dfbf8bf391a1dadb044c3bf4d /static/netbsd/man8/drvctl.8 | |
| parent | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man8/drvctl.8 b/static/netbsd/man8/drvctl.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..536c27ce --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man8/drvctl.8 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: drvctl.8,v 1.20 2019/08/07 19:08:10 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2004 +.\" Matthias Drochner. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd August 6, 2019 +.Dt DRVCTL 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm drvctl +.Nd tool to rescan busses and detach devices on user request +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Fl r +.Op Fl a Ar attribute +.Ar busdevice +.Op locator ... +.Nm +.Fl d +.Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl nt +.Fl l +.Op Ar device +.Nm +.Op Fl n +.Fl p +.Ar device +.Op Ar property ... +.Nm +.Fl Q +.Ar device +.Nm +.Fl R +.Ar device +.Nm +.Fl S +.Ar device +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +program works with the +.Xr drvctl 4 +pseudo-driver to allow the rescan of busses and to detach +drivers from devices. +.Pp +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width 123456 +.It Fl a +Give the interface attribute where children are to be +attached to (and which defines the interpretation of +the locator information). +This will only be needed in rare cases where the bus +has multiple attributes. +If there are multiple attributes, and one is not specified, +.Nm +will return an Invalid argument. +In such cases, the +.Fl p +option can be used to determine the available interface +attributes. +.It Fl d +Detach the device driver from the device given by the +.Ar device +argument. +.It Fl l +List the children of the device specified by the +.Ar device +argument. +If +.Ar device +is not specified, list roots of the device tree instead. +Output comes in two columns. +The first column is +.Ar device , +or +.Dq root +if +.Ar device +is not specified. +The second column is the child. +.It Fl n +Suppress first column in +.Fl l +output. +Suppress non-XML headers in +.Fl p +output. +.It Fl p +Get properties for the device specified by the +.Ar device +argument. +If +.Ar property +is specified, the value of that property is printed, otherwise +the properties are displayed as an XML property list. +The property can be given as a path of dictionary keys and numeric +array indexes separated by slashes. +.It Fl Q +Resume the ancestors of +.Ar device , +.Ar device +itself, and all of its descendants. +.It Fl R +Resume both the ancestors of +.Ar device +and +.Ar device +itself. +.It Fl r +Rescan the bus given by the +.Ar busdevice +argument. +The scan range can be restricted by an optional +.Ar locator +list. +.It Fl S +Suspend both the descendants of +.Ar device +and +.Ar device +itself. +.It Fl t +Print a tree of devices in +.Fl l +output. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Pa /dev/drvctl +.Sh EXAMPLES +To scan for IDE/SATA/eSATA disks on +.Pa atabus1 , +which need to use the +.Qq ata_hl +attribute: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# drvctl -r -a ata_hl atabus1 +.Ed +.Pp +To scan for devices on a USB hub +.Pa uhub3 , +that have not been discovered by normal methods (or were detached +with the +.Fl d +option for +.Nm ) , +need to use the +.Qq usbifif +or +.Qq usbdevif +attributes, try one or both of these: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +# drvctl -r -a usbifif uhub3 +# drvctl -r -a usbdevif uhub3 +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr proplib 3 , +.Xr drvctl 4 , +.Xr autoconf 9 +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +utility appeard in +.Nx 4.0 . +.Sh BUGS +Currently, there is no good way to get information about locator +lengths and default values (which is present at kernel configuration +time) out of a running kernel. +Thus the locator handling is less intelligent than it could be. |
