What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../bind Date: December 2003 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Description: Writing a device location to this file will cause the driver to attempt to bind to the device found at this location. This is useful for overriding default bindings. The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F. That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example: # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/bind (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n). What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../unbind Date: December 2003 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Description: Writing a device location to this file will cause the driver to attempt to unbind from the device found at this location. This may be useful when overriding default bindings. The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F. That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example: # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/unbind (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n). What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../new_id Date: December 2003 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Description: Writing a device ID to this file will attempt to dynamically add a new device ID to a PCI device driver. This may allow the driver to support more hardware than was included in the driver's static device ID support table at compile time. The format for the device ID is: VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM PPPP. That is Vendor ID, Device ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID, Class, Class Mask, and Private Driver Data. The Vendor ID and Device ID fields are required, the rest are optional. Upon successfully adding an ID, the driver will probe for the device and attempt to bind to it. For example: # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/new_id What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../remove_id Date: February 2009 Contact: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Description: Writing a device ID to this file will remove an ID that was dynamically added via the new_id sysfs entry. The format for the device ID is: VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM. That is Vendor ID, Device ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID, Class, and Class Mask. The Vendor ID and Device ID fields are required, the rest are optional. After successfully removing an ID, the driver will no longer support the device. This is useful to ensure auto probing won't match the driver to the device. For example: # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/remove_id What: /sys/bus/pci/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 all PCI buses in the system, and 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/.../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/.../reset Date: July 2009 Contact: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Description: Some devices allow an individual function to be reset without affecting other functions in the same device. For devices that have this support, a file named reset will be present in sysfs. Writing 1 to this file will perform reset. What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd Date: February 2008 Contact: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Description: A file named vpd in a device directory will be a binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the device. It should follow the VPD format defined in PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider that some devices may have malformatted data. If the underlying VPD has a writable section then the corresponding section of this file will be writable. What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfnN Date: March 2009 Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Description: This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it. The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the Virtual Function whose index is N (0...MaxVFs-1). What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../dep_link Date: March 2009 Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Description: This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it, and this device has vendor specific dependencies with others. The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of Physical Function this device depends on. What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../physfn Date: March 2009 Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Description: This symbolic link appears when a device is a Virtual Function. The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the Physical Function this device associates with. What: /sys/bus/pci/slots/.../module Date: June 2009 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Description: This symbolic link points to the PCI hotplug controller driver module that manages the hotplug slot. What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label Date: July 2010 Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com Description: Reading this attribute will provide the firmware given name (SMBIOS type 41 string or ACPI _DSM string) of the PCI device. The attribute will be created only if the firmware has given a name to the PCI device. ACPI _DSM string name will be given priority if the system firmware provides SMBIOS type 41 string also. Users: Userspace applications interested in knowing the firmware assigned name of the PCI device. What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../index Date: July 2010 Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com Description: Reading this attribute will provide the firmware given instance (SMBIOS type 41 device type instance) of the PCI device. The attribute will be created only if the firmware has given an instance number to the PCI device. Users: Userspace applications interested in knowing the firmware assigned device type instance of the PCI device that can help in understanding the firmware intended order of the PCI device. What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../acpi_index Date: July 2010 Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com Description: Reading this attribute will provide the firmware given instance (ACPI _DSM instance number) of the PCI device. The attribute will be created only if the firmware has given an instance number to the PCI device. ACPI _DSM instance number will be given priority if the system firmware provides SMBIOS type 41 device type instance also. Users: Userspace applications interested in knowing the firmware assigned instance number of the PCI device that can help in understanding the firmware intended order of the PCI device.