DEVICE_PROBE(9)
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DEVICE_PROBE -- probe for device existence
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/bus.h>
int
DEVICE_PROBE(device_t dev);
This device 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 repre-
sented 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 allo-
cated during probe must be released and re-allocated if the attach method
is called. In addition it is an absolute requirement that the probe rou-
tine 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 rou-
tine returns. A driver may assume that the softc is preserved when it
returns a success code of zero.
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 indi-
cates a lower priority than -50.
device(9), DEVICE_ATTACH(9), DEVICE_DETACH(9), DEVICE_IDENTIFY(9),
DEVICE_SHUTDOWN(9)
This man page was written by Doug Rabson.