PCI: return error on failure to read PCI ROMs

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / Documentation / filesystems / sysfs-pci.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
index 68ef48839c0484db0dea98da2b419eb4f94b28bf..9f8740ca3f3bc514d9f5426168eb5b2273b96d42 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ that support it.  For example, a given bus might look like this:
      |   |-- class
      |   |-- config
      |   |-- device
+     |   |-- enable
      |   |-- irq
      |   |-- local_cpus
      |   |-- resource
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ files, each with their own function.
        class              PCI class (ascii, ro)
        config             PCI config space (binary, rw)
        device             PCI device (ascii, ro)
+       enable             Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw)
        irq                IRQ number (ascii, ro)
        local_cpus         nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
        resource                   PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
@@ -57,10 +59,19 @@ used to do actual device programming from userspace.  Note that some platforms
 don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return
 value from any attempted mmap.
 
+The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device 
+has been enabled.  If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is
+echoed into it, it will then return '5'.  Echoing a '0' into it will decrease
+the count.  Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation
+may not be reversed.  
+
 The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's
 ROM file, if available.  It's disabled by default, however, so applications
 should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read
-call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file.
+call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file.  Note
+that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully.
+In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
+'enable' file, documented above.
 
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