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27.Dd Feburary 15, 2008
28.Dt DRVCTL 8
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm drvctl
32.Nd tool to rescan busses and detach devices on user request
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm
35.Fl r
36.Op Fl a Ar attribute
37.Ar busdevice
38.Op locator ...
39.Nm
40.Fl d
41.Ar device
42.Nm
43.Fl l
44.Ar device
45.Nm
46.Fl p
47.Ar device
48.Nm
49.Fl Q
50.Ar device
51.Nm
52.Fl R
53.Ar device
54.Nm
55.Fl S
56.Ar device
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58The
59.Nm
60program works with the
61.Xr drvctl 4
62pseudo-driver, and allows to rescan busses and to detach
63drivers from devices.
64.Pp
65The following options are available:
66.Bl -tag -width 123456
67.It Fl a
68Give the interface attribute where children are to be
69attached to (and which defines the interpretation of
70the locator information).
71This will only be needed in rare cases where the bus
72has multiple attributes.
73.It Fl d
74Detach the device driver from the device given by the
75.Ar device
76argument.
77.It Fl l
78List the children of the device specified by the
79.Ar device
80argument.
81.It Fl p
82Get the properties for the device specified by the
83.Ar device
84argument.
85The properties are displayed as an XML property list.
86.It Fl Q
87Resume the ancestors of
88.Ar device ,
89.Ar device
90itself, and all of its descendants.
91.It Fl R
92Resume both the ancestors of
93.Ar device
94and
95.Ar device
96itself.
97.It Fl r
98Rescan the bus given by the
99.Ar busdevice
100argument.
101The scan range can be restricted by an optional
102.Ar locator
103list.
104.It Fl S
105Suspend both the descendants of
106.Ar device
107and
108.Ar device
109itself.
110.El
111.Sh FILES
112.Pa /dev/drvctl
113.Sh SEE ALSO
114.Xr proplib 3 ,
115.\" .Xr drvctl 4 ,
116.Xr autoconf 9
117.Sh BUGS
118Currently, there is no good way to get information about locator
119lengths and default values (which is present at kernel configuration
120time) out of a running kernel.
121Thus the locator handling is less intelligent as it could be.
122