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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2024-07-25 04:22:48 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2024-07-25 04:22:48 +0000
commit22ea1ec051c15659944bf3922c33ec4025d010ea (patch)
tree743971933a416dde78e710c929b0ddfb98725e13 /share
parent195a96f0b303345818e09ad1d79dc80122804de8 (diff)
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newbus: introduce DEVICE_UNIT_ANY
Right now we pass a bare -1 for situations where any unit number will do. Instead, introduce a DEVICE_UNIT_ANY to use instead of the bare constant. Update documentation and examples where -1 is currently used, though additional doc updates may be needed. Sponsored by: Netflix
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/DEVICE_IDENTIFY.92
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/devclass.97
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/DEVICE_IDENTIFY.9 b/share/man/man9/DEVICE_IDENTIFY.9
index 4892e66eb214..d75c1a91ce4a 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/DEVICE_IDENTIFY.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/DEVICE_IDENTIFY.9
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ foo_identify(driver_t *driver, device_t parent)
retrieve_device_information;
if (devices matches one of your supported devices &&
not already in device tree) {
- child = BUS_ADD_CHILD(parent, 0, "foo", -1);
+ child = BUS_ADD_CHILD(parent, 0, "foo", DEVICE_UNIT_ANY);
bus_set_resource(child, SYS_RES_IOPORT, 0, FOO_IOADDR, 1);
}
}
diff --git a/share/man/man9/devclass.9 b/share/man/man9/devclass.9
index d3c83133ae17..cbf81f3b0fa3 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/devclass.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/devclass.9
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ Each
has a name and there cannot be two devclasses with the same name.
This ensures that unique unit numbers are allocated to device
instances.
+All instances with the same name are treated as being the same.
.Pp
-Beware that this means
-.Vt devclass
-must be the same for different bus attachments of the same device driver.
+When no specific unit number is needed,
+.Vt DEVICE_UNIT_ANY
+is used.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr devclass_add_driver 9 ,
.Xr devclass_delete_driver 9 ,