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DRVCTL(4) Device Drivers Manual DRVCTL(4) NAME drvctl - driver control device SYNOPSIS pseudo-device drvctl DESCRIPTION The drvctl driver allows to control some autoconf(9) operations from userland through the /dev/drvctl device and the drvctl(8) command. The driver supports the following ioctl(2) operations. DRVSUSPENDDEV DRVRESUMEDEV Invoke power management functions for a named driver that has registered itself with the pmf(9) framework. The ioctl argument specifies the driver name as: struct devpmargs { char devname[16]; uint32_t flags; }; The flag DEVPM_F_SUBTREE lets the function recurse over all children of that driver. DRVLISTDEV Return a list of child devices attached to the named driver. The ioctl argument specifies the driver name as: struct devlistargs { char l_devname[16]; char (*l_childname)[16]; size_t l_children; }; The names for up to l_children child devices are copied to the l_childname array. If there is no error, the ioctl returns the total number of children. Normally you would call DRVLISTDEV once with l_children set to zero, allocate a buffer for enough 16-character strings and call DRVLISTDEV again to fill the buffer. DRVDETACHDEV Detach the named driver and all its autoconfigured children. The ioctl argument specifies the driver name as: struct devdetachargs { char devname[16]; }; DRVSCANBUS Invoke the rescan method of the named driver to locate child devices. The ioctl argument specifies the driver name as: struct devrescanargs { char busname[16]; char ifattr[16]; unsigned int numlocators; int *locators; }; Some device drivers attach children to specific interface attributes, a zero length ifattr represents that no interface attribute should be used. The rescan can also be limited to driver-specific locators. DRVCTLCOMMAND Send a command formatted as a property list. The property list includes all arguments like the driver name, the result is again a property list. Currently the only supported command is "get-properties", the property list is constructed like: const char *device = "sd0"; const char *command = "get-properties"; prop_string_t s; prop_dictionary_t c, a; c = prop_dictionary_create(); a = prop_dictionary_create(); s = prop_string_create_cstring_nocopy(command); prop_dictionary_set(c, "drvctl-command", s); prop_object_release(s); s = prop_string_create_cstring(device); prop_dictionary_set(a, "device-name", s); prop_object_release(s); prop_dictionary_set(c, "drvctl-arguments", a); prop_object_release(a); The command must be sent with prop_dictionary_sendrecv_ioctl(3). The resulting property list contains the numeric attribute drvctl-error, which corresponds to an errno value, and the dictionary drvctl-result-data. The contents of the dictionary depends on the queried driver. DRVGETEVENT Return the next queued autoconfig event formatted as a property list. The request needs to be sent with prop_dictionary_recv_ioctl(3). The resulting property list contains the string attributes event, device and parent. Currently the events "device-attach" and "device-detach" are generated by the autoconf(9) framework. If /dev/drvctl was opened with O_NONBLOCK and there is no event queued, the call returns immediately with EWOULDBLOCK, otherwise it waits for the next event. All names used in the ioctl arguments are zero-terminated strings. A driver name is the name of a driver instance with the appended unit number like sd0, atabus3, ... FILES /dev/drvctl drvctl access device SEE ALSO ioctl(2), prop_send_ioctl(3), proplib(3), devpubd(8), drvctl(8), autoconf(9) HISTORY The /dev/drvctl device appeared in NetBSD 3.0 but was only added to the GENERIC configuration in NetBSD 5.0. NetBSD 10.99 May 13, 2015 NetBSD 10.99