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author | Hiten Pandya <hmp@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-10-23 01:54:06 +0000 |
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committer | Hiten Pandya <hmp@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-10-23 01:54:06 +0000 |
commit | a0942a6000928264f437f48cc6499faa97ed054f (patch) | |
tree | a78f4a7f7c358488f113ecb31c82b06cc06cb38a /share/man/man9/device_add_child.9 | |
parent | cd367b32edd853c2293ca58a0316c13434a5a690 (diff) | |
download | src-a0942a6000928264f437f48cc6499faa97ed054f.tar.gz src-a0942a6000928264f437f48cc6499faa97ed054f.zip |
Mdoc Janitor:
* Fix hard sentence breaks.
* NOTE: devstat(9) requires more mdoc(7) work.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=121380
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/device_add_child.9 b/share/man/man9/device_add_child.9 index 8d0863915121..2314ca79a4b5 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/device_add_child.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/device_add_child.9 @@ -57,13 +57,15 @@ If the unit is unknown then the caller should pass and the system will choose the next available unit number. .Pp The name of the device is used to determine which drivers might be -appropriate for the device. If a name is specified then only drivers -of that name are probed. If no name is given then all drivers for the +appropriate for the device. +If a name is specified then only drivers of that name are probed. +If no name is given then all drivers for the owning bus are probed. .Pp This allows busses which can uniquely identify device instances (such as PCI) to allow each driver to check each device instance for a -match. For busses which rely on supplied probe hints where only one +match. +For busses which rely on supplied probe hints where only one driver can have a change of probing the device, the driver name should specified as the device name. .Pp @@ -73,7 +75,8 @@ unit number of should be given. When a specific unit number is desired (e.g. for wiring a particular piece of hardware to a pre-configured unit number), that unit should -be passed. If the specified unit number is already allocated, a new +be passed. +If the specified unit number is already allocated, a new unit will be allocated and a diagnostic message printed. .Pp If the devices attached to a bus must be probed in a specific order |