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24.\" $FreeBSD$
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26.Dd October 12, 2020
27.Dt DEVMATCH 8
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm devmatch
31.Nd print information about unattached devices
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Nm
34.Op Fl adhpuv
35.Op Fl -all
36.Op Fl -dump
37.Op Fl -hints Ar file
38.Op Fl -nomatch Ar event
39.Op Fl -unbound
40.Op Fl -verbose
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44utility, without any arguments, prints all the kernel modules it has
45found for all the unattached, enabled devices in the system.
46.Bl -tag -width 20m
47.It Fl a Fl -all
48Include all devices, not just the ones that are unattached.
49.It Fl d Fl -dump
50Produce a human readable dump of the
51.Pa linker.hints
52file.
53.It Fl h Fl -hints Ar file
54Use the named
55.Ar file
56instead of
57.Pa linker.hints
58guessed from the current module load path.
59.It Fl p Fl -nomatch Ar event
60Parse and use a standard NOMATCH event from
61.Xr devd 8
62for matching instead of searching the device tree.
63.It Fl u Fl -unbound
64Attempt to produce a list of those drivers with PNP info whose driver
65tables with that PNP info can not be found.
66.It Fl v Fl -verbose
67Produce more verbose output.
68.El
69.Sh SEE ALSO
70.Xr devinfo 8 ,
71.Xr MODULE_PNP_INFO 9
72.Sh HISTORY
73.Nm
74first appeared in
75.Fx 12.0 .
76.Sh AUTHORS
77.An Warner Losh Aq Mt imp@FreeBSD.org
78.Sh BUGS
79The kernel has hints in it, but we exclude it from the list of modules
80to suggest for unmatched devices.
81We exclude it when suggesting drivers, but include it when looking for
82unbound devices or producing a full dump of
83.Pa linker.hints .
84This can be confusing.
85.Pp
86Some modules are hard links in
87.Pa /boot/kernel
88and will be reported twice.
89.Pp
90The PNP string's attributes are evaluated once per PNP entry on that
91bus rather than once.
92.Pp
93The term PNP is overloaded in FreeBSD.
94It means, generically, the identifying data the bus provides about a
95device.
96While this include old ISA PNP identifiers, it also includes the
97logical equivalent in USB, PCI, and others.
98.Pp
99Many drivers currently lack proper PNP table decorations and need to
100be updated.
101