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31.Dd January 15, 2017
32.Dt DEVICE_IDENTIFY 9
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm DEVICE_IDENTIFY
36.Nd identify a device, register it
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/bus.h
40.Ft void
41.Fn DEVICE_IDENTIFY "driver_t *driver" "device_t parent"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The identify function for a device is only needed for devices on buses
44that cannot identify their children independently, e.g.\& the ISA bus.
45It is used to recognize the device (usually done by accessing non-ambiguous
46registers in the hardware) and to tell the kernel about it and thus
47creating a new device instance.
48.Pp
49.Xr BUS_ADD_CHILD 9
50is used to register the device as a child of the bus.
51The device's resources (such as IRQ and I/O ports) are registered
52with the kernel by calling
53.Fn bus_set_resource
54for each resource (refer to
55.Xr bus_set_resource 9
56for more information).
57.Pp
58Since the device tree and the device driver tree are disjoint, the
59.Fn DEVICE_IDENTIFY
60routine needs to take this into account.
61If you load and unload your device driver that has the identify
62routine, the child node has the potential for adding the same node
63multiple times unless specific measure are taken to preclude that
64possibility.
65.Sh EXAMPLES
66The following pseudo-code shows an example of a function that
67probes for a piece of hardware and registers it and its resource
68(an I/O port) with the kernel.
69.Bd -literal
70void
71foo_identify(driver_t *driver, device_t parent)
72{
73	device_t child;
74
75	retrieve_device_information;
76	if (devices matches one of your supported devices &&
77	    not already in device tree) {
78		child = BUS_ADD_CHILD(parent, 0, "foo", -1);
79		bus_set_resource(child, SYS_RES_IOPORT, 0, FOO_IOADDR, 1);
80	}
81}
82.Ed
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr BUS_ADD_CHILD 9 ,
85.Xr bus_set_resource 9 ,
86.Xr device 9 ,
87.Xr device_add_child 9 ,
88.Xr DEVICE_ATTACH 9 ,
89.Xr DEVICE_DETACH 9 ,
90.Xr DEVICE_PROBE 9 ,
91.Xr DEVICE_SHUTDOWN 9
92.Sh AUTHORS
93This manual page was written by
94.An Alexander Langer Aq Mt alex@FreeBSD.org .
95