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306533 30-Sep-2016 jhb

MFC 305034: Implement 'devctl clear driver' to undo a previous 'set driver'.

Add a new 'clear driver' command for devctl along with the accompanying
ioctl and devctl_clear_driver() library routine to reset a device to
use a wildcard devclass instead of a fixed devclass. This can be used
to undo a previous 'set driver' command. After the device's name has
been reset to permit wildcard names, it is reprobed so that it can
attach to newly-available (to it) device drivers.

Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications

295537 11-Feb-2016 jhb

MFC 295174:
- Note that devctl(8) will appear in 10.3 first.
- Add missing devctl_set_driver entry to namelist in devlist(3).

Approved by: re (gjb)

295131 01-Feb-2016 jhb

MFC 278320,278336,278830,285621:
Add devctl(8): a utility for manipulating new-bus devices. Note that
this version does not include the 'suspend' and 'resume' commands
present in HEAD as those depend on larger changes to the suspend and
resume code in the kernel.

278320:
Add a new device control utility for new-bus devices called devctl. This
allows the user to request administrative changes to individual devices
such as attach or detaching drivers or disabling and re-enabling devices.
- Add a new /dev/devctl2 character device which uses ioctls for device
requests. The ioctls use a common 'struct devreq' which is somewhat
similar to 'struct ifreq'.
- The ioctls identify the device to operate on via a string. This
string can either by the device's name, or it can be a bus-specific
address. (For unattached devices, a bus address is the only way to
locate a device.) Bus drivers register an eventhandler to claim
unrecognized device names that the driver recognizes as a valid address.
Two buses currently support addresses: ACPI recognizes any device
in the ACPI namespace via its full path starting with "\" and
the PCI bus driver recognizes an address specification of
'pci[<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>:<func>' (identical to the PCI selector
strings supported by pciconf).
- To make it easier to cut and paste, change the PnP location string
in the PCI bus driver to output a full PCI selector string rather
than 'slot=<slot> function=<func>'.
- Add a devctl(3) interface in libdevctl which provides a wrapper around
the ioctls and is the preferred interface for other userland code.
- Add a devctl(8) program which is a simple wrapper around the requests
supported by devctl(3).
- Add a resource_unset_value() function that can be used to remove a
hint from the kernel environment. This is used to clear a
hint.<driver>.<unit>.disabled hint when re-enabling a boot-time
disabled device.

278336:
Unbreak the build (memchr is explicitly required by devctl(9) after r278320)

278830:
install the man page...

285621:
Fix formatting.

Approved by: re (marius)

278320 06-Feb-2015 jhb

Add a new device control utility for new-bus devices called devctl. This
allows the user to request administrative changes to individual devices
such as attach or detaching drivers or disabling and re-enabling devices.
- Add a new /dev/devctl2 character device which uses ioctls for device
requests. The ioctls use a common 'struct devreq' which is somewhat
similar to 'struct ifreq'.
- The ioctls identify the device to operate on via a string. This
string can either by the device's name, or it can be a bus-specific
address. (For unattached devices, a bus address is the only way to
locate a device.) Bus drivers register an eventhandler to claim
unrecognized device names that the driver recognizes as a valid address.
Two buses currently support addresses: ACPI recognizes any device
in the ACPI namespace via its full path starting with "\" and
the PCI bus driver recognizes an address specification of
'pci[<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>:<func>' (identical to the PCI selector
strings supported by pciconf).
- To make it easier to cut and paste, change the PnP location string
in the PCI bus driver to output a full PCI selector string rather
than 'slot=<slot> function=<func>'.
- Add a devctl(3) interface in libdevctl which provides a wrapper around
the ioctls and is the preferred interface for other userland code.
- Add a devctl(8) program which is a simple wrapper around the requests
supported by devctl(3).
- Add a device_is_suspended() function to check DF_SUSPENDED.
- Add a resource_unset_value() function that can be used to remove a
hint from the kernel environment. This is used to clear a
hint.<driver>.<unit>.disabled hint when re-enabling a boot-time
disabled device.

Reviewed by: imp (parts)
Requested by: imp (changing PCI location string)
Relnotes: yes