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authorimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2004-04-11 06:37:50 +0000
committerimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2004-04-11 06:37:50 +0000
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Move advise from DEVICE_PROBE.9 about where to probe children.
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@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ The probe method will have been called and will have indicated that
the device exists.
This routine should initialise the hardware and allocate other
system resources (such as devfs entries).
+.Pp
+Devices which implement busses should use this method to probe for
+the existence of devices attached to the bus and add them as
+children.
+If this is combined with the use of
+.Xr bus_generic_attach 9
+the child devices will be automatically probed and attached.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Zero is returned on success, otherwise an appropriate error is returned.
.Sh SEE ALSO
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