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36 .Nd an abstract representation of a device
38 .Vt typedef struct device *device_t ;
40 The device object represents a piece of hardware attached to the
41 system such as an expansion card, the bus which that card is plugged
42 into, disk drives attached to the expansion card etc.
43 The system defines one device,
45 and all other devices are created dynamically during
47 Normally devices representing top-level busses in
48 the system (ISA, PCI etc.) will be attached directly to
50 and other devices will be added as children of their relevant bus.
52 The devices in a system form a tree.
56 .Xr device_get_parent 9 ) .
57 In addition, any device can have children attached to it (see
58 .Xr device_add_child 9 ,
59 .Xr device_add_child_ordered 9 ,
60 .Xr device_find_child 9 ,
61 .Xr device_get_children 9 ,
63 .Xr device_delete_child 9 ) .
65 A device which has been successfully probed and attached to the
66 system will also have a driver (see
67 .Xr device_get_driver 9
71 .Xr device_get_devclass 9
74 Various other attributes of the device include a unit number (see
75 .Xr device_get_unit 9 ) ,
76 verbose description (normally supplied by the driver, see
79 .Xr device_get_desc 9 ) ,
80 a set of bus-specific variables (see
81 .Xr device_get_ivars 9 )
82 and a set of driver-specific variables (see
83 .Xr device_get_softc 9 ) .
85 Devices can be in one of several states:
86 .Bl -tag -width DS_NOTPRESENT
88 the device has not been probed for existence or the probe failed
90 the device probe succeeded but not yet attached
92 the device has been successfully attached
94 the device is currently open
97 The current state of the device can be determined by calling
98 .Xr device_get_state 9 .
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