device_enable(9)

device_enable9

Manipulate device enabled flag

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <sys/bus.h>

void

device_enable(device_t dev);

void

device_disable(device_t dev);

int

device_is_enabled(device_t dev);

Overview

Each device has an enabled flag associated with it. A device is enabled by default when it is created but may be disabled (for instance to prevent a destructive or time consuming probe attempt). To disable a device, call device_disable(), to re-enable it, call device_enable() and to test to see if a device is enabled, call device_is_enabled().

Releases

77 releases since FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE; the text changed 39 times.

  1. 3.0–3.2
  2. 3.3–3.5.1
  3. 4.0–4.3
  4. 4.4
  5. 4.5–4.11
  6. 5.0
  7. 5.1
  8. 5.2–6.3
  9. 6.4
  10. 7.0
  11. 7.1
  12. 7.2
  13. 7.3
  14. 7.4
  15. 8.0
  16. 8.1
  17. 8.2
  18. 8.3
  19. 8.4
  20. 9.0
  21. 9.1
  22. 9.2
  23. 9.3
  24. 10.0
  25. 10.1
  26. 10.2
  27. 10.3
  28. 10.4
  29. 11.0
  30. 11.1
  31. 11.2
  32. 11.3
  33. 11.4
  34. 12.0
  35. 12.1
  36. 12.2
  37. 12.3
  38. 12.4
  39. 13.0–13.2
  40. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.