bus_probe_device(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Hiii bestie, welcome to the bus_probe_device(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — the whole name-vibe is bus_probe_device — probe drivers for a new device. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void bus_probe_device (struct device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the device to probe 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

• Automatically probe for a driver if the bus allows it. That’s the entire main-character move, and it ate. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./drivers/base/bus.c is the source spot, and these are all the linked besties:

• bus_to_subsys(9)
• bus_for_each_dev(9)
• bus_find_device(9)
• bus_for_each_drv(9)
• bus_add_device(9)
• bus_remove_device(9)
• bus_add_driver(9)
• bus_remove_driver(9)
• bus_rescan_devices(9)
• device_reprobe(9)
• bus_register(9)
• bus_unregister(9)
• subsys_dev_iter_init(9)
• subsys_dev_iter_next(9)
• subsys_dev_iter_exit(9)
• subsys_system_register(9)
• subsys_virtual_register(9)
• driver_find(9)
• bus_get_dev_root(9)

mwah 💋 the footer vibes are ./drivers/base for the source/version, dated October 2026, and this is bus_probe_device(9). Slay, byeee! 🫶