pcie_port_bus_probe(9)

💅 pcie_port_bus_probe(9) 💅

Okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — today's main character is pcie_port_bus_probe ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pcie_port_bus_probe — probe driver for given PCI Express port service 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int pcie_port_bus_probe (struct device *dev );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the PCI Express port service device you're probing against 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the tea: if a PCI Express port service driver is registered with pcie_port_service_register, this function gets called by the driver core whenever a match is found between the driver and a port service device. That's the whole vibe — no cap. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv.c
• release_pcie_device(9)
• pcie_port_enable_irq_vec(9)
• pcie_init_service_irqs(9)
• get_port_device_capability(9)
• pcie_device_init(9)
• pcie_port_device_register(9)
• pcie_port_device_suspend(9)
• pcie_port_device_resume(9)
• pcie_port_device_runtime_suspend(9)
• pcie_port_device_runtime_resume(9)
• pcie_port_find_device(9)
• pcie_port_device_remove(9)
• pcie_port_bus_remove(9)
• pcie_port_service_register(9)
• pcie_port_service_unregister(9)

Signed off from ./drivers/pci/pcie, October 2026 edition — catch you in the next probe, bestie 🧚💜