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DEVMATCH(8)		     System Manager's Manual		     DEVMATCH(8)

NAME
     devmatch -- print information about unattached devices

SYNOPSIS
     devmatch [-a | --all] [-d | --dump] [[-h | --hints] file]
	      [[-p | --nomatch] event] [-q | --quiet] [-u | --unbound]
	      [-v | --verbose]

DESCRIPTION
     The  devmatch utility, without any arguments, prints all the kernel modules
     it has found for all the unattached, enabled devices in the system.

     -a --all		   Include all devices, not just the ones that are unat-
			   tached.

     -d --dump		   Produce a human readable  dump  of  the  linker.hints
			   file.

     -h --hints file	   Use	the  named  file instead of linker.hints guessed
			   from the current module load path.

     -p --nomatch event    Parse and use a standard NOMATCH event  from  devd(8)
			   for matching instead of searching the device tree.

     -q --quiet 	   Suppress some error messages and simply return a non-
			   zero  exit code.  This is helpful to avoid an endless
			   list of warnings during bootup if no hints are avail-
			   able.

     -u --unbound	   Attempt to produce a list of those drivers  with  PNP
			   info whose driver tables with that PNP info cannot be
			   found.

     -v --verbose	   Produce more verbose output.

SEE ALSO
     rc.conf(5), devinfo(8), MODULE_PNP_INFO(9)

HISTORY
     devmatch first appeared in FreeBSD 12.0.

AUTHORS
     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

BUGS
     The  kernel  has hints in it, but we exclude it from the list of modules to
     suggest for unmatched devices.  We exclude it when suggesting drivers,  but
     include  it  when	looking  for unbound devices or producing a full dump of
     linker.hints.  This can be confusing.

     Some modules are hard links in /boot/kernel and will be reported twice.

     The PNP string's attributes are evaluated once per PNP entry  on  that  bus
     rather than once.

     The  term PNP is overloaded in FreeBSD.  It means, generically, the identi-
     fying data the bus provides about a device.  While this  includes	old  ISA
     PNP  identifiers,	it also includes the logical equivalent in USB, PCI, and
     others.

     Many drivers currently lack proper PNP table decorations and need to be up-
     dated.

FreeBSD ports 15.1		 August 13, 2023		     DEVMATCH(8)

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