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| author | Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com> | 2008-07-30 02:05:23 +0400 |
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| committer | Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com> | 2008-07-30 02:05:23 +0400 |
| commit | 9fec6060d9e48ed7db0dac0e16d0f0f0e615b7f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 74b41f31a08f6500ff3dfcf64ba21e2d9a8e87e5 /Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | |
| parent | fece418418f51e92dd7e67e17c5e3fe5a28d3279 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e86841d05f371b5b9b86ce76c02aaee83352298 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/cbou/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/power/Kconfig
drivers/power/Makefile
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 7f27b8f840d..9e9c348275a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ The top level sysfs directory looks like: block/ bus/ class/ +dev/ devices/ firmware/ net/ @@ -274,6 +275,11 @@ fs/ contains a directory for some filesystems. Currently each filesystem wanting to export attributes must create its own hierarchy below fs/ (see ./fuse.txt for an example). +dev/ contains two directories char/ and block/. Inside these two +directories there are symlinks named <major>:<minor>. These symlinks +point to the sysfs directory for the given device. /sys/dev provides a +quick way to lookup the sysfs interface for a device from the result of +a stat(2) operation. More information can driver-model specific features can be found in Documentation/driver-model/. |