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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2006-06-24 08:41:41 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2006-06-24 13:07:53 -0400
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Conflicts: fs/nfs/inode.c fs/super.c Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch 'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
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+What: /sys/devices
+Date: February 2006
+Contact: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+Description:
+ The /sys/devices tree contains a snapshot of the
+ internal state of the kernel device tree. Devices will
+ be added and removed dynamically as the machine runs,
+ and between different kernel versions, the layout of the
+ devices within this tree will change.
+
+ Please do not rely on the format of this tree because of
+ this. If a program wishes to find different things in
+ the tree, please use the /sys/class structure and rely
+ on the symlinks there to point to the proper location
+ within the /sys/devices tree of the individual devices.
+ Or rely on the uevent messages to notify programs of
+ devices being added and removed from this tree to find
+ the location of those devices.
+
+ Note that sometimes not all devices along the directory
+ chain will have emitted uevent messages, so userspace
+ programs must be able to handle such occurrences.
+
+Users:
+ udev <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>