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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200 |
| commit | 10a010f6953b5a14ba2f0be40a4fce1bea220875 (patch) | |
| tree | 19aadf718c796bc7fae0a1a1c970d84d67c541d4 /Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | |
| parent | 510b37258dfd61693ca6c039865c78bd996e3718 (diff) | |
| parent | fb2e405fc1fc8b20d9c78eaa1c7fd5a297efde43 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts:
drivers/pci/dmar.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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/. |