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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +0200 |
| commit | 85e9ca333d03fbd56b9e123c8456f0d98e20faad (patch) | |
| tree | 7bb15ada5f536950efa23ad60ea9eea60380ca1c /Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | |
| parent | a300bec952127d9a15e666b391bb35c9aecb3002 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e86841d05f371b5b9b86ce76c02aaee83352298 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hpet
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 7f27b8f840d0..9e9c348275a9 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/. |