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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
| commit | cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92 (patch) | |
| tree | 316436f77dac75335fd2c3ef5f109e71606c50d3 /Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | |
| parent | dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dto... (diff) | |
| download | linux-cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92.tar.xz linux-cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92.zip | |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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/. |