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| author | Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@gmail.com> | 2025-09-01 19:30:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2025-09-18 10:33:28 -0600 |
| commit | 63e6e9dde28a8e8967308a9dfb807edea3810aab (patch) | |
| tree | dbba6a7aeff6df5e253fc7b2771bf0bd523aa4ab /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | a1d4416f8682d3c6d0545ad8a887d2a77f170808 (diff) | |
docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
Change sysfs bus/devices and dev directory descriptions to
provide more verbose information about the specific symlink
destination the devices point to.
Signed-off-by: Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250902023039.1351270-2-alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst index db153cda0786..f1a776a7ac66 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ kernel. Each bus's directory contains two subdirectories:: drivers/ devices/ contains symlinks for each device discovered in the system -that point to the device's directory under root/. +that point to the device's directory under /sys/devices. drivers/ contains a directory for each device driver that is loaded for devices on that particular bus (this assumes that drivers do not @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ loaded system modules, for both builtin and loadable modules. 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 +point to the directories under /sys/devices for each device. /sys/dev provides a quick way to lookup the sysfs interface for a device from the result of a stat(2) operation. |