From: Alex Tran Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 02:30:38 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descrip... X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~107^2~14 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=63e6e9dde28a8e8967308a9dfb807edea3810aab;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20250902023039.1351270-2-alex.t.tran@gmail.com> --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst index db153cda07869..f1a776a7ac66b 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 :. 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.