From 63e6e9dde28a8e8967308a9dfb807edea3810aab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Tran Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 19:30:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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> --- Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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. -- 2.47.3