From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 07:48:01 -0700
Subject: anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?
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On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs.  to that end, i'm
> aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet.

It's obsolete, and doesn't work on modern kernels, please never use it.

Use libudev instead if you want access to sysfs data for devices.

thanks,

greg k-h