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Did not write one for net directory. See commit bc3a88431672 ("docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory") Signed-off-by: Alex Tran --- Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst index b562cfcda3d5..4b44b6af0688 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst @@ -334,8 +334,22 @@ a stat(2) operation. More information on driver-model specific features can be found in Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/. +block/ contains symlinks to all the block devices discovered on the system. +These symlinks point to directories under /sys/devices. -TODO: Finish this section. +class/ contains a directory for each device class, grouped by functional type. +Each directory in class/ contains symlinks to devices in the /sys/devices directory. + +firmware/ contains system firmware data and configuration such as firmware tables, +ACPI information, and device tree data. + +hypervisor/ contains virtualization platform information and provides an interface to +the underlying hypervisor. It is only present when running on a virtual machine. + +kernel/ contains runtime kernel parameters, configuration settings, and status. + +power/ contains power management subsystem information including +sleep states, suspend/resume capabilities, and policies. Current Interfaces -- 2.51.0