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Greg KH wrote:

>  ...sysfs exports loads of info about every device in your system, not
>    only the major:minor info.  It exports what device this major:minor
>    is assigned to, the topology of the device...

For the benefit of us schlubs looking in from the outside, could you tell
us what you mean by 'topology' ?

Thanks, from a gentoo/udev user!