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1c18f6365SGreg Kroah-HartmanWhat:		/sys/class/
2*ebab9426SBjorn HelgaasDate:		February 2006
3bc5bca53SGreg Kroah-HartmanContact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
4c18f6365SGreg Kroah-HartmanDescription:
5c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		The /sys/class directory will consist of a group of
6c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		subdirectories describing individual classes of devices
7c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		in the kernel.  The individual directories will consist
8c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		of either subdirectories, or symlinks to other
9c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		directories.
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11c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		All programs that use this directory tree must be able
12c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		to handle both subdirectories or symlinks in order to
13c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman		work properly.
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15c18f6365SGreg Kroah-HartmanUsers:
16c18f6365SGreg Kroah-Hartman	udev <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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