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