[PATCH 2/4] Add documenation for new sysfs devices/soc functionallity

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Wed Aug 10 11:02:51 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:03:40PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..9156ba0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-soc
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +What:		/sys/devices/soc
> +Date:		April 2011
> +contact:	Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> +Description:
> +		The /sys/devices/soc directory contains a sub-directory for each
> +		System-on-Chip (SoC) device on a running platform. Information
> +		regarding each SoC can be obtained by reading sysfs files. This
> +		functionallity is only available if implemented by the platform.
> +		This directory contains two kinds of attributes:
> +			- Common attributes:
> +				* machine: the name of the machine (e.g. Ux500).
> +				* family: the family name of the SoC (e.g. DB8500).
> +			- SoC-specific attributes:
> +				* SoC vendor declared, such as serial and rev numbers.

Spell out these individual files with individual entries please.




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