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docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions

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Change sysfs bus/devices and dev directory descriptions to
provide more verbose information about the specific symlink
destination the devices point to.

Signed-off-by: Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250902023039.1351270-2-alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
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Alex Tran 2025-09-01 19:30:38 -07:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ kernel. Each bus's directory contains two subdirectories::
drivers/
devices/ contains symlinks for each device discovered in the system
that point to the device's directory under root/.
that point to the device's directory under /sys/devices.
drivers/ contains a directory for each device driver that is loaded
for devices on that particular bus (this assumes that drivers do not
@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ loaded system modules, for both builtin and loadable modules.
dev/ contains two directories: char/ and block/. Inside these two
directories there are symlinks named <major>:<minor>. These symlinks
point to the sysfs directory for the given device. /sys/dev provides a
point to the directories under /sys/devices for each device. /sys/dev provides a
quick way to lookup the sysfs interface for a device from the result of
a stat(2) operation.