linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 2/3] docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions

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Message-ID: <20250902023039.1351270-2-alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
Date: Mon,  1 Sep 2025 19:30:38 -0700
From: Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@...il.com>
To: corbet@....net
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/3] docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and  bus/devices descriptions

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@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
index c50da87f27fa..b562cfcda3d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
@@ -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.
 
-- 
2.51.0