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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 597f728e7b4e..07235caec22c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects. Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu> -Revised: 15 July 2010 +Revised: 16 August 2011 Original: 10 January 2003 @@ -370,3 +370,11 @@ int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, const struct driver_attribute *); +Documentation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The sysfs directory structure and the attributes in each directory define an +ABI between the kernel and user space. As for any ABI, it is important that +this ABI is stable and properly documented. All new sysfs attributes must be +documented in Documentation/ABI. See also Documentation/ABI/README for more +information. |