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- Sysfs Utilities Package - Includes Libsysfs(v. 2.1.0)
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- Contents
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. How to Install
- 2.1 Caveats/Known issues
- 3. Licenses
- 4. Reporting Bugs
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- 1. Introduction
- ---------------
-
- This package's purpose is to provide a set of utilities for interfacing
- with sysfs, a virtual filesystem in Linux kernel versions 2.5+ that
- provides a tree of system devices. While a filesystem is a very useful
- interface, we've decided to provide a stable programming interface
- that will hopefully make it easier for applications to query system devices
- and their attributes.
-
- This package currently includes:
-
- - libsysfs: a library for accessing system devices.
- - systool: an application to view system device information by bus, class,
- and topology.
- - A number of example usage routines in the "test" directory.
- - A comprehensive testsuite, also shipped as part of the "test" directory. This
- testsuite can be used to test _all_ the APIs exported by Libsysfs.
- Please refer the libsysfs.txt file in the "docs" directory for
- details as to how to use the testsuite.
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- 2. How to Install
- -----------------
-
- Run the "configure" script to generate Makefiles. Use "make" to build the
- library and utilities.
-
- For a successful install, run "make install" as super-user. "make uninstall"
- will clean up all installed files.
-
-
- 3. Licenses
- -----------
-
- The commands and tests are licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL)
- Version2, June 1991. The full text of the GPL is located in this package's
- "cmd" directory:
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- sysfsutils/cmd/GPL
-
- The library is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL)
- Version 2.1, February 1999. The full text of the LGPL is located in
- this package's "lib" directory:
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- sysfsutils/lib/LGPL
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-
- 4. Reporting Bugs
- -----------------
-
- Please direct all bugs to either the linux-diag mailing list -
- linux-diag-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - or to the authors:
-
- Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
- Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
- Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
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