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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vaibhav Jain<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 10, 2011 12:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Need help in understanding sysfs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I need to undestand sysfs and make changes to it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Please provide me with some good references.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Vaibhav Jain<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>First thing to try would be your favorite search engine. If you do a search for “lwn <topic>” you’ll often be taken to a LWN article that is on topic though perhaps a bit dated. For instance, a search for “lwn sysfs” takes you to here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/54651/">http://lwn.net/Articles/54651/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Probably a good place to start. Linux is mostly good code, but the documentation that comes with the kernel sources mostly sucks, so the web is your friend in this regard.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><font face="monospace"></font></body></html>