Hi Greg,
Thanks for your response.
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:58:31AM +0530, Madhu K wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> why there is no character device entry present in /sys/class? where as block
> and net device entries are present.
I see character devices there, but not the device nodes. I don't see
block device nodes there either.
If I am wrong please correct me, there is a folder called block in /sys/class. is block not containing block device nodes?
> Not only in /sys/class, for that matter why there is no character device
> entries present in /sys file system.
What do you exactly mean by "character device entries"?
like block and net why there is no char folder
> please help me to understand for what purpose char devices are kept away from /
> sys file system.
Have you read the driver model chapter in the Linux Device drivers book,
or the in-kernel sysfs documentation?
thanks,
greg k-h
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