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diff --git a/share/man/man5/linsysfs.5 b/share/man/man5/linsysfs.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a5865642a136 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man5/linsysfs.5 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.\" Written by Garrett Wollman +.\" This file is in the public domain. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd February 5, 2007 +.Dt LINSYSFS 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm linsysfs +.Nd Linux system file system +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Bd -literal +linsys /compat/linux/sys linsysfs rw 0 0 +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Tn Linux +system file system, or +.Nm , +emulates a subset of the +.Tn Linux +sys file system and is required for +the complete operation of some +.Tn Linux +binaries. +.Pp +The +.Nm +provides a two-level view of devices. +At the highest level, PCI devices themselves are named, according to +their bus, slot and function in the system hierarchy. +PCI storage devices are listed in the +.Pa scsi_host +class with a device symlink +to the PCI directories of the devices. +.Pp +Each device node is a directory containing some files and directories: +.Bl -tag -width ".Pa status" +.It Pa host +A place holder for storage host information. +.It Pa pci_id +A directory for the +.Pa pci_id +that contains either the device information or another directory structure +for a PCI bridge. +.El +.Pp +Each host node of scsi_host is a directory containing some files and directories: +.Bl -tag -width ".Pa proc_name" +.It Pa proc_name +The +.Tn Linux +registered driver name for these devices. +.It Pa device +A symlink to the PCI device directory. +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +The most common usage follows: +.Pp +.Dl "mount -t linsysfs linsys /compat/linux/sys" +.Pp +where +.Pa /compat/linux/sys +is a mount point. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /compat/linux/sys/devices/pci0000:00" -compact +.It Pa /compat/linux/sys +The normal mount point for +.Nm . +.It Pa /compat/linux/sys/class/scsi_host +The storage host node. +.It Pa /compat/linux/sys/devices/pci0000:00 +The PCI device hierarchy node. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr nmount 2 , +.Xr unmount 2 , +.Xr linprocfs 5 , +.Xr pseudofs 9 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 6.2 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was derived from +.Nm linprocfs +by +.An Doug Ambrisko . +This manual page was edited by +.An Doug Ambrisko , +based on the +.Xr linprocfs 5 +manual page by +.An Garrett Wollman . |