sys_class(5)

💖 NAME 💖

/sys/class/ — the device classes directory, and bestie it is so much more organized than the rest of /sys, fr fr

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/sys/class/

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so picture this: /sys/class/ is this one directory that holds a single layer of subdirectories — just one, no nesting drama, no rabbit holes — and each of those subdirectories is a device class</> that's been registered on your system. Like terminals, network devices, block devices, graphics devices, sound devices, and so on. The whole squad. 👑

Inside each of those class subdirectories? Symbolic links, one for each device hanging out in that class. And here's the plot twist — those symlinks don't point at random stuff, they point at entries in the /sys/devices/ directory. So /sys/class/ is basically the cute curated lobby and /sys/devices/ is the actual building where everyone lives. iykyk 🦋

• /sys/class/net/ — oh you want the networking one specifically? See sys_class_net(5). She got her own whole page, main character energy. 💅

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🌈 STANDARDS 🌈

Linux. That's it, that's the standard. 🐧

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🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

Linux 2.6.0 — so like, ancient history in kernel years but still absolutely thriving. ⭐

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• sysfs(5)

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that's the whole page bestie, go forth and ls responsibly 🫶

sending u love from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-09-09 — mwah 💋