sys_devices(5)

📦 version 6.20, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

✨ sys_devices(5) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the File Formats Manual 💖 this one is short and sweet but it's literally the blueprint of your whole machine, so let's go 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

/sys/devices/ — the device tree, but make it a filesystem 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/sys/devices/

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so this is a directory, right? and what lives inside it is a filesystem representation of the kernel device tree. which is a fancy way of saying: it's a hierarchy of device structures that exist within the kernel 👑

like, everything your kernel knows about hardware-wise? it's got a spot in this tree. nested. organized. main character energy fr fr 🌳✨

🌈 STANDARDS 🌈

Linux. that's it, that's the standard 💀

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

it's giving Linux 2.6.0 — ancient, iconic, still thriving 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil baddie comes to you from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-09-09 💖 go poke around /sys/devices/ and tell me it isn't gorgeous, i'll wait 🎀✨

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
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