Section 1 · User commands

systool.1

Package: sysfsutils

SYSTOOL

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR


NAME

systool − view system device information by bus, class, and topology

SYNOPSIS

systool [options [device]]

DESCRIPTION

Calling systool without parameters will present all available bus types, device classes, and root devices.

When device is supplied, the information requested by options is shown only for the specified device, otherwise all present devices are displayed.

systool uses APIs provided by libsysfs to gather information. systool runs only on Linux systems running kernels 2.5 or later, with the sysfs filesystem mounted.

OPTIONS

−aShow attributes of the requested resource.
−b busShow information for a specific bus.

−c class

Show information for a specific class.

−dShow only devices.
−hShow usage.

−m module_name

Show information for a specific module.

−pShow absolute sysfs path to the resource.
−vShow all attributes with values.

−A attribute

Show attribute value for the requested resource.

−DShow only drivers.
−PShow device’s parent.

SEE ALSO

The web page of libsysfs at <http://linux−diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html>.

AUTHOR

systool was written by Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> and Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>.

This man page was contributed by Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).