1SYSTOOL(1) General Commands Manual SYSTOOL(1)
2
3
4
6 systool - view system device information by bus, class, and topology
7
8
10 systool [options [device]]
11
12
14 Calling systool without parameters will present all available bus
15 types, device classes, and root devices.
16
17 When device is supplied, the information reqested by options is shown
18 only for the specified device, otherwise all present devices are dis‐
19 played.
20
21 systool uses APIs provided by libsysfs to gather information. systool
22 runs only on Linux systems running kernels 2.5 or later, with the sysfs
23 filesystem mounted.
24
25
27 -a Show attributes of the requested resource
28
29 -b bus Show information for a specific bus
30
31 -c class
32 Show information for a specific class
33
34 -d Show only devices
35
36 -h Show usage
37
38 -m module_name
39 Show information for a specific module
40
41 -p Show absolute sysfs path to the resource
42
43 -v Show all attributes with values
44
45 -A attribute
46 Show attribute value for the requested resource
47
48 -D Show only drivers
49
50 -P Show device's parent
51
52
54 The web page of libsysfs at http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsu‐
55 tils.html
56
57
59 systool was written by Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> and
60 Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>.
61
62 This man page was contributed by Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> for the
63 Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
64
65
66
67Martin Pitt October 12, 2003 SYSTOOL(1)