| .TH SYSTOOL 1 "October 12, 2003" "Martin Pitt" |
| .SH NAME |
| systool \- view system device information by bus, class, and topology |
| |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B systool |
| [\fIoptions \fR[\fIdevice\fR]] |
| |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| Calling |
| .B systool |
| without parameters will present all available bus types, device |
| classes, and root devices. |
| .P |
| When |
| .I device |
| is supplied, the information reqested by |
| .I options |
| is shown only for the specified device, otherwise all present devices |
| are displayed. |
| .P |
| .B systool |
| uses APIs provided by |
| .B libsysfs |
| to gather information. |
| .B systool |
| runs only on Linux systems running kernels 2.5 or later, with the sysfs |
| filesystem mounted. |
| |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-a |
| Show attributes of the requested resource |
| .TP |
| .B \-b \fIbus |
| Show information for a specific bus |
| .TP |
| .B \-c \fIclass |
| Show information for a specific class |
| .TP |
| .B \-d |
| Show only devices |
| .TP |
| .B \-h |
| Show usage |
| .TP |
| .B \-m \fImodule_name |
| Show information for a specific module |
| .TP |
| .B \-p |
| Show absolute sysfs path to the resource |
| .TP |
| .B \-v |
| Show all attributes with values |
| .TP |
| .B \-A \fIattribute |
| Show attribute value for the requested resource |
| .TP |
| .B \-D |
| Show only drivers |
| .TP |
| .B \-P |
| Show device's parent |
| |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .P |
| The web page of |
| .B libsysfs |
| at http://linux\-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html |
| |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| .B systool |
| was written by Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> and |
| Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>. |
| .P |
| This man page was contributed by Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> for |
| the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). |
