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+What: /sys/socinfo
+Date: March 2011
+contact: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin-nonst@stericsson.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/socinfo directory contains information about the
+ System-on-Chip. It is only available if platform implements it.
+ This directory contains two kind of attributes :
+ - common attributes:
+ * machine: the name of the machine.
+ * family: the family name of the SoC
+ - SoC-specific attributes: The SoC vendor can declare attributes
+ to export some strings to user-space, like the serial-number for
+ example.
+
+Users:
+ User-space applications which needs these kind of attributes.