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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.