[PATCH] update the man page to reflect the recent changes

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kay.sievers@vrfy.org 2005-04-03 01:15:44 +02:00 committed by Greg KH
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@ -15,18 +15,23 @@ As part of the
subsystem,
.B udev
is executed if a kernel device is added or removed from the system.
On device creation,
A list of rules is used to match against specific device attributes.
.br
On device addition,
.B udev
reads the sysfs directory of the given device to collect device attributes
like label, serial number or bus device number.
These attributes may be used as keys to determine a
unique name for the device.
matches its configured rules against the available device attributes to
uniquely name the device.
.B udev
maintains a database for devices present on the system.
maintains its own database for devices present on the system. This database
can be queried for the relationship of the kernel device path and the
name of the device file.
.br
On device removal,
.B udev
queries its database for the name of the device file to be deleted.
.br
After the device node handling, a list of collected programs specific to this
device is executed.
.SH "CONFIGURATION"
All
.B udev
@ -156,18 +161,10 @@ The name of the node to be created, or the name, the network interface
should be renamed to.
.TP
.B SYMLINK
The name of a symlink targeting the node. Multiple symlinks may be
specified by separating the names by the space character.
.br
If both the name and the symlink fields are omitted or its
values are empty, the device will be ignored and no node will be created.
.br
If only the symlink field is given and the name field is omitted,
the rule will not be applied immediately, but the symlink field is added
to the symlink list of the rule which will create the node.
This makes it possible to specify additional symlinks in a possibly
separate rules file, while the device nodes are maintained by the
distribution provided rules file.
The name of a symlink targeting the node. Every matching rule can add
this value to the list of symlinks to be created along with the device node.
Multiple symlinks may be specified by separating the names by the space
character.
.TP
.B OWNER, GROUP, MODE
The permissions for the device node. Every specified value overwrites the
@ -178,10 +175,10 @@ Add a program to the list of programs to be executed for a specific device.
.TP
.B OPTIONS
.B last_rule
will be the last rule applied. No later rules will have any effect.
stops further rules application. No later rules will have any effect.
.sp
.B ignore_device
will ignore this device. No node will be created.
will ignore this device. No node will be created or program executed.
.sp
.B ignore_remove
will ignore any later remove event for this device.
@ -261,7 +258,7 @@ where device can come and go at any time is not recomended.
.B %%
The '%' character itself.
.P
The count of charcters to insert may be limited by specifying
The count of characters to insert may be limited by specifying
the format length value. For example, '%3s{file}' will only insert
the first three characters of the sysfs attribute.
.P