1 .TH EDD_ID 8 "November 2005" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
3 edd_id \- udev callout to identify BIOS disk drives via EDD
6 [\fI--export\fP] \fIblockdevice\fP
9 is normally called from a udev rule, to provide udev with the edd id for
10 a BIOS disk drive. Udev can use this information to create symlinks in
11 /dev/disk/by-id and /dev/disk/by-label to the real device node.
14 opens the blockdevice node specified at the commandline and prints the
15 information chosen by the options.
17 The following commandline switches are supported to specify what edd_id
21 print all values (instead of only the id)
26 Developed by John Hull <john_hull@dell.com> and Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>.