these group names with only the rootfs mounted and while no network is
available.
- - The 'udev extras' has the following dependencies:
+ - Some udev extras have external dependencies like:
libacl, libglib2, libusb, usbutils, pciutils, and gperf.
- These dependencies can be disabled with the --disable-extras configure option.
+ All these extras can be disabled with configure options.
Setup:
- At bootup, the /dev directory should get the 'devtmpfs' filesystem
- All kernel events are matched against a set of specified rules, which
possibly hook into the event processing and load required kernel
- modules to set up devices. For all devices the kernel exports a major/minor
+ modules to set up devices. For all devices, the kernel exports a major/minor
number; if needed, udev creates a device node with the default kernel
name. If specified, udev applies permissions/ownership to the device
node, creates additional symlinks pointing to the node, and executes
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/gudev/
-For more details about udev and udev rules see the udev(7) man page.
+For more details about udev and udev rules, see the udev man pages:
+ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev/
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