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-<refentry id="systemd-udevd.service">
+<refentry id="systemd-udevd.service"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd-udevd.service</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>systemd-udevd.service</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- <refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
<arg><option>--children-max=</option></arg>
<arg><option>--exec-delay=</option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--event-timeout=</option></arg>
<arg><option>--resolve-names=early|late|never</option></arg>
<arg><option>--version</option></arg>
<arg><option>--help</option></arg>
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-udevd</command> listens to kernel uevents.
- For every event, systemd-udevd executes matching instructions
- specified in udev rules. See <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>.</para>
- <para>The behavior of the running daemon can be changed with
- <command>udevadm control</command>.</para>
+ For every event, systemd-udevd executes matching instructions
+ specified in udev rules. See <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>.</para>
+
+ <para>The behavior of the daemon can be configured using
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ its command line options, environment variables, and on the kernel
+ command line, or changed dynamically with <command>udevadm
+ control</command>.
+ </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Options</title>
<para>Detach and run in the background.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--debug</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Print debug messages to stderr.</para>
+ <para>Print debug messages to standard error.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--children-max=</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Limit the number of events executed in parallel.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--exec-delay=</option></term>
<listitem>
+ <para>Delay the execution of <varname>RUN</varname>
+ instructions by the given number of seconds. This option
+ might be useful when debugging system crashes during
+ coldplug caused by loading non-working kernel
+ modules.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
- <para>Delay the execution of RUN instruction by the given
- number of seconds. This option might be useful when
- debugging system crashes during coldplug caused by loading
- non-working kernel modules.</para>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--event-timeout=</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Set the number of seconds to wait for events to finish. After
+ this time the event will be terminated. The default is 30 seconds.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--resolve-names=</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specify when systemd-udevd should resolve names of users and groups.
- When set to <option>early</option> (the default) names will be
+ When set to <option>early</option> (the default), names will be
resolved when the rules are parsed. When set to
- <option>late</option> names will be resolved for every event.
- When set to <option>never</option> names will never be resolved
+ <option>late</option>, names will be resolved for every event.
+ When set to <option>never</option>, names will never be resolved
and all devices will be owned by root.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--version</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Print version number.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Print help text.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
- <refsect1><title>Environment</title>
- <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>$UDEV_LOG=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Set the logging priority.</para>
- </listitem>
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help-text" />
</varlistentry>
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
</variablelist>
- </refsect1>
+ </refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Kernel command line</title>
<variablelist class='kernel-commandline-options'>
<term><varname>udev.log-priority=</varname></term>
<term><varname>rd.udev.log-priority=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Set the logging priority.</para>
+ <para>Set the log level.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>udev.exec-delay=</varname></term>
<term><varname>rd.udev.exec-delay=</varname></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Delay the execution of RUN instruction by the given
+ <para>Delay the execution of <varname>RUN</varname> instructions by the given
number of seconds. This option might be useful when
debugging system crashes during coldplug caused by loading
non-working kernel modules.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>udev.event-timeout=</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>rd.udev.event-timeout=</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Wait for events to finish up to the given number
+ of seconds. This option might be useful if events are
+ terminated due to kernel drivers taking too long to initialize.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>net.ifnames=</varname></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Network interfaces are renamed to give them predictable names
+ when possible. It is enabled by default; specifying 0 disables it.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1><title>Configuration file</title>
- <para>udev expects its main configuration file at <filename>/etc/udev/udev.conf</filename>.
- It consists of a set of variables allowing the user to override default udev values. All
- empty lines or lines beginning with '#' are ignored. The following variables can be
- set:</para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>udev_log</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The logging priority. Valid values are the numerical syslog priorities
- or their textual representations: <option>err</option>, <option>info</option>
- and <option>debug</option>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <!-- when adding entries here, consider also adding them
+ in kernel-command-line.xml -->
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
- <para><citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle>udevadm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
- </citerefentry></para>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udevadm</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>