X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=0af212de9c625c3aae3856d6d49e39098302e0f0;hb=05b9640022d25a75923cc7809409914491a5f9da;hp=b37d0d594985faff6b5e5e50310a236b356b7216;hpb=b317b96c15bc61d59f138515e71f05bbd8f7b2ff;p=elogind.git diff --git a/README b/README index b37d0d594..0af212de9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ Important Note: recommend to replace a distro's udev installation with the upstream version. Requirements: - - Version 2.6.15 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of + - Version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of udev. The kernel may have a requirement on udev too, see Documentation/Changes in the kernel source tree for the actual dependency. - The kernel must have sysfs, unix domain sockets and networking enabled. (unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module may work, - but it is completely silly - don't complain if anything goes wrong.) + but it does not make any sense - don't complain if anything goes wrong.) - The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, the sysfs filesystem must - be mounted at /sys. No other location is supported by udev. + be mounted at /sys. No other locations are supported by udev. Operation: @@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ Operation: from the kernel driver core. - All kernel events are matched against a set of specified rules in - /etc/udev/rules.d/ which make it possible to hook into the event + /lib/udev/rules.d/ which make it possible to hook into the event processing to load required kernel modules and setup devices. For all devices the kernel exports a major/minor number, udev will create a - device node with the default kernel name or the one specified by a + device node with the default kernel name, or the one specified by a matching udev rule. @@ -71,24 +71,21 @@ Compile Options: Installation: - The install target intalls the udev binaries in the default locations, - All at boot time reqired binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin. + All binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin. - The default location for scripts and binaries that are called from - rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, should use + rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, may use that directory too. - - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices directory to place + - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place device nodes and symlinks in, which are copied to /dev at every boot. That way, nodes for broken subsystems or devices which can't be detected automatically by the kernel, will always be available. - - Copies of the rules files for the major distros are provided as examples - in the etc/udev directory. - - - The persistent device naming links in /dev/disk/ are required by other - software that depends on the data udev has collected from the devices + - Default udev rules and persistent device naming rules are required by other + software that depends on the data udev collects from the devices, and should be installed by default with every udev installation. Please direct any comment/question/concern to the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list at: - linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net + linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org