X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=34d1267430ddd56c4f0ae5780e6a355c5680a030;hb=07f1d2860e8ee393abaaead75a6ab3af0f10efbb;hp=476ee2ec6e12bf4a43cf34800a1c029b2986cd46;hpb=00ecb6745b4021a9cae6056132dc5be3cfcc26b5;p=elogind.git diff --git a/README b/README index 476ee2ec6..34d126743 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ Requirements: 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 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Operation: - 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 @@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ Operation: 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/ Please direct any comment/question to the linux-hotplug mailing list at: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org