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-<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*- Mode: nxml; nxml-child-indent: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-->
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/xhtml/docbook.xsl"?>
 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
   <refmeta>
     <refentrytitle>systemd-udevd.service</refentrytitle>
     <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
-    <refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
   </refmeta>
 
   <refnamediv>
 
   <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>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><option>--event-timeout=</option></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Wait for the event to finish up to the given
-          number of seconds. After this time the event will
-          be terminated. Default is 30.</para>
+          <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>
 
     </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>
-      </varlistentry>
-    </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
   <refsect1><title>Kernel command line</title>
     <variablelist class='kernel-commandline-options'>
       <para>Parameters starting with "rd." will be read when
         <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>
         <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 a timeout in large configurations.</para>
+          terminated due to kernel drivers taking too long to initialize.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
       <varlistentry>
          in kernel-command-line.xml -->
  </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>
- </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>