X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=udevstart.8;h=11ac92d3137cbe931e2ab923650c7748389112ed;hp=c64400cc4fb828e3983ed884b05b5c87af771309;hb=cdb5ecb8cf77f2a831022d14b1dcdaae2432c862;hpb=c19b069189fc31ff07bf482cf77fcf25549501b4;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/udevstart.8 b/udevstart.8 index c64400cc4..11ac92d31 100644 --- a/udevstart.8 +++ b/udevstart.8 @@ -1,18 +1,24 @@ -.TH UDEVSTART 8 "March 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual" -.SH NAME +.\" ** You probably do not want to edit this file directly ** +.\" It was generated using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets (version 1.69.1). +.\" Instead of manually editing it, you probably should edit the DocBook XML +.\" source for it and then use the DocBook XSL Stylesheets to regenerate it. +.TH "UDEVSTART" "8" "August 2005" "udev" "udevstart" +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.SH "NAME" udevstart \- populate initial device directory -.SH SYNOPSIS -.B udevstart +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.HP 10 +\fBudevstart\fR .SH "DESCRIPTION" -.B udevstart -walks trough the sysfs device tree and calls -.B udev -to create the nodes for every valid device found. It can be used to fill a -empty device directory with nodes for all devices currently available on -the system. +.PP +udevstart scans the kernel exported device information available in sysfs for devices which require a device node to operate and creates the node using the specified udev rules. udevstart is used to create the initial device directory after system bootup. +.SH "AUTHOR" +.PP +Written by Harald Hoyer +. .SH "SEE ALSO" -.BR udev (8) -.SH AUTHORS -.B udevstart -was developed primarily by Harald Hoyer , with much help -from others. +.PP +\fBudev\fR(7)