X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fudev.xml;h=e253a0677a95c4a7a7e9b5aea9adbf305bfcf2d7;hb=08cbc57e87b19277568c6f7d038c460d9063775f;hp=34b1e6fd608d0183b66b84af793ebf57c47ce48a;hpb=72c6cf8fa586a08b56a1b5d7ed6d7c7272dff3f4;p=elogind.git diff --git a/man/udev.xml b/man/udev.xml index 34b1e6fd6..e253a0677 100644 --- a/man/udev.xml +++ b/man/udev.xml @@ -54,28 +54,7 @@ sources is provided by the library libudev. - Configuration - udev configuration files are placed in /etc/udev - and /usr/lib/udev. All empty lines or lines beginning with - '#' are ignored. - - Configuration file - udev expects its main configuration file at /etc/udev/udev.conf. - It consists of a set of variables allowing the user to override default udev values. - The following variables can be set: - - - udev_log - - The logging priority. Valid values are the numerical syslog priorities - or their textual representations: , - and . - - - - - - Rules files + Rules files The udev rules are read from the files located in the system rules directory /usr/lib/udev/rules.d, the volatile runtime directory /run/udev/rules.d @@ -94,9 +73,10 @@ extensions are ignored. Every line in the rules file contains at least one key-value pair. + Except for empty lines or lines beginning with '#', which are ignored. There are two kinds of keys: match and assignment. - If all match keys are matching against its value, the rule gets applied and the - assignment keys get the specified value assigned. + If all match keys match against their values, the rule gets applied and the + assignment keys get the specified values assigned. A matching rule may rename a network interface, add symlinks pointing to the device node, or run a specified program as part of @@ -394,8 +374,8 @@ - Add a program to the list of programs to be executed for a specific - device, depending on type: + Add a program to the list of programs to be executed after processing all the + rules for a specific event, depending on type: program @@ -714,7 +694,6 @@ -