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-.TH UDEVSTART 8 "March 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
-.SH NAME
-udevstart \- populate device directory with all nodes available in sysfs
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B udevstart
+.\" Title: udevstart
+.\" Author:
+.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.71.1
+.\" Date: August 2005
+.\" Manual: udevstart
+.\" Source: udev
+.\"
+.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"
+.HP 10
+\fBudevstart\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-.B udevstart
-walks trough the sysfs device tree and calls
-.B udev
-to create the node 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)