udevd: clarify worker exit status

[elogind.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 04e722f3d623fbdb411117c58d58a91fcacac5d6..4520f3dbe30918377a4a55dcd0dc7eebbc773adc 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -41,19 +41,19 @@ Requirements:
     unusable because the kernel may create too many processes in parallel
     so that the system runs out-of-memory.
 
-  - The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, the sysfs filesystem must
+  - The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, and the sysfs filesystem must
     be mounted at /sys. No other locations are supported by a standard
     udev installation.
 
   - The system must have the following group names resolvable at udev startup:
-      disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
-    Especially in LDAP setups, it is required, that getgrnam() is able to resolve
-    these group names with only the rootfs mounted, and while no network is
+      disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, and kmem.
+    Especially in LDAP setups, it is required that getgrnam() be able to resolve
+    these group names with only the rootfs mounted and while no network is
     available.
 
-  - To build all 'udev extras', libacl, libglib2, libusb, usbutils, pciutils,
-    gperf are needed. These dependencies can be disabled with the
-    --disable-extras configure option.
+  - The 'udev extras' has the following dependencies:
+      libacl, libglib2, libusb, usbutils, pciutils, and gperf.
+    These dependencies can be disabled with the --disable-extras configure option.
 
 Setup:
   - At bootup, the /dev directory should get the 'devtmpfs' filesystem
@@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ Setup:
 
   - The udev daemon should be started to handle device events sent by the kernel.
     During bootup, the kernel can be asked to send events for all already existing
-    devices, to apply the configuration to these devices. This is usually done by:
+    devices so that they too can be configured by udev. This is usually done by:
       /sbin/udevadm trigger --type=subsystems
       /sbin/udevadm trigger --type=devices
 
-  - Restarting the daemon does never apply any rules to existing devices.
+  - Restarting the daemon never applies any rules to existing devices.
 
   - New/changed rule files are picked up automatically; there is no daemon
     restart or signal needed.
 
 Operation:
-  - Udev creates/removes device nodes in /dev, based on events the kernel
-    sends out on device creation/removal.
+  - Based on events the kernel sends out on device creation/removal, udev
+    creates/removes device nodes in the /dev directory.
 
   - All kernel events are matched against a set of specified rules, which
     possibly hook into the event processing and load required kernel
-    modules to setup 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 +90,7 @@ 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(7) man page.
 
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   linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org