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<article>
- <articleinfo>
- <title>xmlto</title>
- <author>
- <firstname>Kay</firstname>
- <surname>Sievers</surname>
- <email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>
- </author>
- <copyright>
- <year>2006</year>
- <holder>Kay Sievers</holder>
- </copyright>
- </articleinfo>
-
<section>
<title>udev</title>
<refentry>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="version"></refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refsect2><title>Rules files</title>
<para>The udev rules are read from the files located in the
<filename>/etc/udev/rules.d</filename> directory or at the location specified
- value in the configuraton file. Every line in the rules file contains at least
- one key value pair. There are two kind of keys, match and assignement keys.
+ value in the configuration file. Every line in the rules file contains at least
+ one key value pair. There are two kind of keys, match and assignment keys.
If all match keys are matching against its value, the rule gets applied and the
assign keys get the specified value assigned. A matching rule may specify the
name of the device node, add a symlink pointing to the node, or run a specified
<varlistentry>
<term><option>=</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Asign a value to a key. Keys that represent a list, are reset
+ <para>Assign a value to a key. Keys that represent a list, are reset
and only this single value is assigned.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>[]</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Matches any single character specified within the brackets.
+ <para>Matches any single character specified within the brackets. For
example, the pattern string 'tty[SR]' would match either 'ttyS' or 'ttyR'.
Ranges are also supported within this match with the '-' character.
For example, to match on the range of all digits, the pattern [0-9] would
<listitem>
<para>Import the printed result or the value of a file in environment key
format into the event environment. <option>program</option> will execute an
- external program and read its output. <option>file</option> will inport a
+ external program and read its output. <option>file</option> will import a
text file. If no option is given, udev will determine it from the executable
bit of of the file permissions.</para>
</listitem>
<option>ignore_device</option> will ignore this event completely.
<option>ignore_remove</option> will ignore any later remove event for this
device. This may be useful as a workaround for broken device drivers.
- <option>all_partitions</option> will create device nodes for all available partitions of
- a block device. This may be useful for removable media.</para>
+ <option>all_partitions</option> will create the device nodes for all available
+ partitions of a block device. This may be useful for removable media devices where
+ media changes are not detected.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>