move default rules from /etc/udev/rules.d/ to /lib/udev/rules.d/

[elogind.git] / udev.xml

diff --git a/udev.xml b/udev.xml
index 5eff452b771d9db52c45e99e2cd6516f9393f98f..c740c0d80705c22b9167f80f1fb93a9b9e148264 100644 (file)
--- a/udev.xml
+++ b/udev.xml
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
       </refsect1>
 
       <refsect1><title>CONFIGURATION</title>
-        <para>All udev configuration files are placed in <filename>/etc/udev/*</filename>.
-        Every file consists of a set of lines of text. All empty lines or lines beginning
-        with '#' will be ignored.</para>
+        <para>udev configuration files are placed in <filename>/etc/udev/</filename>
+        and <filename>/lib/udev/</filename>. All empty lines, or lines beginning with
+        '#' will be ignored.</para>
 
         <refsect2><title>Configuration file</title>
           <para>udev expects its main configuration file at <filename>/etc/udev/udev.conf</filename>.
@@ -57,16 +57,6 @@
               </listitem>
             </varlistentry>
 
-            <varlistentry>
-              <term><option>udev_rules</option></term>
-              <listitem>
-                <para>The name of the udev rules file or directory to look for files
-                with the suffix <filename>.rules</filename>. Multiple rule files are
-                read in lexical order. The default value is
-                <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d</filename>.</para>
-              </listitem>
-            </varlistentry>
-
             <varlistentry>
               <term><option>udev_log</option></term>
               <listitem>
@@ -80,8 +70,11 @@
 
         <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 configuration file. Every line in the rules file contains at least
+          default rules directory <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>,
+          the custom rules directory <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename>
+          and the temporary rules directory <filename>/dev/.udev/rules.d/</filename>.
+          All rule files are sorted and processed in lexical order, regardless
+          in which of these directories they live. 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.</para>
@@ -438,7 +431,7 @@
                     <term><option>link_priority=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
                     <listitem>
                       <para>Specify the priority of the created symlinks. Devices with higher
-                      priorities overwrite existing symlinks of other devices.</para>
+                      priorities overwrite existing symlinks of other devices. The default is 0.</para>
                     </listitem>
                   </varlistentry>
                   <varlistentry>
@@ -522,8 +515,8 @@
               <listitem>
                 <para>The value of a sysfs attribute found at the device, where
                 all keys of the rule have matched. If the matching device does not have
-                such an attribute, all devices along the chain of parents are searched
-                for a matching attribute.
+                such an attribute, follow the chain of parent devices and use the value
+                of the first attribute that matches.
                 If the attribute is a symlink, the last element of the symlink target is
                 returned as the value.</para>
               </listitem>