udev(7): Point out required extension, and remove some confusion

[elogind.git] / udev / udev.xml

diff --git a/udev/udev.xml b/udev/udev.xml
index c517766f97ee78c6911c6ee018c61d305646b8b3..336b203becb3522abc0e059ba8da8410efc80684 100644 (file)
--- a/udev/udev.xml
+++ b/udev/udev.xml
@@ -75,12 +75,13 @@
       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.</para>
+      in which of these directories they live. Files in
+      <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence over files with
+      the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This can be
+      used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
 
-      <para>Rule files are required to have a unique name, duplicate file names
-      are ignored. Files in <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence
-      over files with the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This
-      can be used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
+      <para>Rule files must end in <filename>.rules</filename>, other extensions
+      are ignored.</para>
 
       <para>Every line in the rules file contains at least one key value pair.
       There are two kind of keys, match and assignment keys.
@@ -437,6 +438,13 @@
                   by an earlier event.</para>
                 </listitem>
               </varlistentry>
+              <varlistentry>
+                <term><option>cmdline</option></term>
+                <listitem>
+                  <para>Import a single property from the kernel commandline. For simple flags
+                  the value of the property will be set to '1'.</para>
+                </listitem>
+              </varlistentry>
               <varlistentry>
                 <term><option>parent</option></term>
                 <listitem>
@@ -506,6 +514,12 @@
                   writing, a change uevent will be synthesised.</para>
                 </listitem>
               </varlistentry>
+              <varlistentry>
+                <term><option>nowatch</option></term>
+                <listitem>
+                  <para>Disable the watching of a device node with inotify.</para>
+                </listitem>
+              </varlistentry>
             </variablelist>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>