<title>udevadm</title>
<refentry>
<refentryinfo>
- <title>udevd</title>
- <date>November 2007</date>
+ <title>udevadm</title>
<productname>udev</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<option>--path</option> or <option>--name</option> to identify the specified
device. Valid queries are:
<command>name</command>, <command>symlink</command>, <command>path</command>,
- <command>env</command>, <command>all</command>.</para>
+ <command>property</command>, <command>all</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
</refsect2>
<refsect2><title>udevadm trigger <optional>options</optional></title>
- <para>Request device uevents, usually used to replay events at system coldplug.</para>
+ <para>Request device events from the kernel. Usually used to replay events at system coldplug time.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--verbose</option></term>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>--retry-failed</option></term>
+ <term><option>--type=<replaceable>type</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Trigger only the events which are failed during a previous run.</para>
+ <para>Trigger a specific type of devices. Valid types are:
+ <command>devices</command>, <command>subsystems</command>, <command>failed</command>.
+ The default value is <command>devices</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--action=<replaceable>action</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Type of event to be triggered. The default value is "add".</para>
+ <para>Type of event to be triggered. The default value is <command>add</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>--socket=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>--property-match=<replaceable>property</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Pass the synthesized events to the specified socket, instead of triggering
- a global kernel event. All available event values will be send in the same format
- the kernel sends an uevent, or <option>RUN+="socket:<replaceable>path</replaceable>"</option>
- sends a message. If the first character of the specified path is an @ character,
- an abstract namespace socket is used, instead of an existing socket file.</para>
+ <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching property value. This option can be
+ specified multiple times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>--env=<replaceable>KEY</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>--sysname-match=<replaceable>name</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Pass an additional environemt key to the event. This works only with the
- --socket option.</para>
+ <para>Trigger events for devices with a matching sys device name. This option can be
+ specified multiple times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<term><option>--timeout=<replaceable>seconds</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Maximum number of seconds to wait for the event queue to become empty.
- The default value is 180 seconds.</para>
+ The default value is 180 seconds. A value of 0 will check if the queue is empty
+ and always return immediately.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--seq-start=<replaceable>seqnum</replaceable></option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Wait only for events after the given sequence number.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--seq-end=<replaceable>seqnum</replaceable></option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Wait only for events before the given sequence number.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--exit-if-exists=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Stop waiting if file exists.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Do not print any output, like the remaining queue entries when reaching the timeout.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--reload-rules</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Signal udevd to reload the rules from the config.</para>
+ <para>Signal udevd to reload the rules files.
+ The udev daemon detects changes automatically, this option is
+ usually not needed. Reloading rules does not apply any changes
+ to already existing devices.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>--env=<replaceable>KEY</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>--property=<replaceable>KEY</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Set global variable.</para>
+ <para>Set a global property for all events.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
same time.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--max-childs-running=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Set the maximum number of events, which are allowed to run at the
- same time.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem>
event timing, by comparing the timestamps of the kernel uevent and the udev event.
</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--environment</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Print the complete environment for all events. Can be used to compare the
- kernel supplied and the udev added environment values.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--kernel</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Print the udev event after the rule processing.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--property</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Also print the properties of the event.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem>
</refsect2>
<refsect2><title>udevadm test <optional>options</optional> <replaceable>devpath</replaceable></title>
- <para>Simulate a udev event run for the given device, and print out debug
- output. Unless forced to, no device node or symlink will be created.</para>
+ <para>Simulate a udev event run for the given device, and print debug output.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--action=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></term>
<para>The subsystem string.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--force</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Force the creation of a device node or symlink. Usually the test run
- prints only debug output.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem>
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