X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=00acf97c27e5405b5974a4c373b80f8113e17767;hp=f37c12a8e06b65008481afb5b2bc66220237e6a8;hb=41677cf51fb2c14aa512ecf9410e43eb35560408;hpb=98520be72f9a0167df1da3c7b1a4ca2e88c3c831 diff --git a/README b/README index f37c12a8e..00acf97c2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ Important Note: recommend to replace a distro's udev installation with the upstream version. Requirements: - - Version 2.6.15 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of + - Version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of udev. The kernel may have a requirement on udev too, see Documentation/Changes in the kernel source tree for the actual dependency. - The kernel must have sysfs, unix domain sockets and networking enabled. (unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module may work, - but it is completely silly - don't complain if anything goes wrong.) + but it does not make any sense - don't complain if anything goes wrong.) - The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, the sysfs filesystem must - be mounted at /sys. No other location is supported by udev. + be mounted at /sys. No other locations are supported by udev. Operation: @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Operation: /etc/udev/rules.d/ which make it possible to hook into the event processing to load required kernel modules and setup devices. For all devices the kernel exports a major/minor number, udev will create a - device node with the default kernel name or the one specified by a + device node with the default kernel name, or the one specified by a matching udev rule. @@ -71,22 +71,19 @@ Compile Options: Installation: - The install target intalls the udev binaries in the default locations, - All at boot time reqired binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin. + All binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin. - The default location for scripts and binaries that are called from - rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, should use + rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, may use that directory too. - - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices directory to place + - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place device nodes and symlinks in, which are copied to /dev at every boot. That way, nodes for broken subsystems or devices which can't be detected automatically by the kernel, will always be available. - - Copies of the rules files for the major distros are provided as examples - in the etc/udev directory. - - - The persistent device naming links in /dev/disk/ are required by other - software that depends on the data udev has collected from the devices + - Default udev rules and persistent device naming rules are required by other + software that depends on the data udev collects from the devices, and should be installed by default with every udev installation. Please direct any comment/question/concern to the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list at: