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| author | kay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2004-02-17 18:17:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-04-26 21:32:28 -0700 |
| commit | 7dae391fd66d200febfd078c055fae3dfb5cb7c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 90c18ec5f6240e8fa51e4af0e9ffaf5fa32d5f04 | |
| parent | 595251156b858956acd10e7765adb916dc890f96 (diff) | |
[PATCH] udev - udevd/udevsend man page
Here is the missing man page for udevd/udevsend.
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | udevd.8 | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | udevinfo.8 | 2 |
3 files changed, 39 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -361,6 +361,8 @@ install: install-config install-dbus-policy all fi $(INSTALL_DATA) -D udev.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udev.8 $(INSTALL_DATA) -D udevinfo.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udevinfo.8 + $(INSTALL_DATA) -D udevd.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udevd.8 + - ln -f -s ./udevd.8 $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man8/udevsend.8 - rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(hotplugdir)/$(ROOT).hotplug - rm -f $(udevdir)/.udev.tdb - ln -f -s $(sbindir)/$(SENDER) $(DESTDIR)$(hotplugdir)/$(ROOT).hotplug diff --git a/udevd.8 b/udevd.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..401e9b2ade --- /dev/null +++ b/udevd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.TH UDEVD 8 "February 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual" +.SH NAME +udevd \- udev event serializer daemon +.br +udevsend \- sends the event to udevd +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.B udevd +allows the serialization of +.BR hotplug (8) +events. The events generated by the kernel may arrive in random order +in userspace, that makes it neccessary to reorder it. +.br +.B udevd +takes care of the kernel supplied sequence number and arranges the events for +execution in the correct order. Missing sequences are delaying the +execution of the following events until a timeout of a maximum of 5 seconds +is reached. +.br +For each event a +.BR udev (8) +instance is executed in the background. All further events for the same device +are delayed until the execution is finished. This way it will never run more +than one instance for a single device. +.br +.B udevd +receives the events from +.B udevsend +which is called by +.BR hotplug (8) + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR udev (8) +.SH AUTHORS +.B udevd +was developed primarily by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, with much help +from others. diff --git a/udevinfo.8 b/udevinfo.8 index 67d034aea6..1716d17434 100644 --- a/udevinfo.8 +++ b/udevinfo.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH UDEVINFO 8 "October 2003" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual" +.TH UDEVINFO 8 "January 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual" .SH NAME udevinfo \- retrieve information from udev .SH SYNOPSIS |