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author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2008-03-15 00:05:02 +0100 |
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committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2008-03-15 00:05:02 +0100 |
commit | 65e9e8c5e8de192b2b6eea0dcb6089268eb9ad2a (patch) | |
tree | e9bd4a9397ea969ea7fe8194b85b16c61069ff29 /README | |
parent | 064360cde8f35d8ac6faf418ddfa39b9f3da4347 (diff) |
release 119
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -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: |