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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-08-30 04:41:42 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-08-30 04:41:42 +0200
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write man page masters in DocBook XML
The troff man pages will still be checked into the tree but the source is DocBook XML format living in the docs/ directory now. Start with the easy ones, the main udev page is still left to rewrite. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
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+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<article>
+ <articleinfo>
+ <title>xmlto</title>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Kay</firstname>
+ <surname>Sievers</surname>
+ <email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>
+ </author>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2005</year>
+ <holder>Kay Sievers</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ </articleinfo>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>udevd, udevsend, udevcontrol</title>
+ <refentry>
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>udevd</title>
+ <date>August 2005</date>
+ <productname>udev</productname>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>udevd</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>udevd</refname><refpurpose>event managing daemon</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>udevd</command>
+ <arg><option>--daemon</option></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>udevcontrol <replaceable>command</replaceable></command>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>udevsend <replaceable>subsystem</replaceable></command>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+ <para>udevd listens to kernel uevents and passes the incoming events to
+ udev. It ensures the right event order and takes care, that events for child
+ devices are delayed until the parent has finished the device handling. </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>OPTIONS</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--daemon</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Detach and run in the background.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>log_priority=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>udevcontrol can dynamically set the log level of udevd.
+ Valid values are the numerical syslog priorities or their textual
+ representations: err, info and debug.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>stop_exec_queue</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>udevcontrol stops the execution of events from udevd.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>start_exec_queue</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>udevcontrol starts the execution of events from udevd.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>AUTHOR</title>
+ <para>Written by Kay Sievers <email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para><citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry></para>
+ </refsect1>
+ </refentry>
+ </section>
+</article>