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| author | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2015-06-18 19:15:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2015-06-18 19:18:33 +0200 |
| commit | 2ef24a16ac054bc06c3a2520e0d8e862eeea65f8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a4b305b4447f2767b81937fd0c7ce7b4869bded /man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml | |
| parent | 74b1f5276365bbdf02dacec707fb9c40509650b4 (diff) | |
man: udev_device - finish new_* man page
A description of device_id lacked. We still need to do the other
udev_device_* man pages.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml | 35 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml b/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml index fc147a879a..9c4ab7a1bf 100644 --- a/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml +++ b/man/udev_device_new_from_syspath.xml @@ -136,10 +136,37 @@ <constant>c</constant> for character devices, as well as a devnum (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>makedev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>). <function>udev_device_new_from_subsystem_sysname</function> looks up devices based - on the provided subsystem and sysname and - <function>udev_device_new_from_device_id</function> looks up devices based on the provided - device id (see - <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_device_get_subsystem</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>). + on the provided subsystem and sysname + (see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_device_get_subsystem</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> + and + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev_device_get_sysname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>) + and <function>udev_device_new_from_device_id</function> looks up devices based on the provided + device id which is a special string in one of the following four forms: + <table> + <title>Device ID strings</title> + + <tgroup cols='2'> + <colspec colname='example' /> + <colspec colname='explanation' /> + <thead><row> + <entry>Example</entry> + <entry>Explanation</entry> + </row></thead> + <tbody> + <row><entry><varname>b8:2</varname></entry> + <entry>block device major:minor</entry></row> + + <row><entry><varname>c128:1</varname></entry> + <entry>char device major:minor</entry></row> + + <row><entry><varname>n3</varname></entry> + <entry>network device ifindex</entry></row> + + <row><entry><varname>+sound:card29</varname></entry> + <entry>kernel driver core subsystem:device name</entry></row> + </tbody> + </tgroup> + </table> </para> <para><function>udev_device_new_from_environment</function> |