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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-06-05 15:55:29 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-06-05 15:55:29 +0200
commitc07669bd663d780e4957691e488798aa0178e76b (patch)
treed820e2e62ca315aedb05ba5fa12fec006ad0720b /udev.8.in
parentc2401132bf72cbda6555f1ef4403851c14faeba5 (diff)
udev: handle all events - not only class and block devices
Handle all events with rules. If udev is expected to handle hotplug.d/ the exernal helper must be called. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
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diff --git a/udev.8.in b/udev.8.in
index 79c4a83d16..e4c1c11af2 100644
--- a/udev.8.in
+++ b/udev.8.in
@@ -306,11 +306,9 @@ following the '[' is a '!', any characters not enclosed are matched.
.P
After device node creation, removal, or network device renaming,
.B udev
-executes the programs located in the directory tree under
-.IR /etc/dev.d/ .
-The name of a program must have the suffix
-.I .dev
-to be recognized.
+executes the programs specified by the
+.B RUN
+key.
.br
In addition to the kernel provided hotplug environment variables,
.B UDEV_LOG
@@ -319,15 +317,7 @@ is set and contains the numerical priority value, if udev is configured to use
Executed programs may want to follow that setting.
.B DEVNAME
is exported to make the name of the created node, or the name the network
-device is renamed to, available to the executed program. The programs in every
-directory are sorted in lexical order, while the directories are searched in
-the following order:
-.sp
-.nf
-/etc/dev.d/$(DEVNAME)/*.dev
-/etc/dev.d/$(SUBSYSTEM)/*.dev
-/etc/dev.d/default/*.dev
-.fi
+device is renamed to, available to the executed programs.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
.P
The following variables are read from the environment:
@@ -353,20 +343,10 @@ Overrides the log priority specified in the config file.
.TP
.B UDEV_RUN
If set to "0", it disables the execution of programs added by rules.
-.TP
-.B UDEV_NO_DEVD
-The default behavior of
-.B udev
-is to execute programs in the
-.I /etc/dev.d/
-directory after device handling. If set,
-.B udev
-will skip this step.
.SH "FILES"
.nf
/sbin/udev udev program
/etc/udev/* udev config files
-/etc/dev.d/* programs invoked by udev
.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR udevinfo (8),