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authorkay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2003-12-04 19:22:53 -0800
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-04-26 21:13:06 -0700
commit83fa40fc2a9ad7790f4d1289c9e918d8e6ebe99d (patch)
treed29f137be96c04cac22f3e68184dd2ce5b0628a6 /udev.8
parent83be97ba211c4f69e7fd9f16f57ca7210a116a7d (diff)
[PATCH] man page beauty
I've never seen any project where the documentation is in sync with the code at this early stage. Nice! So here is the patch to make it extra perfect :) remove random indent to be consistent style is "shell style" s/wildcard/pattern/ mention negation char in character class
Diffstat (limited to 'udev.8')
-rw-r--r--udev.830
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/udev.8 b/udev.8
index bac35b091d..37b3b625e7 100644
--- a/udev.8
+++ b/udev.8
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ On device removal,
.B udev
queries the internal database for the name of the device file to be deleted.
.SH "CONFIGURATION"
-All udev configuration files consist of a set of lines of text. All empty
+All
+.B udev
+configuration files consist of a set of lines of text. All empty
lines, and lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored.
.P
@@ -96,11 +98,9 @@ device. If no matching configuration is found, the default kernel device name
is used.
.P
The line format is:
-.RS
.sp
.I method, key,[key,...] name
.sp
-.RE
where valid methods with corresponding keys are:
.TP
.B CALLOUT
@@ -130,22 +130,13 @@ string replacement of the kernel device name
key: \fBKERNEL_NAME\fP
.P
The methods are applied in the following order:
-.B CALLOUT
-,
-.B LABEL
-,
-.B NUMBER
-,
-.B TOPOLOGY
-,
-.B REPLACE
+.BR CALLOUT ", " LABEL ", " NUMBER ", " TOPOLOGY ", " REPLACE "."
.P
The
.B NAME
and
.B PROGRAM
-fields support simple printf-like string subtitution:
-.RS
+fields support simple printf-like string substitution:
.TP
.B %n
the "kernel number" of the device
@@ -168,7 +159,6 @@ the CALLOUT program returned string
Use the devfs style disk name for this device.
For partitions, this will result in 'part%n'
If this is not a partition, it will result in 'disk'
-.RE
.P
A sample \fIudev.rules\fP might look like this:
.sp
@@ -202,7 +192,7 @@ file.
.br
Every line lists a device name followed by owner, group and permission
mode. All values are separated by colons. The name field may contain a
-wildcard to apply the values to a whole class of devices.
+pattern to apply the values to a whole class of devices.
.br
If
.B udev
@@ -221,9 +211,7 @@ dsp1:::0666
.fi
.P
A number of different fields in the above configuration files support a simple
-form of wildcard matching. This form is based on the fnmatch(3) style, and
-supports the following fields:
-.RS
+form of shell style pattern matching. It supports the following pattern characters:
.TP
.B *
Matches zero, one, or more characters.
@@ -235,8 +223,8 @@ Matches any single character, but does not match zero characters.
Matches any single character specified within the brackets. For example, the
pattern string "tty[SR]" would match either "ttyS" or "ttyR". Ranges are also
supported within this match with the '-' character. For example, to match on
-the range of all digits, the pattern [0-9] would be used.
-.RE
+the range of all digits, the pattern [0-9] would be used. If the first character
+following the '[' is a '!' then any character not enclosed is matched.
.SH "FILES"
.nf
.ft B