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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2008-09-30 13:43:35 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2008-09-30 13:43:35 +0200
commitf5001d2465be849306149c902a9db5b031d10428 (patch)
tree1e14b99e49269e494d41e726065461fcf6c10564 /udev/udevadm.xml
parentc97f839eed652c3e05eb71bc2ba5fbe40678e7b7 (diff)
udevadm: trigger: use libudev
Diffstat (limited to 'udev/udevadm.xml')
-rw-r--r--udev/udevadm.xml27
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/udev/udevadm.xml b/udev/udevadm.xml
index b86b33ac44..b7687d5dd1 100644
--- a/udev/udevadm.xml
+++ b/udev/udevadm.xml
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
</refsect2>
<refsect2><title>udevadm trigger <optional>options</optional></title>
- <para>Request device uevents, usually used to replay events at system coldplug.</para>
+ <para>Request device events from the kernel. Usually used to replay events at system coldplug time.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--verbose</option></term>
@@ -165,15 +165,17 @@
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>--retry-failed</option></term>
+ <term><option>--type=<replaceable>type</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Trigger only the events which are failed during a previous run.</para>
+ <para>Trigger a specific type of devices. Valid types are:
+ <command>devices</command>, <command>subsystems</command>, <command>failed</command>.
+ The default value is <command>devices</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--action=<replaceable>action</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Type of event to be triggered. The default value is "add".</para>
+ <para>Type of event to be triggered. The default value is <command>add</command>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -208,23 +210,6 @@
of the sysfs attribute is checked. This option can be specified multiple times.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--socket=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Pass the synthesized events to the specified socket, instead of triggering
- a global kernel event. All available event values will be send in the same format
- the kernel sends an uevent, or <option>RUN+="socket:<replaceable>path</replaceable>"</option>
- sends a message. If the first character of the specified path is an @ character,
- an abstract namespace socket is used, instead of an existing socket file.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>--env=<replaceable>KEY</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Pass an additional environemt key to the event. This works only with the
- --socket option.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>