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authorMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>2011-04-11 01:12:52 +0000
committerMichael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>2011-04-11 05:49:39 +0000
commit57e804843b42676246f14cea149299189abb8d18 (patch)
tree4cd1d7ca389f918f78ffdacbd465dd0405635d40 /udev
parent0fbda083a2977fe1809467913cc198bbdb681041 (diff)
Docs: udev.xml: Clean up introduction to substitutions.
For one thing, they are not at all like printf conversion specifications.
Diffstat (limited to 'udev')
-rw-r--r--udev/udev.xml8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/udev/udev.xml b/udev/udev.xml
index 48980577c0..57f13e07b0 100644
--- a/udev/udev.xml
+++ b/udev/udev.xml
@@ -528,10 +528,10 @@
<para>The <option>NAME</option>, <option>SYMLINK</option>, <option>PROGRAM</option>,
<option>OWNER</option>, <option>GROUP</option>, <option>MODE</option> and <option>RUN</option>
- fields support simple printf-like string substitutions. The <option>RUN</option>
- format chars gets applied after all rules have been processed, right before the program
- is executed. It allows the use of device properties set by earlier matching
- rules. For all other fields, substitutions are applied while the individual rule is
+ fields support simple string substitutions. The <option>RUN</option>
+ substitutions are performed after all rules have been processed, right before the program
+ is executed, allowing for the use of device properties set by earlier matching
+ rules. For all other fields, substitutions are performed while the individual rule is
being processed. The available substitutions are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>