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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-08-30 04:41:42 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>2005-08-30 04:41:42 +0200
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write man page masters in DocBook XML
The troff man pages will still be checked into the tree but the source is DocBook XML format living in the docs/ directory now. Start with the easy ones, the main udev page is still left to rewrite. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
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-.TH UDEVSTART 8 "March 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
-.SH NAME
+.\" ** You probably do not want to edit this file directly **
+.\" It was generated using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets (version 1.69.0).
+.\" Instead of manually editing it, you probably should edit the DocBook XML
+.\" source for it and then use the DocBook XSL Stylesheets to regenerate it.
+.TH "UDEVSTART" "8" "August 2005" "udev" "udevstart"
+.\" disable hyphenation
+.nh
+.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
+.ad l
+.SH "NAME"
udevstart \- populate initial device directory
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B udevstart
+.SH "SYNOPSIS"
+.HP 10
+\fBudevstart\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-.B udevstart
-walks trough the sysfs device tree and calls
-.B udev
-to create the nodes for every valid device found. It can be used to fill a
-empty device directory with nodes for all devices currently available on
-the system.
+.PP
+udevstart scans the kernel exported device information available in sysfs for devices which require a device node to operate and creates the node using the specified udev rules. udevstart is used to create the initial device directory after system bootup.
+.SH "AUTHOR"
+.PP
+Written by Harald Hoyer
+<harald@redhat.com>.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR udev (8)
-.SH AUTHORS
-.B udevstart
-was developed primarily by Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>, with much help
-from others.
+.PP
+\fBudev\fR(8)