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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The upstream udev project's set of default rules may require a most recent kernel release to work properly. This is currently version 2.6.31. Tools and rules shipped by udev are not public API and may change at any time. -Never call any private tool in /lib/udev from any external application, it might +Never call any private tool in /lib/udev from any external application; it might just go away in the next release. Access to udev information is only offered by udevadm and libudev. Tools and rules in /lib/udev, and the entire content of the /dev/.udev directory is private to udev and does change whenever needed. @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Setup: - Restarting the daemon does never apply any rules to existing devices. - - New/changed rule files are picked up automatically, there is no daemon + - New/changed rule files are picked up automatically; there is no daemon restart or signal needed. Operation: @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Operation: - All kernel events are matched against a set of specified rules, which possibly hook into the event processing and load required kernel modules to setup devices. For all devices the kernel exports a major/minor - number, if needed, udev will create a device node with the default kernel + number; if needed, udev will create a device node with the default kernel name. If specified, udev applies permissions/ownership to the device node, creates additional symlinks pointing to the node, and executes programs to handle the device. |