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diff --git a/docs/RFC-dev.d b/docs/RFC-dev.d
index 4985e841be..1aca1aa393 100644
--- a/docs/RFC-dev.d
+++ b/docs/RFC-dev.d
@@ -12,16 +12,17 @@ the system due to a device being removed.
The directory tree under /etc/dev.d/ dictate which program is run first,
and when some programs will be run or not. The device naming program
calls the programs in the following order:
- /etc/dev.d/DEVNODE/*.dev
+ /etc/dev.d/DEVNAME/*.dev
/etc/dev.d/SUBSYSTEM/*.dev
/etc/dev.d/default/*.dev
The .dev extension is needed to allow automatic package managers to
deposit backup files in these directories safely.
-The DEVNODE name is the name of the /dev file that has been created.
-This value, including the /dev path, will also be exported to userspace
-in the DEVNODE environment variable.
+The DEVNAME name is the name of the /dev file that has been created, or
+for network devices, the name of the newly named network device. This
+value, including the /dev path, will also be exported to userspace in
+the DEVNAME environment variable.
The SUBSYSTEM name is the name of the sysfs subsystem that originally
generated the hotplug event that caused the device naming program to
@@ -40,8 +41,8 @@ description of this
An equivalent shell script that would do this same kind of action would
be:
DIR="/etc/dev.d"
- export DEVNODE="whatever_dev_name_udev_just_gave"
- for I in "${DIR}/$DEVNODE/"*.dev "${DIR}/$1/"*.dev "${DIR}/default/"*.dev ; do
+ export DEVNAME="whatever_dev_name_udev_just_gave"
+ for I in "${DIR}/$DEVNAME/"*.dev "${DIR}/$1/"*.dev "${DIR}/default/"*.dev ; do
if [ -f $I ]; then $I $1 ; fi
done
exit 1;