From 91418155ae9034f466d436c314cd136309bc557d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:52:45 +0100
Subject: rules sort order: /lib, /run, /etc

After long consideration we came to the conclusion that user
configuration in /etc should always override the (generally
computer generated) configuration in /run. User configuration
should always be what matters over anything else. Hence rearrange
the search orders accordingly. In general this should change
very little as overriding like this is seldomn done so far,
and the order between /etc and /usr stays the same.
---
 src/udev.xml | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/udev.xml')

diff --git a/src/udev.xml b/src/udev.xml
index 4de434ee51..8eb583a823 100644
--- a/src/udev.xml
+++ b/src/udev.xml
@@ -72,15 +72,15 @@
     <refsect2><title>Rules files</title>
       <para>The udev rules are read from the files located in the
       system rules directory <filename>/usr/lib/udev/rules.d</filename>,
-      the local administration directory <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d</filename>
-      and the volatile runtime directory <filename>/run/udev/rules.d</filename>.
+      the volatile runtime directory <filename>/run/udev/rules.d</filename>
+      and the local administration directory <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d</filename>.
       All rules files are collectively sorted and processed in lexical order,
       regardless of the directories in which they live. However, files with
-      identical file names replace each other. Files in <filename>/run</filename>
-      have the highest priority, files in <filename>/etc</filename> take precedence
+      identical file names replace each other. Files in <filename>/etc</filename>
+      have the highest priority, files in <filename>/run</filename> take precedence
       over files with the same name in <filename>/lib</filename>. This can be
-      used to overwrite a system rules file if needed; a symlink in
-      <filename>/etc</filename> with the same name as a rules file in
+      used to override a system-supplied rules file with a local file if needed;
+      a symlink in <filename>/etc</filename> with the same name as a rules file in
       <filename>/lib</filename>, pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename>,
       disables the rules file entirely.</para>
 
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
         <varlistentry>
           <term><option>OWNER, GROUP, MODE</option></term>
           <listitem>
-            <para>The permissions for the device node. Every specified value overwrites
+            <para>The permissions for the device node. Every specified value overrides
             the compiled-in default value.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
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