From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 20:51:55 +0000 (+0200) Subject: man: udevd - update intro X-Git-Tag: 174~462 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b130944f994846536d01813820b3db0347a90d78;p=systemd man: udevd - update intro --- diff --git a/udev/udevd.xml b/udev/udevd.xml index f6cd9864..de06a617 100644 --- a/udev/udevd.xml +++ b/udev/udevd.xml @@ -33,13 +33,16 @@ Description - udevd listens to kernel uevents and executes the instructions specified - in rules. On startup the content of the directory - /lib/udev/devices is copied to /dev. - If kernel modules specify static device nodes, these nodes are created - even wihtout a corresponding kernel device, to allow on-demand loading of kernel - modules. Matching permissions specified in udev rules are applied to these - static device nodes. The behavior of the running daemon can be changed with + udevd listens to kernel uevents. For every event, udevd executes matching + instructions specified in udev rules. See + udev7 + . + On startup the content of the directory /lib/udev/devices + is copied to /dev. If kernel modules specify static device + nodes, these nodes are created even wihtout a corresponding kernel device, to + allow on-demand loading of kernel modules. Matching permissions specified in udev + rules are applied to these static device nodes. + The behavior of the running daemon can be changed with udevadm control.