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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[a001133] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-udev" role="wrap">
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[9dfc02f] | 7 | <title>Udev-&udev-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="udev.html"?>
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| 9 |
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[a001133] | 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev"><primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary></indexterm>
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[9dfc02f] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[32324418] | 13 | <para>The Udev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device nodes.</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>5.2 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 19 | </segmentedlist>
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[9dfc02f] | 20 |
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[ef13657] | 21 | <segmentedlist>
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| 22 | <segtitle>Udev installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Coreutils, Make</seg></seglistitem>
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| 24 | </segmentedlist>
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| 25 |
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[a001133] | 26 | </sect2>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[9dfc02f] | 29 | <title>Installation of Udev</title>
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| 30 |
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[ef13657] | 31 | <para>Compile Udev:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 32 |
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| 33 | <screen><userinput>make udevdir=/dev</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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[15afe874] | 35 | <variablelist>
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| 36 | <varlistentry>
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| 37 | <term><parameter>udevdir=/dev</parameter></term>
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[ef13657] | 38 | <listitem><para>This tells <command>udev</command> in which directory
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| 39 | devices nodes are to be created.</para></listitem>
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[15afe874] | 40 | </varlistentry>
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| 41 | </variablelist>
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| 42 |
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[0cb7f8b] | 43 | <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
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| 44 |
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[ef13657] | 45 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 46 |
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| 47 | <screen><userinput>make udevdir=/dev install</userinput></screen>
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| 48 |
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[18da154] | 49 | <para>Udev's configuration is far from ideal by default, so we install our own
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| 50 | configuration files here:</para>
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| 51 |
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[0141195] | 52 | <screen><userinput>cp ../udev-config-2.permissions /etc/udev/permissions.d/00-lfs.permissions
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[18da154] | 53 | cp ../udev-config-1.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/00-lfs.rules</userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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[9dfc02f] | 55 | </sect2>
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| 56 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 57 | <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content"><title>Contents of Udev</title>
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[9dfc02f] | 58 |
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[32324418] | 59 | <segmentedlist>
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| 60 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 61 | <seglistitem><seg>udev, udevd, udevsend, udevstart, udevinfo, udevtest</seg></seglistitem>
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| 62 | </segmentedlist>
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| 63 |
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[3ed279f] | 64 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 65 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[32324418] | 66 |
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| 67 | <varlistentry id="udev">
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| 68 | <term><command>udev</command></term>
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[3ed279f] | 69 | <listitem>
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[32324418] | 70 | <para>is used to create device nodes in <filename
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[ef13657] | 71 | class="directory">/dev</filename> or to rename network interfaces (not
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| 72 | in LFS) in response to hotplug events.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 73 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev"><primary sortas="b-udev">udev</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 74 | </listitem></varlistentry>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <varlistentry id="udevd">
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| 77 | <term><command>udevd</command></term>
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[3ed279f] | 78 | <listitem>
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[32324418] | 79 | <para>is a daemon that reorders hotplug events before submitting them to
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| 80 | <command>udev</command>,
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| 81 | thus avoiding various race conditions.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 82 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd"><primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 83 | </listitem></varlistentry>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <varlistentry id="udevsend">
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| 86 | <term><command>udevsend</command></term>
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[3ed279f] | 87 | <listitem>
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[32324418] | 88 | <para>is used to deliver hotplug events to <command>udevd</command>.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 89 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevsend"><primary sortas="b-udevsend">udevsend</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 90 | </listitem></varlistentry>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <varlistentry id="udevstart">
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| 93 | <term><command>udevstart</command></term>
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[3ed279f] | 94 | <listitem>
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[32324418] | 95 | <para>is used to create device nodes in <filename
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| 96 | class="directory">/dev</filename> that correspond to drivers compiled directly
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| 97 | into the kernel. It performs that task by simulating hotplug events presumably
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| 98 | dropped by the kernel before invocation of this program (e.g. because the root
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| 99 | filesystem has not been mounted) and submitting such synthetic hotplug events
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| 100 | to <command>udev</command>.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 101 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevstart"><primary sortas="b-udevstart">udevstart</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 102 | </listitem>
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| 103 | </varlistentry>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | <varlistentry id="udevinfo">
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| 106 | <term><command>udevinfo</command></term>
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[3ed279f] | 107 | <listitem>
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[32324418] | 108 | <para>allows users to query the <command>udev</command> database for
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| 109 | information on any device currently present on the system. It also
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[ef13657] | 110 | provides a way to query any device in the <systemitem
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| 111 | class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> tree to help creating udev
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[32324418] | 112 | rules.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 113 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevinfo"><primary sortas="b-udevinfo">udevinfo</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 114 | </listitem></varlistentry>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <varlistentry id="udevtest">
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| 117 | <term><command>udevtest</command></term>
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[3ed279f] | 118 | <listitem>
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[32324418] | 119 | <para>simulates a <command>udev</command> run for the given device,
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| 120 | and prints out the name of the node the real <command>udev</command> would
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| 121 | have created, or (not in LFS) the name of the renamed network interface.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 122 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevtest"><primary sortas="b-udevtest">udevtest</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 123 | </listitem></varlistentry>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | <varlistentry id="etc-dev-d">
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| 126 | <term><filename class="directory">/etc/dev.d</filename></term>
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[3ed279f] | 127 | <listitem>
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[ef13657] | 128 | <para>directory contains user-written handlers for device
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[32324418] | 129 | creation hotplug events.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 130 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-dev-d"><primary sortas="e-etc-dev-d">/etc/dev.d</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 131 | </listitem></varlistentry>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
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| 134 | <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
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[3ed279f] | 135 | <listitem>
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[32324418] | 136 | <para>directory contains <command>udev</command> configuation files,
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| 137 | device permissions and rules for device naming.</para>
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[3ed279f] | 138 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev"><primary sortas="e-etc-udev">/etc/udev</primary></indexterm>
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[32324418] | 139 | </listitem></varlistentry>
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| 140 | </variablelist>
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| 141 | </sect2>
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[9dfc02f] | 142 |
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| 143 | </sect1>
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[ef13657] | 144 |
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