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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-udev" role="wrap" revision="sysv">
9 <?dbhtml filename="udev.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>udev</productname>
13 <productnumber>&systemd-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&systemd-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Udev from Systemd-&systemd-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev">
20 <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The Udev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device
27 nodes.</para>
28
29 <segmentedlist>
30 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
31 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
32
33 <seglistitem>
34 <seg>&udev-fin-sbu;</seg>
35 <seg>&udev-fin-du;</seg>
36 </seglistitem>
37 </segmentedlist>
38 </sect2>
39
40 <sect2 role="installation">
41 <title>Installation of Udev</title>
42
43 <para>Udev is part of the systemd-&systemd-version; package. Use
44 the systemd-&systemd-version;.tar.xz file as the source tarball.</para>
45
46 <para>Remove two unneeded groups,
47 <systemitem class="groupname">render</systemitem> and
48 <systemitem class="groupname">sgx</systemitem>, from the default udev
49 rules:</para>
50
51 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's/GROUP="render"/GROUP="video"/' \
52 -e 's/GROUP="sgx", //' rules.d/50-udev-default.rules.in</userinput></screen>
53
54 <para>Remove one udev rule requiring a full Systemd installation:</para>
55
56 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/systemd-sysctl/s/^/#/' -i rules.d/99-systemd.rules.in</userinput></screen>
57
58 <para>Adjust the hardcoded paths to network configuration files for the
59 standalone udev installation:</para>
60
61 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed '/NETWORK_DIRS/s/systemd/udev/' -i src/basic/path-lookup.h</userinput></screen>
62
63 <para>Prepare Udev for compilation:</para>
64
65<screen><userinput remap="configure">mkdir -p build
66cd build
67
68meson setup \
69 --prefix=/usr \
70 --buildtype=release \
71 -Dmode=release \
72 -Ddev-kvm-mode=0660 \
73 -Dlink-udev-shared=false \
74 -Dlogind=false \
75 -Dvconsole=false \
76 ..</userinput></screen>
77
78 <variablelist>
79 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
80
81 <varlistentry>
82 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
85 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
86 binaries.</para>
87 </listitem>
88 </varlistentry>
89
90 <varlistentry>
91 <term><parameter>-Dmode=release</parameter></term>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
94 </para>
95 </listitem>
96 </varlistentry>
97
98 <varlistentry>
99 <term><parameter>-Ddev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
102 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
103 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
104 </listitem>
105 </varlistentry>
106
107 <varlistentry>
108 <term><parameter>-Dlink-udev-shared=false</parameter></term>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>This option prevents udev from linking to the internal
111 systemd shared library,
112 <systemitem class='library'>libsystemd-shared</systemitem>.
113 This library is designed to be shared by many Systemd components
114 and it's too overkill for a udev-only installation.</para>
115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
117
118 <varlistentry>
119 <term><parameter>-Dlogind=false -Dvconsole=false</parameter></term>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>These options prevent the generation of several udev rule
122 files belonging to the other Systemd components that we won't
123 install.</para>
124 </listitem>
125 </varlistentry>
126 </variablelist>
127
128 <para>Only build the components needed for udev:</para>
129
130 <screen><userinput remap="make">ninja udevadm systemd-hwdb \
131 $(ninja -n | grep -Eo '(src/(lib)?udev|rules.d|hwdb.d)/[^ ]*') \
132 $(realpath libudev.so --relative-to .)</userinput></screen>
133
134 <para>Install the package:</para>
135
136 <screen><userinput remap="install">install -vm755 -d {/usr/lib,/etc}/udev/{hwdb.d,rules.d,network}
137install -vm755 -d /usr/{lib,share}/pkgconfig
138install -vm755 udevadm /usr/bin/
139install -vm755 systemd-hwdb /usr/bin/udev-hwdb
140ln -svfn ../bin/udevadm /usr/sbin/udevd
141cp -av libudev.so{,*[0-9]} /usr/lib/
142install -vm644 ../src/libudev/libudev.h /usr/include/
143install -vm644 src/libudev/*.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
144install -vm644 src/udev/*.pc /usr/share/pkgconfig/
145install -vm644 ../src/udev/udev.conf /etc/udev/
146install -vm644 rules.d/* ../rules.d/README /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
147install -vm644 $(find ../rules.d/*.rules \
148 -not -name '*power-switch*') /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
149install -vm644 hwdb.d/* ../hwdb.d/{*.hwdb,README} /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/
150install -vm755 $(find src/udev \
151 -type f -not -name '*.*') /usr/lib/udev
152install -vm644 ../network/99-default.link /usr/lib/udev/network</userinput></screen>
153
154 <para>Install some custom rules and support files useful in an LFS
155 environment:</para>
156
157<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../../&udev-lfs-version;.tar.xz
158make -f &udev-lfs-version;/Makefile.lfs install</userinput></screen>
159
160 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
161
162 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
163 component in the path. -->
164<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-man-version;.tar.xz \
165 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
166 -C /usr/share/man --wildcards '*/udev*' '*/libudev*' \
167 '*/systemd.link.5' \
168 '*/systemd-'{hwdb,udevd.service}.8
169
170sed 's|systemd/network|udev/network|' \
171 /usr/share/man/man5/systemd.link.5 \
172 > /usr/share/man/man5/udev.link.5
173
174sed 's/systemd\(\\\?-\)/udev\1/' /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-hwdb.8 \
175 > /usr/share/man/man8/udev-hwdb.8
176
177sed 's|lib.*udevd|sbin/udevd|' \
178 /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-udevd.service.8 \
179 > /usr/share/man/man8/udevd.8
180
181rm /usr/share/man/man*/systemd*</userinput></screen>
182
183 </sect2>
184
185 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
186 <!-- Multilib - 32bit -->
187 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
188 <sect2 arch="ml_32,ml_all" role="installation">
189 <title>Installation of Udev - 32bit</title>
190
191 <para>Clean previous build (while still in the build directory):</para>
192
193<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf *</userinput></screen>
194
195 <para>Prepare Udev for compilation:</para>
196
197<screen><userinput remap="configure">PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib32/pkgconfig" \
198CC="gcc -m32 -march=i686" \
199CXX="g++ -m32 -march=i686" \
200LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
201meson setup \
202 --prefix=/usr \
203 --buildtype=release \
204 -Dmode=release \
205 -Ddev-kvm-mode=0660 \
206 -Dlink-udev-shared=false \
207 ..</userinput></screen>
208
209 <para>Compile the package:</para>
210
211<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja \
212 $(grep -o -E "^build (src/libudev|src/udev)[^:]*" \
213 build.ninja | awk '{ print $2 }') \
214 $(realpath libudev.so --relative-to .)</userinput></screen>
215
216 <para>Install the package:</para>
217
218<screen><userinput remap="install">mkdir -pv /usr/lib32/pkgconfig &amp;&amp;
219cp -av libudev.so{,*[0-9]} /usr/lib32/ &amp;&amp;
220sed -e "s;/usr/lib;&amp;32;g" src/libudev/libudev.pc > /usr/lib32/pkgconfig/libudev.pc</userinput></screen>
221
222 </sect2><!-- m32 -->
223
224 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
225 <!-- Multilib - x32bit -->
226 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
227 <sect2 arch="ml_x32,ml_all" role="installation">
228 <title>Installation of Udev - x32bit</title>
229 <para>Clean previous build (while still in the build directory):</para>
230
231<screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -rf *</userinput></screen>
232
233 <para>Prepare Udev for compilation:</para>
234
235<screen><userinput remap="configure">PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/libx32/pkgconfig" \
236CC="gcc -mx32" \
237CXX="g++ -mx32" \
238CFLAGS+=" -Wno-error=shift-overflow" \
239CXXFLAGS+=" -Wno-error=shift-overflow" \
240LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
241meson setup \
242 --prefix=/usr \
243 --buildtype=release \
244 -Dmode=release \
245 -Ddev-kvm-mode=0660 \
246 -Dlink-udev-shared=false \
247 ..</userinput></screen>
248
249 <para>Compile the package:</para>
250
251<screen><userinput remap="make">ninja \
252 $(grep -o -E "^build (src/libudev|src/udev)[^:]*" \
253 build.ninja | awk '{ print $2 }') \
254 $(realpath libudev.so --relative-to .)</userinput></screen>
255
256 <para>Install the package:</para>
257
258<screen><userinput remap="install">mkdir -pv /usr/libx32/pkgconfig &amp;&amp;
259cp -av libudev.so{,*[0-9]} /usr/libx32/ &amp;&amp;
260sed -e "s;/usr/lib;&amp;x32;g" src/libudev/libudev.pc > /usr/libx32/pkgconfig/libudev.pc</userinput></screen>
261
262 </sect2><!-- mx32 -->
263
264 <sect2 id="conf-udev" role="configuration">
265 <title>Configuring Udev</title>
266
267 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
268 <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
269 <secondary>configuring</secondary>
270 </indexterm>
271
272 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
273 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/hwdb.bin">/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</primary>
274 </indexterm>
275
276 <para>Information about hardware devices is maintained in the
277 <filename class="directory">/etc/udev/hwdb.d</filename> and
278 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename> directories.
279 <application>Udev</application> needs that information to be compiled
280 into a binary database <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>. Create the
281 initial database:</para>
282
283<screen><userinput>udev-hwdb update</userinput></screen>
284
285 <para>This command needs to be run each time the hardware information is
286 updated.</para>
287
288 </sect2>
289
290 <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content">
291 <title>Contents of Udev</title>
292
293 <segmentedlist>
294 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
295 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
296 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
297
298 <seglistitem>
299 <seg>udevadm, udevd (symlink to udevadm), and udev-hwdb</seg>
300
301 <seg>libudev.so</seg>
302
303 <seg>/etc/udev and /usr/lib/udev</seg>
304 </seglistitem>
305 </segmentedlist>
306
307 <variablelist>
308 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
309 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
310 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
311 <varlistentry id="udevadm" revision="sysv">
312 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>Generic udev administration tool: controls the udevd daemon,
315 provides info from the Udev database, monitors uevents, waits for
316 uevents to finish, tests Udev configuration, and triggers uevents
317 for a given device</para>
318 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevadm">
319 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
320 </indexterm>
321 </listitem>
322 </varlistentry>
323
324 <varlistentry id="udevd">
325 <term><command>udevd</command></term>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>A daemon that listens for uevents on the netlink socket,
328 creates devices and runs the configured external programs in
329 response to these uevents</para>
330 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd">
331 <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary>
332 </indexterm>
333 </listitem>
334 </varlistentry>
335
336 <varlistentry id="udev-hwdb">
337 <term><command>udev-hwdb</command></term>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>Updates or queries the hardware database.</para>
340 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev-hwdb">
341 <primary sortas="b-udev-hwdb">udev-hwdb</primary>
342 </indexterm>
343 </listitem>
344 </varlistentry>
345
346 <varlistentry id="libudev">
347 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>A library interface to udev device information</para>
350 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev libudev">
351 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
352 </indexterm>
353 </listitem>
354 </varlistentry>
355
356 <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
357 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>Contains Udev configuration files,
360 device permissions, and rules for device naming</para>
361 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev">
362 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary>
363 </indexterm>
364 </listitem>
365 </varlistentry>
366
367 </variablelist>
368
369 </sect2>
370
371</sect1>
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