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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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 -D mode=release \
72 -D dev-kvm-mode=0660 \
73 -D link-udev-shared=false \
74 -D logind=false \
75 -D vconsole=false</userinput></screen>
76
77 <variablelist>
78 <title>The meaning of the meson options:</title>
79
80 <varlistentry>
81 <term><parameter>--buildtype=release</parameter></term>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>This switch overrides the default buildtype
84 (<quote>debug</quote>), which produces unoptimized
85 binaries.</para>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
88
89 <varlistentry>
90 <term><parameter>-D mode=release</parameter></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>Disable some features considered experimental by upstream.
93 </para>
94 </listitem>
95 </varlistentry>
96
97 <varlistentry>
98 <term><parameter>-D dev-kvm-mode=0660</parameter></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>The default udev rule would allow all users to access
101 <filename class='devicefile'>/dev/kvm</filename>. The editors
102 consider it dangerous. This option overrides it.</para>
103 </listitem>
104 </varlistentry>
105
106 <varlistentry>
107 <term><parameter>-D link-udev-shared=false</parameter></term>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>This option prevents udev from linking to the internal
110 systemd shared library,
111 <systemitem class='library'>libsystemd-shared</systemitem>.
112 This library is designed to be shared by many Systemd components
113 and it's too overkill for a udev-only installation.</para>
114 </listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116
117 <varlistentry>
118 <term><parameter>-D logind=false -D vconsole=false</parameter></term>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>These options prevent the generation of several udev rule
121 files belonging to the other Systemd components that we won't
122 install.</para>
123 </listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125 </variablelist>
126
127 <para>Get the list of the shipped udev helpers and save it into an
128 environment variable (exporting it is not strictly necessary, but it makes
129 building as a regular user or using a package manager easier):</para>
130
131 <screen><userinput remap="make">export udev_helpers=$(grep "'name' :" ../src/udev/meson.build | \
132 awk '{print $3}' | tr -d ",'" | grep -v 'udevadm')</userinput></screen>
133
134 <para>Only build the components needed for udev:</para>
135
136 <screen><userinput remap="make">ninja udevadm systemd-hwdb \
137 $(ninja -n | grep -Eo '(src/(lib)?udev|rules.d|hwdb.d)/[^ ]*') \
138 $(realpath libudev.so --relative-to .) \
139 $udev_helpers</userinput></screen>
140
141 <para>Install the package:</para>
142
143 <screen><userinput remap="install">install -vm755 -d {/usr/lib,/etc}/udev/{hwdb.d,rules.d,network}
144install -vm755 -d /usr/{lib,share}/pkgconfig
145install -vm755 udevadm /usr/bin/
146install -vm755 systemd-hwdb /usr/bin/udev-hwdb
147ln -svfn ../bin/udevadm /usr/sbin/udevd
148cp -av libudev.so{,*[0-9]} /usr/lib/
149install -vm644 ../src/libudev/libudev.h /usr/include/
150install -vm644 src/libudev/*.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
151install -vm644 src/udev/*.pc /usr/share/pkgconfig/
152install -vm644 ../src/udev/udev.conf /etc/udev/
153install -vm644 rules.d/* ../rules.d/README /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
154install -vm644 $(find ../rules.d/*.rules \
155 -not -name '*power-switch*') /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/
156install -vm644 hwdb.d/* ../hwdb.d/{*.hwdb,README} /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/
157install -vm755 $udev_helpers /usr/lib/udev
158install -vm644 ../network/99-default.link /usr/lib/udev/network</userinput></screen>
159
160 <para>Install some custom rules and support files useful in an LFS
161 environment:</para>
162
163<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xvf ../../&udev-lfs-version;.tar.xz
164make -f &udev-lfs-version;/Makefile.lfs install</userinput></screen>
165
166 <para>Install the man pages:</para>
167
168 <!-- Please make sure systemd man pages tarball has a common leading
169 component in the path. -->
170<screen><userinput remap="install">tar -xf ../../systemd-man-pages-&systemd-man-version;.tar.xz \
171 --no-same-owner --strip-components=1 \
172 -C /usr/share/man --wildcards '*/udev*' '*/libudev*' \
173 '*/systemd.link.5' \
174 '*/systemd-'{hwdb,udevd.service}.8
175
176sed 's|systemd/network|udev/network|' \
177 /usr/share/man/man5/systemd.link.5 \
178 > /usr/share/man/man5/udev.link.5
179
180sed 's/systemd\(\\\?-\)/udev\1/' /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-hwdb.8 \
181 > /usr/share/man/man8/udev-hwdb.8
182
183sed 's|lib.*udevd|sbin/udevd|' \
184 /usr/share/man/man8/systemd-udevd.service.8 \
185 > /usr/share/man/man8/udevd.8
186
187rm /usr/share/man/man*/systemd*</userinput></screen>
188
189 <para>Finally, unset the <envar>udev_helpers</envar> variable:</para>
190
191 <!-- remap="make" seems confusing but we don't have sth. like
192 remap="clean". -->
193 <screen><userinput remap="install">unset udev_helpers</userinput></screen>
194
195 </sect2>
196
197 <sect2 id="conf-udev" role="configuration">
198 <title>Configuring Udev</title>
199
200 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
201 <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
202 <secondary>configuring</secondary>
203 </indexterm>
204
205 <indexterm zone="conf-udev">
206 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev/hwdb.bin">/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</primary>
207 </indexterm>
208
209 <para>Information about hardware devices is maintained in the
210 <filename class="directory">/etc/udev/hwdb.d</filename> and
211 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d</filename> directories.
212 <application>Udev</application> needs that information to be compiled
213 into a binary database <filename>/etc/udev/hwdb.bin</filename>. Create the
214 initial database:</para>
215
216<screen><userinput>udev-hwdb update</userinput></screen>
217
218 <para>This command needs to be run each time the hardware information is
219 updated.</para>
220
221 </sect2>
222
223 <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content">
224 <title>Contents of Udev</title>
225
226 <segmentedlist>
227 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
228 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
229 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
230
231 <seglistitem>
232 <seg>udevadm, udevd (symlink to udevadm), and udev-hwdb</seg>
233
234 <seg>libudev.so</seg>
235
236 <seg>/etc/udev and /usr/lib/udev</seg>
237 </seglistitem>
238 </segmentedlist>
239
240 <variablelist>
241 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
242 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
243 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
244 <varlistentry id="udevadm" revision="sysv">
245 <term><command>udevadm</command></term>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>Generic udev administration tool: controls the udevd daemon,
248 provides info from the Udev database, monitors uevents, waits for
249 uevents to finish, tests Udev configuration, and triggers uevents
250 for a given device</para>
251 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevadm">
252 <primary sortas="b-udevadm">udevadm</primary>
253 </indexterm>
254 </listitem>
255 </varlistentry>
256
257 <varlistentry id="udevd">
258 <term><command>udevd</command></term>
259 <listitem>
260 <para>A daemon that listens for uevents on the netlink socket,
261 creates devices and runs the configured external programs in
262 response to these uevents</para>
263 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd">
264 <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary>
265 </indexterm>
266 </listitem>
267 </varlistentry>
268
269 <varlistentry id="udev-hwdb">
270 <term><command>udev-hwdb</command></term>
271 <listitem>
272 <para>Updates or queries the hardware database.</para>
273 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev-hwdb">
274 <primary sortas="b-udev-hwdb">udev-hwdb</primary>
275 </indexterm>
276 </listitem>
277 </varlistentry>
278
279 <varlistentry id="libudev">
280 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libudev</filename></term>
281 <listitem>
282 <para>A library interface to udev device information</para>
283 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev libudev">
284 <primary sortas="c-libudev">libudev</primary>
285 </indexterm>
286 </listitem>
287 </varlistentry>
288
289 <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
290 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
291 <listitem>
292 <para>Contains Udev configuration files,
293 device permissions, and rules for device naming</para>
294 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev">
295 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary>
296 </indexterm>
297 </listitem>
298 </varlistentry>
299
300 </variablelist>
301
302 </sect2>
303
304</sect1>
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