Changeset 9a0d741

Timestamp:

05/30/2016 04:13:45 AM (7 years ago)

Author:

DJ Lucas <dj@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 7.10, 7.10-rc1, 8.0, 8.0-rc1, 8.1, 8.1-rc1, 8.1-rc2, 8.2, 8.2-rc1, 8.3, 8.3-rc1, 8.3-rc2, 8.4, 8.4-rc1, 9.0, 9.0-rc1, 9.1, 9.1-rc1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, cross-chap5, ml-11.0, multilib, nosym, old-trunk, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/git-transition, xry111/glibc-2.34, xry111/glibc-2.37, xry111/kcfg-revise, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/pip3, xry111/queue-11.3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/tester-nohack, xry111/usr-move

Children:

efd5d1f

Parents:

5bffab1

Message:

Merge udev.xml and udevd.xml files.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11083 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter07

Files:

• chapter07.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• udev.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• udevd.xml (deleted)

chapter07/chapter07.xml

@@ -10 +10 @@
   <?dbhtml filename="chapter07.html"?>
 
-  <title>System Configuration and Bootscripts</title>
+  <title>System Configuration</title>
 
   <!-- sysv -->
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="introduction.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="bootscripts.xml"/>
+
+  <!-- systemd -->
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="introductiond.xml"/>
+  <!-- common -->
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="udev.xml"/>
+
+  <!-- sysv -->
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="symlinks.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="network.xml"/>
@@ -22 +28 @@
 
   <!-- systemd -->
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="introductiond.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="networkd.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="udevd.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="symlinksd.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="clock.xml"/>

chapter07/udev.xml

@@ -6 +6 @@
 ]>
 
-<sect1 id="ch-scripts-udev" revision="sysv">
+<sect1 id="ch-scripts-udev">
   <?dbhtml filename="udev.html"?>
 
@@ -17 +17 @@
 
   <para>In <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>, we installed the Udev
-  package when eudev was built. Before we go into the details regarding how
-  this works, a brief history of previous methods of handling devices is in
-  order.</para>
+  package when <phrase revision="sysv">eudev</phrase>
+  <phrase revision="systemd">systemd</phrase> was built. Before we go into the
+  details regarding how this works, a brief history of previous methods of
+  handling devices is in order.</para>
 
   <para>Linux systems in general traditionally used a static device creation
@@ -274 +275 @@
 
     <sect3>
+      <title>Udev does not create a device</title>
+
+      <para>Further text assumes that the driver is built statically into the
+      kernel or already loaded as a module, and that you have already checked
+      that Udev doesn't create a misnamed device.</para>
+
+      <para>Udev has no information needed to create a device node if a kernel
+      driver does not export its data to
+      <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem>. This is most common
+      with third party drivers from outside the kernel tree. Create a static
+      device node in <filename>/lib/udev/devices</filename> with the
+      appropriate major/minor numbers (see the file
+      <filename>devices.txt</filename> inside the kernel documentation or the
+      documentation provided by the third party driver vendor). The static
+      device node will be copied to <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>
+      by <command>udev</command>.</para>
+
+    </sect3>
+
+    <sect3>
       <title>Device naming order changes randomly after rebooting</title>