Changeset a4495da for chapter07/udev.xml

Timestamp:

04/17/2005 11:03:59 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Jim Gifford <jim@…>

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Text updates from Matt

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multi-arch/BOOK@4993 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter07/udev.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter07/udev.xml

@@ -31 +31 @@
 resides entirely in memory and does not take up any disk space).
 Device nodes do not require much disk space, so the memory that is
-used in negligable.</para>
+used is negligible.</para>
 
 <sect2>
@@ -153 +153 @@
 <title>Handling Hotpluggable/Dynamic Devices</title>
 
-<para>When you plug in a device, such a Universal Serial Bus (USB) MP3 player, the kernel
+<para>When you plug in a device, such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) MP3 player, the kernel
 recognizes that the device is now connected and generates a hotplug
 event. If the driver is already loaded (either because it was compiled
@@ -160 +160 @@
 be called upon to create the relevant device node(s) according to the
 <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> data available in
-<filename class="directory">/sys</filename>.  If the driver for the
-just plugged in device is available as a module but currently unloaded,
-then attaching the device to the system will only cause the kernel's
-bus driver to generate a hotplug event that notifies userspace of the
-new device connection and it not being attached to a driver. In
-effect, nothing happens and the device itself is not usable
-yet.</para>
-
-<para>If building a system that has a lot of drivers compiled as
-modules rather than directly built into the kernel, using the
-<command>S05modules</command> may not be practical. The Hotplug
-package (see <ulink url="http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/"/>) can
-be beneficial in these cases. When the Hotplug package is installed,
-it will respond to the aforementioned kernel's bus driver hotplug
-events. The Hotplug package will load the appropriate module and make
-this device available by creating the device node(s) for it.</para>
+<filename class="directory">/sys</filename>.</para>
+
+<para>If the driver for the just plugged in device is available as a module but
+currently unloaded, the Hotplug package will load the appropriate module
+and make this device available by creating the device node(s) for it.</para>
 </sect2>