Changeset ef13657 for chapter06/udev.xml


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08/08/2004 02:11:09 AM (20 years ago)
Author:
Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>
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Completed global edits for upcoming 6.0 release

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    1919</segmentedlist>
    2020
     21<segmentedlist>
     22<segtitle>Udev installation depends on</segtitle>
     23<seglistitem><seg>Coreutils, Make</seg></seglistitem>
     24</segmentedlist>
     25
    2126</sect2>
    2227
     
    2429<title>Installation of Udev</title>
    2530
    26 <para>First compile Udev:</para>
     31<para>Compile Udev:</para>
    2732
    2833<screen><userinput>make udevdir=/dev</userinput></screen>
     
    3136<varlistentry>
    3237<term><parameter>udevdir=/dev</parameter></term>
    33 <listitem><para>This tells <command>udev</command> which directory it is to
    34 create device nodes in.</para></listitem>
     38<listitem><para>This tells <command>udev</command> in which directory
     39devices nodes are to be created.</para></listitem>
    3540</varlistentry>
    3641</variablelist>
    3742
    38 <para>Install it:</para>
     43<para>Install the package:</para>
    3944
    4045<screen><userinput>make udevdir=/dev install</userinput></screen>
     
    4752
    4853</sect2>
    49 
    5054
    5155<sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content"><title>Contents of Udev</title>
     
    6064<varlistentry id="udev">
    6165<term><command>udev</command></term>
    62 <listitem><indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev"><primary
    63 sortas="b-udev">udev</primary></indexterm>
     66<listitem><indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev"><primary sortas="b-udev">udev</primary></indexterm>
    6467<para>is used to create device nodes in <filename
    65 class="directory">/dev</filename> or to rename network interfaces (not in LFS)
    66 in response to hotplug events.</para>
     68class="directory">/dev</filename> or to rename network interfaces (not
     69in LFS) in response to hotplug events.</para>
    6770</listitem></varlistentry>
    6871
    6972<varlistentry id="udevd">
    7073<term><command>udevd</command></term>
    71 <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd"><primary
    72 sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary></indexterm>
     74<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd"><primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary></indexterm>
    7375<para>is a daemon that reorders hotplug events before submitting them to
    7476<command>udev</command>,
     
    7880<varlistentry id="udevsend">
    7981<term><command>udevsend</command></term>
    80 <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevsend"><primary
    81 sortas="b-udevsend">udevsend</primary></indexterm>
     82<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevsend"><primary sortas="b-udevsend">udevsend</primary></indexterm>
    8283<para>is used to deliver hotplug events to <command>udevd</command>.</para>
    8384</listitem></varlistentry>
     
    8586<varlistentry id="udevstart">
    8687<term><command>udevstart</command></term>
    87 <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevstart"><primary
    88 sortas="b-udevstart">udevstart</primary></indexterm>
     88<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevstart"><primary sortas="b-udevstart">udevstart</primary></indexterm>
    8989<para>is used to create device nodes in <filename
    9090class="directory">/dev</filename> that correspond to drivers compiled directly
     
    9898<varlistentry id="udevinfo">
    9999<term><command>udevinfo</command></term>
    100 <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevinfo"><primary
    101 sortas="b-udevinfo">udevinfo</primary></indexterm>
     100<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevinfo"><primary sortas="b-udevinfo">udevinfo</primary></indexterm>
    102101<para>allows users to query the <command>udev</command> database for
    103102information on any device currently present on the system. It also
    104 provides a way to query any device in the sysfs tree to help creating udev
     103provides a way to query any device in the <systemitem
     104class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> tree to help creating udev
    105105rules.</para>
    106106</listitem></varlistentry>
     
    108108<varlistentry id="udevtest">
    109109<term><command>udevtest</command></term>
    110 <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevtest"><primary
    111 sortas="b-udevtest">udevtest</primary></indexterm>
     110<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevtest"><primary sortas="b-udevtest">udevtest</primary></indexterm>
    112111<para>simulates a <command>udev</command> run for the given device,
    113112and prints out the name of the node the real <command>udev</command> would
     
    117116<varlistentry id="etc-dev-d">
    118117<term><filename class="directory">/etc/dev.d</filename></term>
    119 <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-dev-d"><primary
    120 sortas="e-etc-dev-d">/etc/dev.d</primary></indexterm>
    121 <para>directory is supposed to contain user-written handlers for device
     118<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-dev-d"><primary sortas="e-etc-dev-d">/etc/dev.d</primary></indexterm>
     119<para>directory contains user-written handlers for device
    122120creation hotplug events.</para>
    123121</listitem></varlistentry>
     
    125123<varlistentry id="etc-udev">
    126124<term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
    127 <listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev"><primary
    128 sortas="e-etc-udev">/etc/udev</primary></indexterm>
     125<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev"><primary sortas="e-etc-udev">/etc/udev</primary></indexterm>
    129126<para>directory contains <command>udev</command> configuation files,
    130127device permissions and rules for device naming.</para>
     
    134131
    135132</sect1>
     133
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