source: final-system/multilib/udev.xml@ a1a7bae

Last change on this file since a1a7bae was a1a7bae, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r667@server (orig r665): manuel | 2005-11-08 15:10:09 -0800
Removing SBUs and DUs. Chapter final-system, round 5.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6 %general-entities;
7 %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-udev" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="udev.html"?>
12
13 <title>Udev-&udev-version;</title>
14
15 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev">
16 <primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary>
17 </indexterm>
18
19 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
20 href="../common/udev.xml"
21 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
22
23 <sect2 role="installation">
24 <title>Installation of Udev</title>
25
26 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
27 href="../common/udev.xml"
28 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
29
30<screen><userinput>make CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" LD="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
31 EXTRAS="extras/firmware extras/run_directory" udevdir=/dev</userinput></screen>
32
33 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
34 href="../common/udev.xml"
35 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
36
37 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
38 href="../common/udev.xml"
39 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='e'])"/>
40
41 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
42 href="../common/udev.xml"
43 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
44
45 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
46 href="../common/udev.xml"
47 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
48
49 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
50 href="../common/udev.xml"
51 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
52
53 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
54 href="../common/udev.xml"
55 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
56
57 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
58 href="../common/udev.xml"
59 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
60
61 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
62 href="../common/udev.xml"
63 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
64
65 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
66 href="../common/udev.xml"
67 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
68
69 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
70 href="../common/udev.xml"
71 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
72
73 </sect2>
74
75 <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content">
76 <title>Contents of Udev</title>
77
78 <segmentedlist>
79 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
80 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
81
82 <seglistitem>
83 <seg>udev, udevd, udevsend, udevstart, udevinfo, and udevtest</seg>
84 <seg>/etc/udev</seg>
85 </seglistitem>
86 </segmentedlist>
87
88 <variablelist>
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
90 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
91 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
92
93 <varlistentry id="udev">
94 <term><command>udev</command></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>Creates device nodes in <filename
97 class="directory">/dev</filename> or renames network interfaces (not
98 in LFS) in response to hotplug events</para>
99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev">
100 <primary sortas="b-udev">udev</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem></varlistentry>
103
104 <varlistentry id="udevd">
105 <term><command>udevd</command></term>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>A daemon that reorders hotplug events before submitting them to
108 <command>udev</command>,
109 thus avoiding various race conditions</para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd">
111 <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem></varlistentry>
114
115 <varlistentry id="udevsend">
116 <term><command>udevsend</command></term>
117 <listitem>
118 <para>Delivers hotplug events to <command>udevd</command></para>
119 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevsend">
120 <primary sortas="b-udevsend">udevsend</primary>
121 </indexterm>
122 </listitem></varlistentry>
123
124 <varlistentry id="udevstart">
125 <term><command>udevstart</command></term>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>Creates device nodes in <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>
128 that correspond to drivers compiled directly into the kernel; it
129 performs that task by simulating hotplug events presumably dropped by
130 the kernel before invocation of this program (e.g., because the root
131 filesystem has not been mounted) and submitting such synthetic hotplug
132 events to <command>udev</command></para>
133 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevstart">
134 <primary sortas="b-udevstart">udevstart</primary>
135 </indexterm>
136 </listitem>
137 </varlistentry>
138
139 <varlistentry id="udevinfo">
140 <term><command>udevinfo</command></term>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>Allows users to query the <command>udev</command> database for
143 information on any device currently present on the system; it also
144 provides a way to query any device in the <systemitem
145 class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> tree to help create udev
146 rules</para>
147 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevinfo">
148 <primary sortas="b-udevinfo">udevinfo</primary>
149 </indexterm>
150 </listitem>
151 </varlistentry>
152
153 <varlistentry id="udevtest">
154 <term><command>udevtest</command></term>
155 <listitem>
156 <para>Simulates a <command>udev</command> run for the given device,
157 and prints out the name of the node the real <command>udev</command>
158 would have created or (not in LFS) the name of the renamed network
159 interface</para>
160 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevtest">
161 <primary sortas="b-udevtest">udevtest</primary>
162 </indexterm>
163 </listitem>
164 </varlistentry>
165
166 <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
167 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
168 <listitem>
169 <para>Contains <command>udev</command> configuation files,
170 device permissions, and rules for device naming</para>
171 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev">
172 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary>
173 </indexterm>
174 </listitem>
175 </varlistentry>
176
177 </variablelist>
178
179 </sect2>
180
181</sect1>
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