source: final-system/multilib/udev.xml@ 9090bd7

Last change on this file since 9090bd7 was 9090bd7, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r672@server (orig r670): manuel | 2005-11-09 03:15:53 -0800
Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the system and removed udevdir=/dev.

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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='g1'])"/>
52
53 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
54 href="../common/udev.xml"
55 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='h'])"/>
56
57 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
58 href="../common/udev.xml"
59 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='i'])"/>
60
61 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
62 href="../common/udev.xml"
63 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
64
65 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
66 href="../common/udev.xml"
67 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
68
69 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
70 href="../common/udev.xml"
71 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='j'])"/>
72
73 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
74 href="../common/udev.xml"
75 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='k'])"/>
76
77 </sect2>
78
79 <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content">
80 <title>Contents of Udev</title>
81
82 <segmentedlist>
83 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
84 <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
85
86 <seglistitem>
87 <seg>udev, udevd, udevsend, udevstart, udevinfo, and udevtest</seg>
88 <seg>/etc/udev</seg>
89 </seglistitem>
90 </segmentedlist>
91
92 <variablelist>
93 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
94 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
95 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
96
97 <varlistentry id="udev">
98 <term><command>udev</command></term>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>Creates device nodes in <filename
101 class="directory">/dev</filename> or renames network interfaces (not
102 in LFS) in response to hotplug events</para>
103 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev">
104 <primary sortas="b-udev">udev</primary>
105 </indexterm>
106 </listitem></varlistentry>
107
108 <varlistentry id="udevd">
109 <term><command>udevd</command></term>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>A daemon that reorders hotplug events before submitting them to
112 <command>udev</command>,
113 thus avoiding various race conditions</para>
114 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd">
115 <primary sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary>
116 </indexterm>
117 </listitem></varlistentry>
118
119 <varlistentry id="udevsend">
120 <term><command>udevsend</command></term>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>Delivers hotplug events to <command>udevd</command></para>
123 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevsend">
124 <primary sortas="b-udevsend">udevsend</primary>
125 </indexterm>
126 </listitem></varlistentry>
127
128 <varlistentry id="udevstart">
129 <term><command>udevstart</command></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Creates device nodes in <filename class="directory">/dev</filename>
132 that correspond to drivers compiled directly into the kernel; it
133 performs that task by simulating hotplug events presumably dropped by
134 the kernel before invocation of this program (e.g., because the root
135 filesystem has not been mounted) and submitting such synthetic hotplug
136 events to <command>udev</command></para>
137 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevstart">
138 <primary sortas="b-udevstart">udevstart</primary>
139 </indexterm>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
143 <varlistentry id="udevinfo">
144 <term><command>udevinfo</command></term>
145 <listitem>
146 <para>Allows users to query the <command>udev</command> database for
147 information on any device currently present on the system; it also
148 provides a way to query any device in the <systemitem
149 class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> tree to help create udev
150 rules</para>
151 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevinfo">
152 <primary sortas="b-udevinfo">udevinfo</primary>
153 </indexterm>
154 </listitem>
155 </varlistentry>
156
157 <varlistentry id="udevtest">
158 <term><command>udevtest</command></term>
159 <listitem>
160 <para>Simulates a <command>udev</command> run for the given device,
161 and prints out the name of the node the real <command>udev</command>
162 would have created or (not in LFS) the name of the renamed network
163 interface</para>
164 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevtest">
165 <primary sortas="b-udevtest">udevtest</primary>
166 </indexterm>
167 </listitem>
168 </varlistentry>
169
170 <varlistentry id="etc-udev">
171 <term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>Contains <command>udev</command> configuation files,
174 device permissions, and rules for device naming</para>
175 <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev">
176 <primary sortas="e-/etc/udev">/etc/udev</primary>
177 </indexterm>
178 </listitem>
179 </varlistentry>
180
181 </variablelist>
182
183 </sect2>
184
185</sect1>
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