diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 788ce7cca..8bb18a45e 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log. +June 26, 2004 [matt]: Added descriptions for udev package +contents (Alexander Patrakov) + June 24, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.7.0 and updated the Net-tools GCC 3.4 patch. diff --git a/chapter05/udev.xml b/chapter05/udev.xml index 390b7c928..97df2e791 100644 --- a/chapter05/udev.xml +++ b/chapter05/udev.xml @@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ tools -<!-- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/udev.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/> - --> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> diff --git a/chapter06/udev.xml b/chapter06/udev.xml index 5e2416077..0f1ae802e 100644 --- a/chapter06/udev.xml +++ b/chapter06/udev.xml @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev"><primary sortas="a-Udev">Udev</primary></indexterm> <sect2 role="package"><title/> +<para>The Udev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device nodes.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> @@ -46,8 +47,87 @@ cp ../udev-config-1.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/00-lfs.rules</userinput></screen> <sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content"><title>Contents of Udev -Who knows? + + +Installed programs +udev, udevd, udevsend, udevstart, udevinfo, udevtest + + +Short descriptions + + +udev +udev +is used to create device nodes in /dev or to rename network interfaces (not in LFS) +in response to hotplug events. + + + +udevd + udevd +is a daemon that reorders hotplug events before submitting them to +udev, +thus avoiding various race conditions. + + + +udevsend + udevsend +is used to deliver hotplug events to udevd. + + + +udevstart + udevstart +is used to create device nodes in /dev that correspond to drivers compiled directly +into the kernel. It performs that task by simulating hotplug events presumably +dropped by the kernel before invocation of this program (e.g. because the root +filesystem has not been mounted) and submitting such synthetic hotplug events +to udev. + + + + +udevinfo + udevinfo +allows users to query the udev database for +information on any device currently present on the system. It also +provides a way to query any device in the sysfs tree to help creating udev +rules. + + + +udevtest + udevtest +simulates a udev run for the given device, +and prints out the name of the node the real udev would +have created, or (not in LFS) the name of the renamed network interface. + + + +/etc/dev.d + /etc/dev.d +directory is supposed to contain user-written handlers for device +creation hotplug events. + + + +/etc/udev + /etc/udev +directory contains udev configuation files, +device permissions and rules for device naming. + + - diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent index b5efbda05..5b4ec0581 100644 --- a/general.ent +++ b/general.ent @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - - + +