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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-21 19:38:32 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-21 19:38:32 +0000
commit3f0c882398e626cd92503b1bd964a32e89f818dc (patch)
tree73e2935fe138615f4ec2d430fb7fbf6ae8fa9a80 /chapter06/udev.xml
parentaaa3260c039e40d68545922b64199b039da6af7b (diff)
Removed the text in chapter 06.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4446 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter06/udev.xml b/chapter06/udev.xml
index 6e0456bea..5d8cf5351 100644
--- a/chapter06/udev.xml
+++ b/chapter06/udev.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
<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>
@@ -27,26 +26,16 @@
<screen><userinput>make udevdir=/dev</userinput></screen>
-<variablelist>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><parameter>udevdir=/dev</parameter></term>
-<listitem><para>This tells <command>udev</command> which directory it is to
-create device nodes in.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
-
<para>Install it:</para>
<screen><userinput>make udevdir=/dev install</userinput></screen>
-<para>Udev's configuration is far from ideal by default, so we install our own
-configuration files here:</para>
+<para>Install our configuration files:</para>
<screen><userinput>cp ../udev-config-2.permissions /etc/udev/permissions.d/25-lfs.permissions
cp ../udev-config-1.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/25-lfs.rules</userinput></screen>
-<para>Finally, we'll allow udev to create the full compliment of device
-nodes, since earlier we only created a minimal set.</para>
+<para>Create the full compliment of device nodes:</para>
<screen><userinput>/sbin/udevstart</userinput></screen>
@@ -55,86 +44,8 @@ nodes, since earlier we only created a minimal set.</para>
<sect2 id="contents-udev" role="content"><title>Contents of Udev</title>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>udev, udevd, udevsend, udevstart, udevinfo, udevtest</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
+<para>See testing</para>
-<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
-
-<varlistentry id="udev">
-<term><command>udev</command></term>
-<listitem><indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udev"><primary
-sortas="b-udev">udev</primary></indexterm>
-<para>is used to create device nodes in <filename
-class="directory">/dev</filename> or to rename network interfaces (not in LFS)
-in response to hotplug events.</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="udevd">
-<term><command>udevd</command></term>
-<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevd"><primary
-sortas="b-udevd">udevd</primary></indexterm>
-<para>is a daemon that reorders hotplug events before submitting them to
-<command>udev</command>,
-thus avoiding various race conditions.</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="udevsend">
-<term><command>udevsend</command></term>
-<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevsend"><primary
-sortas="b-udevsend">udevsend</primary></indexterm>
-<para>is used to deliver hotplug events to <command>udevd</command>.</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="udevstart">
-<term><command>udevstart</command></term>
-<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevstart"><primary
-sortas="b-udevstart">udevstart</primary></indexterm>
-<para>is used to create device nodes in <filename
-class="directory">/dev</filename> 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 <command>udev</command>.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="udevinfo">
-<term><command>udevinfo</command></term>
-<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevinfo"><primary
-sortas="b-udevinfo">udevinfo</primary></indexterm>
-<para>allows users to query the <command>udev</command> 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.</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="udevtest">
-<term><command>udevtest</command></term>
-<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev udevtest"><primary
-sortas="b-udevtest">udevtest</primary></indexterm>
-<para>simulates a <command>udev</command> run for the given device,
-and prints out the name of the node the real <command>udev</command> would
-have created, or (not in LFS) the name of the renamed network interface.</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="etc-dev-d">
-<term><filename class="directory">/etc/dev.d</filename></term>
-<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-dev-d"><primary
-sortas="e-etc-dev-d">/etc/dev.d</primary></indexterm>
-<para>directory is supposed to contain user-written handlers for device
-creation hotplug events.</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="etc-udev">
-<term><filename class="directory">/etc/udev</filename></term>
-<listitem> <indexterm zone="ch-system-udev etc-udev"><primary
-sortas="e-etc-udev">/etc/udev</primary></indexterm>
-<para>directory contains <command>udev</command> configuration files,
-device permissions and rules for device naming.</para>
-</listitem></varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>