Install a few rules from udev's etc/udev/packages/ directory to handle device-mapper (LVM and dm-raid), md-raid, and a few Palm device symlinks.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8546 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/chapter06/udev.xml b/chapter06/udev.xml
index 95b7c3184..f2930ff7c 100644
--- a/chapter06/udev.xml
+++ b/chapter06/udev.xml
@@ -101,8 +101,23 @@ ln -sv /proc/kcore /lib/udev/devices/core</userinput></screen>
     </variablelist>
 
     <para>Udev has to be configured in order to work properly, as its default
-    configuration does not cover all devices. Install the (LFS-specific)
-    custom rules files:</para>
+    configuration does not cover all devices. First install a few extra rules
+    files from Udev to help support device-mapper and RAID setups:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">install -m644 -v etc/udev/packages/64-*.rules \
+    /etc/udev/rules.d/</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Now install a file to create symlinks for certain hand-held devices:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">install -m644 -v etc/udev/packages/40-pilot-links.rules \
+    /etc/udev/rules.d/40-pilot-links.rules</userinput></screen>
+
+    <!-- There are more files available in the packages/ directory, if we want
+         to consider using them.  Most are probably irrelevant to LFS though.
+         "alsa" isn't, but we already have those rules, using a better set of
+         matches.  Most of the files in packages/ are for other architectures. -->
+
+    <para>Now install the LFS-specific custom rules files:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">cd &udev-config;
 make install</userinput></screen>