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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2010-01-26 19:28:22 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2010-01-26 19:28:22 +0000 |
commit | 3cf57d40591f302edea1962a8949fe646b365b5c (patch) | |
tree | 5b399448faf021f1e9100e193f509f1c09d8f792 /udev-config | |
parent | cf8d1947c2d2354d6492fa81c38ddf2eca5c1006 (diff) |
Remove a lot of redundant Udev rules. Upstream has most of what we need. Fixes #2527.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9165 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'udev-config')
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/55-lfs.rules | 48 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/61-cdrom.rules | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/Makefile | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/doc/05-udev-early.txt | 33 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/doc/55-lfs.txt | 92 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/doc/60-persistent-input.txt | 86 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/doc/60-persistent-storage.txt | 95 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/doc/61-cdrom.txt | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/doc/80-drivers.txt | 69 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | udev-config/doc/95-udev-late.txt | 18 |
11 files changed, 15 insertions, 453 deletions
diff --git a/udev-config/55-lfs.rules b/udev-config/55-lfs.rules index 8305ef633..34229ea2c 100644 --- a/udev-config/55-lfs.rules +++ b/udev-config/55-lfs.rules @@ -12,51 +12,3 @@ KERNEL=="ippp[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" KERNEL=="isdn[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" KERNEL=="isdnctrl[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" KERNEL=="dcbri[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" - -# ALSA devices go in their own subdirectory - -KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", GROUP="audio", NAME="snd/%k" -KERNEL=="hwC[0-9]*D[0-9]*", GROUP="audio", NAME="snd/%k" -KERNEL=="pcmC[0-9]*D[0-9]*[cp]", GROUP="audio", NAME="snd/%k" -KERNEL=="midiC[0-9]*D[0-9]*", GROUP="audio", NAME="snd/%k" -KERNEL=="timer", GROUP="audio", NAME="snd/%k" -KERNEL=="seq", GROUP="audio", NAME="snd/%k" - -# Sound devices - -KERNEL=="admmidi*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="adsp*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="aload*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="amidi*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="amixer*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="audio*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="dmfm*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="dmmidi*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="dsp*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="midi*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="mixer*", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="music", GROUP="audio" -KERNEL=="sequencer*", GROUP="audio" - -# Input devices - -KERNEL=="mice", SYMLINK+="mouse" - -# DRI devices are managed by the X server, so prevent udev from creating them - -KERNEL=="card*", OPTIONS+="ignore_device" - -# Video devices - -KERNEL=="fb[0-9]*", GROUP="video" - -# Storage/memory devices - -# dmsetup and lvm2 related programs create devicemapper devices so we prevent -# udev from creating them - -KERNEL=="dm-*", OPTIONS+="ignore_device" - -# Override floppy devices -KERNEL=="fd[0-9]", ACTION=="add|change", ATTRS{cmos}=="?*", \ - RUN+="create_floppy_devices -c -t $attr{cmos} -m %M -M 0660 -G floppy $root/%k" diff --git a/udev-config/61-cdrom.rules b/udev-config/61-cdrom.rules deleted file mode 100644 index 4db9efeb6..000000000 --- a/udev-config/61-cdrom.rules +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -# /etc/udev/rules.d/61-cdrom.rules: Set CD-ROM permissions. - -ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_TYPE}=="cd", GROUP="cdrom" diff --git a/udev-config/ChangeLog b/udev-config/ChangeLog index 2fe3d5442..130678d95 100644 --- a/udev-config/ChangeLog +++ b/udev-config/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-01-26 Matt Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> + * 55-lfs.rules: Remove lots of rules that have been merged upstream. + * 61-cdrom.rules: Remove as upstream has a replacement. + * doc/*: Cleanup and rewrite now that the rules are much simpler. + 2009-09-25 Bryan Kadzban <bryan@linuxfromscratch.org> * 55-lfs.rules: Make the RTC rule (which runs setclock) work for people that don't use the RTC-class driver -- add another copy of the rule, diff --git a/udev-config/Makefile b/udev-config/Makefile index 18451cd48..e8238c830 100644 --- a/udev-config/Makefile +++ b/udev-config/Makefile @@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ RULES_DIR = /etc/udev/rules.d INSTALL = install INSTALL_DATA = $(INSTALL) -m644 RULES_FILES = \ - 55-lfs.rules \ - 61-cdrom.rules + 55-lfs.rules DOC_FILES = $(RULES_FILES:.rules=.txt) EXTRA_DOC_FILES = \ diff --git a/udev-config/doc/05-udev-early.txt b/udev-config/doc/05-udev-early.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9c0fb4fb8..000000000 --- a/udev-config/doc/05-udev-early.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -Purpose of rules file: - -The kernel does not always fully populate a given kobject's attributes before -sending the uevent for that kobject. This means that a given sysfs directory -may not have all the required files in it (each directory corresponds to a -kobject, and each file corresponds to an attribute). - -Therefore, we must sometimes wait for attributes to show up when devices are -discovered. This is accomplished by udev's WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rule types. - - -Description of rules: - -All rules in this file match ACTION="add", because none of them apply when -devices are being removed. - -SUBSYSTEM is the kernel subsystem that the device uses. Current kernels have -some issues with SCSI device attributes being created too late. For any device -with a SUBSYSTEM of scsi, we must wait for the ioerr_cnt attribute. (This is -the last attribute created for SCSI devices, so when this attribute appears, -the kobject is fully populated.) - -It is also possible to use SUBSYSTEMS in Udev rules. Using SUBSYSTEMS would -cause Udev to search up the device tree for a matching SUBSYSTEM value. (Note -that "the device tree" is not necessarily the same as the path under /sys (the -DEVPATH). Rather, "up the device tree" is the path followed by udevinfo when -it is given the argument "-a".) - -We do not use SUBSYSTEMS in this rule, because we only care about the SUBSYSTEM -of the kobject in question. We don't care about devices that are children of -SCSI devices, only the SCSI device itself. We will use SUBSYSTEMS in later -rules, though. - diff --git a/udev-config/doc/55-lfs.txt b/udev-config/doc/55-lfs.txt index 7b09c79a0..5f116f9b7 100644 --- a/udev-config/doc/55-lfs.txt +++ b/udev-config/doc/55-lfs.txt @@ -1,94 +1,20 @@ Purpose of rules file: -This is the core rules file for Udev on LFS. If these rules were not included, -most devices would either only work for root, or would not work at all. - +Most of the rules installed by Udev itself create devices with the correct +properties. This file contains rules that have not been merged upstream yet. Description of rules: -By default, Udev creates device nodes with UID 0, GID 0, and permissions 0660, -and in one flat directory structure with all nodes in /dev. This does not -always work well. - -KERNEL=="ptmx" - -Any uevent generated by the kernel with a name matching "ptmx" will match this -rule. Note that the matching done by Udev is shell-style; these are not regex -matches. For the ptmx device, we first change the permisions, by assigning to -the MODE value: - -KERNEL=="ptmx", MODE="0666" - -We also assign a different GID to /dev/ptmx (also all other TTY devices), by -assigning to the GROUP value: - -KERNEL=="ptmx", MODE="0666", "GROUP="tty" - - -There are also devices that should not be in /dev, because historically they -have been created in subdirectories instead. For instance, all Alsa devices -have traditionally been put into the /dev/snd subdirectory: - -KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", <...>, NAME="snd/%k" - -"%k" expands into "the original value of KERNEL" (note: not the pattern that was -matched against). This type of rule puts any matching device into the snd/ -subdirectory. - -Sometimes we need to move devices based on more than just their name. For -example, USB printer devices need to be moved to /dev/usb/lpX, but we can't -match only "lp[0-9]*", because that would also match parallel port printers. -So we match both KERNEL and SUBSYSTEMS in this case, to move USB printers only. - - -Some devices also commonly have symlinks pointing to them -- for example, -/dev/mouse is usually a symlink to /dev/input/mice. We acheive this by -assigning to the SYMLINK value. But note that SYMLINK can store multiple values -(because each device node could have multiple symlinks pointing to it), so we -need to add to the list of symlinks, not overwrite the whole list: - -KERNEL=="mice", <...>, SYMLINK+="mouse" - -If we needed to add multiple symlinks, they would be space-separated inside the -double quotes. - -Of course, symlinks, permissions, and device names can all be combined in a -rule if needed. But note that if you combine permissions and symlinks, or if -you combine GROUP and symlinks, the permissions of the symlink will not be -modified, only those of the target device. (This is because the kernel does -not pay any attention to the permissions on symlinks, only the permissions on -their targets, and there's no reason to change something that won't be used.) - - -Finally, we have this rule: - -SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'X=%k; X=$${X#usbdev}; B=$${X%%%%.*} D=$${X#*.}; echo bus/usb/$$B/$$D'", NAME="%c" - -This rule matches any device under the SUBSYSTEM of usb_device. (All devices -that were traditionally created under /proc/bus/usb/ use this subsystem.) We -tell Udev to run the specified PROGRAM; Udev will save the output of this -program (it will be available under %c later). - -The program itself is a shell that starts by setting the variable X to the -original kernel name (which is "usbdevB.D" for these devices, where B and D are -the bus and device numbers of the USB device). Then, the rule re-sets X to the -value of X with the string "usbdev" removed from the start. So now, X has the -value "B.D". Then, the rule sets B to the value of X after a period, and all -characters following it, have been removed from the end; this sets B to just -the string "B" (just the bus number of the USB device). Then, the rule sets D -to the value of X after a period, and all characters before it, have been -removed from the beginning; this sets D to just the string "D" (just the device -number). +By default, Udev creates device nodes with UID 0, GID 0, and permissions 0660. -Then, the rule echoes "bus/usb/$B/$D" (bus/usb/bus-number/device-number), so -Udev will capture that value. The rule sets NAME="%c" to put the device node -at /dev/bus/usb/bus-number/device-number. (This is the same layout that the -/proc/bus/usb/ devices used.) +ISDN-related devices should be owned by the 'dialout' group, hence the following +rule (and similar): -Most of the doubled characters in this rule are doubled so that Udev does not -interpret them. The rule looks all the more confusing because of this method -of escaping special characters. +KERNEL=="ippp[0-9]*", GROUP="dialout" +The RTC-related rules cause the setclock bootscript to be run as soon as the +RTC device has been created by Udev, meaning that times in log files, for +example, are as accurate as possible as quickly as possible. A final word of caution: Any particular rule must be written on one line, and a comma must separate each part of the rule. diff --git a/udev-config/doc/60-persistent-input.txt b/udev-config/doc/60-persistent-input.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 45030723f..000000000 --- a/udev-config/doc/60-persistent-input.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,86 +0,0 @@ -Purpose of rules file: - -This rules file provides nonvolatile, unique names (in the form of symlinks) -for input devices that cooperate. - - -Description of rules: - -This file starts off with a few rules that make Udev skip the entire file if -the current uevent is not input related. If ACTION is not "add", or SUBSYSTEM -is not "input", or KERNEL (the device node) matches "input[0-9]*", then Udev -will GOTO the LABEL named "persistent_input_end", which is the last rule in -this file. (input[0-9]* uevents are skipped because they do not create device -nodes.) - -This type of "skip this list of rules if X" operation is done in both the -persistent input and persistent storage rules files. The reason is efficiency --- if Udev had to go run the usb_id and/or path_id programs for non-input and -non-storage rules, those rules would take much longer to process for no good -reason. - - -First in this file is a set of rules for by-ID style symlinks. These attempt -to uniquely identify a device based on its serial number, but there are some -issues with this. Many USB manufacturers do not provide a unique serial number -for each device -- for instance, my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical has a USB -serial number of "Microsoft_Microsoft_IntelliMouse_Optical". This kind of -nonsensical "serial number" means that if you plug in two Intellimouse Optical -devices, they will both get the same by-id symlink, and the device that the -symlink points to will be random. This defeats the purpose of by-ID symlinks. -(However, I believe this behavior is technically valid according to the USB -standard. I believe it is not recommended, though.) - -Anyway, first in the by-ID rules, we have a rule that runs for any (input) -device hanging anywhere off a USB bus. It uses the IMPORT{program} option to -run the "/lib/udev/usb_id -x" program. usb_id looks at the environment to find -out which device to look at, generates a list of environment-variable VAR=value -pairs, and prints them. Udev stores this output away while the process is -running. After the process exits, Udev modifies the current environment to -include the VARs that usb_id printed. (It assigns the "value"s that usb_id -printed to each of those VARs.) Specifically, usb_id prints ID_VENDOR, -ID_MODEL, ID_REVISION, ID_SERIAL, ID_TYPE, and ID_BUS (at least in the case of -the aforementioned USB optical mouse). These variable names will all be set in -the environment. - -Then, we have a set of rules to set ID_CLASS for various types of devices. The -rules first check for a "usb"-bus device that has a "bInterfaceClass" of 03 and -a "bInterfaceProtocol" of 01. If the interface class is 03, this is an HID -device. If the protocol is 01, it's a keyboard device. So we set ID_CLASS to -"kbd". The next rule checks whether the interface protocol is 02, and if so, -sets ID_CLASS to "mouse" (HID devices with a protocol of 02 are mice). - -Any input device that the "pcspkr" driver claims must be a speaker. Any input -device that the "atkbd" driver claims must be a keyboard. Any input device -that the "psmouse" driver claims must be a mouse. If there's a sysfs attribute -named "name", whose contents contain "dvb", "DVB", or " IR ", then we set -ID_CLASS to "ir". - -Then, we have a rule to search the tree and find the first parent that has a -modalias. If that modalias matches the big long ugly string in the rules file, -we assume this is a joystick device, and set ID_CLASS appropriately. (This -parent should be the kobject for the joystick device itself. The reason we -search the tree is that the current uevent is for a device node, not the -physical joystick device.) - -Once the ID_CLASS variable is set properly, we have one more modification to -perform: if the ID_SERIAL variable was not set at all by the usb_id program, we -set it to "noserial". - -Now that all the environment variables are set up properly, we start generating -the by-ID symlinks in /dev/input/by-id/. If the current device node's name -starts with "event", we add "event" into the symlink name. Otherwise, we don't -add anything for mice. (Other device types don't get a persistent by-ID -symlink.) - - -Next, we create by-path symlinks. The /lib/udev/path_id program takes the path -of the device as an argument, and prints out "ID_PATH=string", where "string" -is the "shortest physical path" to the device. We import this value into the -environment. - -If the path is non-empty, and the device node name starts with "mouse" or -"event", we add a by-path symlink based on the path and the device class (and -we also add "event" if it's an event device). This symlink should be stable as -long as the device never moves to a different port. - diff --git a/udev-config/doc/60-persistent-storage.txt b/udev-config/doc/60-persistent-storage.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 32062c559..000000000 --- a/udev-config/doc/60-persistent-storage.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ -Purpose of rules file: - -This rules file provides nonvolatile, unique names (in the form of symlinks) -for various types of storage devices -- both IDE/ATA and SCSI. - - -Description of rules: - -First, similar to the 60-persistent-input.rules file, we skip the entire file -for uevents that this rules file should not apply to, as an optimization. The -file does not apply to removal uevents or non-block devices. It does not apply -to ramdisks, loopback-mount devices, floppy disks, netblock devices, or device- -mapper devices. It also should not apply to removable devices (that is, non- -partition devices with attributes named "removable" with the value "1", or -partition devices whose parents have "removable" set to "1" -- partition -kobjects don't have the "removable" attribute, only whole-disk kobjects do). - -For partition devices, we use the IMPORT{parent} option to pull in all the -environment variables that get set for the parent device. (The parent of a -partition device is the containing whole-disk device.) The IMPORT{parent} -option is documented in the udev(7) manpage, but basically the value that we -assign is used as a filter of environment variable names to import. - -Now, we start with rules to create by-ID symlinks (similar to the by-ID links -created for input devices). For hd* whole-disk devices (they're IDE/ATA, since -they start with hd), we run the ata_id program in --export mode. The ata_id -program requires a device node to be passed, so we also use the $tempnode Udev -variable -- this causes Udev to create a temporary device node somewhere and -substitute its name where $tempnode appears in the program command line. - -The ata_id program, in --export mode, prints several ID_* values. If we're -looking at a whole-disk device, and if ID_SERIAL is among those, we add a -symlink containing the device's ID_MODEL and ID_SERIAL values. If we're -looking at a partition device, we create an ID_MODEL- and ID_SERIAL-based -symlink also, but we add -partX to the end of the link name (where X is the -partition number). - -For SCSI devices, we first make some modifications to the environment. If the -device's kobject has a parent with a non-empty "ieee1394_id" attribute, then -the device is Firewire, so we set the ID_SERIAL environment variable to the -value of that attribute, and we set ID_BUS to "ieee1394". Now, if ID_SERIAL is -not set, we run usb_id, which (if this is a USB storage device) will print -various values. If ID_SERIAL is still unset, we run scsi_id with a set of -parameters designed to get an ID_SERIAL by querying the device itself. If that -still fails, we try running scsi_id in a mode that prints the information even -if the disk doesn't support so-called "vital product data" pages. If the -uevent is for a DASD device, we run dasd_id. - -If one of these *_id programs gave us an ID_SERIAL, then for whole-disk devices -we create a by-ID symlink using the ID_BUS and ID_SERIAL. For partition -devices, we create a by-ID symlink that has the same form except we add -partX -to the end (just like for IDE/ATA devices). - - -Now we have some rules to create by-path persistent symlinks. We start by -running the path_id program on the DEVPATH (%p) value. For whole-disk devices -and SCSI ROM type devices, we create a symlink directly, using the environment -variable ID_PATH, under the /dev/disk/by-path directory. But for SCSI tape -devices, we create a by-path symlink in the /dev/tape/by-path directory (we -base the symlink on the same information, though: the ID_PATH value printed by -path_id). Now, for both SCSI ROM and SCSI tape devices, we skip everything -that's left in the rules file (this is another optimization: neither SCSI ROM -nor SCSI tape devices have UUIDs, labels, or EDD information). - -For partition devices, we now create a by-path symlink of the same form as the -other partition device persistent symlinks (that is, with the same name as the -parent device, but with -partX added). We know that ID_PATH is set whenever it -applies, because we ran the path_id program on the parent device, and we did an -IMPORT{parent} on ID_* earlier in the rules file. - -Now we create by-label and by-uuid symlinks. These use properties of various -filesystems to generate a persistent name for a partition. For instance, if -you use the ext2 filesystem, you can use e2label to assign a label, and mke2fs -assigns a UUID when the filesystem is created. MS-DOS compatible filesystems -also assign a "UUID" (actually it's just a serial number, created based on the -date and time the partition was formatted, so it is not unique), which these -rules will also use. But for removable partitions, we skip the rules (for the -same reason as we skipped them above for removable disks). - -We run the vol_id program to get ID_FS_USAGE, ID_FS_UUID, and ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE -values. (vol_id supports other values as well, but we do not use them here.) -ID_FS_USAGE corresponds to the way the filesystem is supposed to be used; if it -gets set to "filesystem", "other", or "crypto", we create a symlink. If -ID_FS_UUID is set, we use it in a by-uuid symlink. If ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE is set, -we use it in a by-label symlink. - -Finally, we create EDD-based symlinks in the by-id directory. For whole-disk -devices, we run edd_id to get the EDD-generated ID string. (For partition -devices, we import this string from the parent.) If edd_id yields an ID_EDD -value, we use it in a symlink, for both whole disks and partitions. - - -The last rule in the file is merely a LABEL that various other rules use to -bypass the file (or the rest of the file) when needed. - diff --git a/udev-config/doc/61-cdrom.txt b/udev-config/doc/61-cdrom.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ff7887fe3..000000000 --- a/udev-config/doc/61-cdrom.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -Purpose of rules file: - -This file re-assigns CD-ROM type devices to the "cdrom" group. - - -Description of rules: - -There is only one rule here. It depends on the 60-persistent-storage file, -though, because it requires the ID_TYPE environment variable to be set properly -for CD devices. Normally the rules in the 60-persistent-storage.rules file -will run the correct *_id programs to do this properly. - -If ID_TYPE is "cd", and this is a block device, and it's an add event, then we -assign the device to the "cdrom" group. Simple, once the *_id programs have -all been run. - diff --git a/udev-config/doc/80-drivers.txt b/udev-config/doc/80-drivers.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e5cfcefb3..000000000 --- a/udev-config/doc/80-drivers.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ -Purpose of rules file: - -The rules in this file allow Udev to fully replace the old /sbin/hotplug -script. They automatically load kernel modules as devices are discovered. - - -Description of rules: - -All rules in this file match ACTION=="add", so they only run when devices are -being added. - -ENV{MODALIAS} is the value of the environment variable named MODALIAS. This -environment variable is sent by the kernel when it sends a uevent for any -device that has a modalias. Modaliases are strings that can be used to load -the appropriate kernel module driver. - -Generally a modalias will contain information like vendor ID, device ID, and -possibly other IDs depending on the bus the device is connected to. (USB, for -instance, has the concept of a "device class" and a "device interface", which -are basically just ways to standardize the USB protocol for various types of -devices. This is what allows a single kernel module such as hid.ko to drive -many different vendors' USB input devices: all devices that support the USB -HID interface expose the HID interface number in their modalias, and so the -hid.ko driver can be loaded for each device. When it loads, hid.ko attaches -to the HID interface and does whatever is needed to work with each device.) - -Kernel modules that drive hardware expose a list of modaliases. These -modaliases are matched against the device modalias by /sbin/modprobe (after -shell-style expansion), with the help of /sbin/depmod's modules.alias file. -The upshot of all this is, you can tell Udev to run "/sbin/modprobe modalias", -and it will load the module that claims it can drive the "modalias" device. - -The rule that does this inspects ENV{MODALIAS} to ensure it is not empty. It -does this by comparing it to "?*" -- inside a match, "*" would match *any* -string, including the empty string, so to ensure MODALIAS is not empty, we need -to match against "?*" instead. ("?" matches any one character.) - -The Udev RUN+="" option adds a program to run when the rule matches. In this -case, we tell Udev to run "/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}". Note that Udev does -not do path searches; if the executable is not specified with a fully-qualified -path, it *must* be located under the /lib/udev directory. If it is not, you -*must* specify a fully-qualified path, as we do here. Also, "$env{string}" is -replaced by the value of the environment variable "string" when the command -runs, so this adds the modalias to the modprobe command. The modprobe program -will do the rest. Finally, the {ignore_error} option is added to the RUN key; -this prevents Udev from failing the uevent if the modprobe command fails. (The -modprobe command will fail when run during cold-plugging, if the driver was -configured into the kernel instead of as a module, for instance.) - -There is still one feature of the old hotplug shell-script system that Udev -cannot provide: blacklisting modules from being auto-loaded. To accomplish -this, we must use module-init-tools. In /etc/modprobe.conf, if you use the -"blacklist <module-name>" syntax, modprobe will not load <module-name> under -any name except its real module name. Any modaliases exposed by that module -will not be honored. - - -There are also rules in this file for various other types of driver loading. -PNP-BIOS devices, for instance, expose a list of PNP IDs in their sysfs "id" -attribute, instead of exposing a single MODALIAS, so one rule loops through -each ID and tries to load the appropriate module. Several other types of -devices require an extra module before they will work properly; one example -of this is IDE tapes, which require the ide-scsi module. Finally, whenever -any SCSI device is found, the file uses the TEST key to check whether the -/sys/module/sg directory exists. If not, then the "sg" module -- the SCSI -generic driver -- is loaded. (That driver creates the module/sg directory, -so the module/sg test is just to see whether the driver has already been -loaded.) - diff --git a/udev-config/doc/95-udev-late.txt b/udev-config/doc/95-udev-late.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 00ea17c61..000000000 --- a/udev-config/doc/95-udev-late.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -Purpose of rules file: - -Sends all uevents to a Unix-domain socket, where they can be monitored by other -programs. - - -Description of rules: - -There is only one rule, which matches all uevents. It uses Udev's RUN key to -specify a socket to send each uevent to. Normally RUN is used to start up a -process, but if the pathname starts with "socket:", Udev instead interprets -the rest of the name as a Unix-domain socket to send the uevent to. In this -case, we send send the uevent to the socket named /org/kernel/udev/monitor, -which is created by the udevmonitor program. Udevmonitor is used to watch -uevents as they come to Udev. Its only purpose is for debugging, but sending -the uevent to a socket that doesn't exist is a very cheap operation, so we -enable this rule for all uevents. - |