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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/udev.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/udev.xml | 84 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | general.ent | 4 |
4 files changed, 87 insertions, 6 deletions
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.</para> </itemizedlist> </listitem> +<listitem><para>June 26, 2004 [matt]: Added descriptions for udev package +contents (Alexander Patrakov)</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.7.0 and updated the Net-tools GCC 3.4 patch.</para></listitem> 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 @@ <secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm> <sect2 role="package"><title/> -<!-- <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</title> -<para>Who knows?</para> -</sect2> +<segmentedlist> +<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> +<seglistitem><seg>udev, udevd, udevsend, udevstart, udevinfo, udevtest</seg></seglistitem> +</segmentedlist> + +<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="b-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="b-etc-udev">/etc/udev</primary></indexterm> +<para>directory contains <command>udev</command> configuation files, +device permissions and rules for device naming.</para> +</listitem></varlistentry> +</variablelist> +</sect2> </sect1> diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent index b5efbda05..5b4ec0581 100644 --- a/general.ent +++ b/general.ent @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!ENTITY version "SVN-20040624"> -<!ENTITY releasedate "June 24, 2004"> +<!ENTITY version "SVN-20040626"> +<!ENTITY releasedate "June 26, 2004"> <!ENTITY milestone "6.0"> <!ENTITY lfs-root "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/"> |