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diff --git a/udev-lfs/doc/55-lfs.txt b/udev-lfs/doc/55-lfs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5f116f9b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/udev-lfs/doc/55-lfs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Purpose of rules file: + +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. + +ISDN-related devices should be owned by the 'dialout' group, hence the following +rule (and similar): + +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-lfs/doc/README b/udev-lfs/doc/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..01216694c --- /dev/null +++ b/udev-lfs/doc/README @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This directory contains documentation for each rule file used in LFS. + +Each .rules file should contain a corresponding .txt file in this directory, +which explains both the overall purpose of the rules file, and each type of +rule contained therein. + |