From c59fe132197afde128dfe8595d045770dadb0480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Burgess Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:30:17 +0000 Subject: Typo and rewording of hotplug filelist git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4758 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/hotplug.xml | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06') diff --git a/chapter06/hotplug.xml b/chapter06/hotplug.xml index 715a52d91..6aa10f214 100644 --- a/chapter06/hotplug.xml +++ b/chapter06/hotplug.xml @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ directory: hotplug -This script is called by default by Linux kernel when something +This script is called by default by the Linux kernel when something changes in its internal state (e.g., a new device is added or removed). @@ -95,14 +95,12 @@ changes in its internal state (e.g., a new device is added or removed). /etc/hotplug/*.rc -These scripts are used for cold plugging, i.e., detection and other -specific actions upon hardware already present during system startup. -They are called by the hotplug initscript that comes -from the LFS-Bootscripts package. -The *.rc -scripts try to recover hotplug events that were lost during system boot -because, e.g., the root filesystem was not mounted by the kernel. - +These scripts are used for cold plugging, i.e., detecting and acting upon +hardware already present during system startup. They are called by the +hotplug initscript that comes from the LFS-Bootscripts +package. The *.rc scripts try to recover hotplug events that +were lost during system boot because, for example, the root filesystem was not +mounted by the kernel. @@ -113,8 +111,8 @@ because, e.g., the root filesystem was not mounted by the kernel. sortas="d-/etc/hotplug/*.agent">/etc/hotplug/*.agent These scripts are called by hotplug in response to different types of hotplug events generated by the kernel. -Their action is to insert corresponding kernel modules and call user-provided -scripts, if any. +Their action is to insert corresponding kernel modules and call any +user-provided scripts. @@ -124,7 +122,7 @@ scripts, if any. /etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions -This file contains common functions used by other scripts in Hotplug +This file contains common functions used by other scripts in the Hotplug package. @@ -135,8 +133,8 @@ package. /etc/hotplug/blacklist -This file contains the list of modules that should never be -inserted into the kernel by hotplug scripts. +This file contains the list of modules that should never be inserted into +the kernel by the hotplug scripts. @@ -146,8 +144,7 @@ inserted into the kernel by hotplug scripts. /etc/hotplug/{pci,usb} -These directories are supposed to contain user-written handlers for -hotplug events. +These directories contain user-written handlers for hotplug events. @@ -158,7 +155,7 @@ hotplug events. /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap This file contains rules that determine which user-defined handlers to -call for each USB device, based on its vendor, id and other attributes. +call for each USB device, based on its vendor ID and other attributes. @@ -168,7 +165,7 @@ call for each USB device, based on its vendor, id and other attributes. /var/log/hotplug/events -This file contains all the events since bootup that hotplug has called. +This file contains all the events that hotplug has called since bootup. @@ -178,10 +175,9 @@ sortas="e-/var/log/hotplug/events">/var/log/hotplug/events /etc/hotplug.d -This directory contains programs (or symlinks to them) -that are interested in receiving hotplug events. E.g., -Udev puts its symlink here during installation. - +This directory contains programs (or symlinks to them) that are interested +in receiving hotplug events. For example, Udev puts +its symlink here during installation. @@ -190,9 +186,8 @@ that are interested in receiving hotplug events. E.g., /lib/firmware -This directory contains the firmware for devices that -need to have there firmware loaded before use. - +This directory contains the firmware for devices that need to have their +firmware loaded before use. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf