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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2008-03-15 00:05:02 +0100
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2008-03-15 00:05:02 +0100
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@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ Important Note:
recommend to replace a distro's udev installation with the upstream version.
Requirements:
- - Version 2.6.15 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of
+ - Version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of
udev. The kernel may have a requirement on udev too, see Documentation/Changes
in the kernel source tree for the actual dependency.
- The kernel must have sysfs, unix domain sockets and networking enabled.
(unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module may work,
- but it is completely silly - don't complain if anything goes wrong.)
+ but it does not make any sense - don't complain if anything goes wrong.)
- The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, the sysfs filesystem must
- be mounted at /sys. No other location is supported by udev.
+ be mounted at /sys. No other locations are supported by udev.
Operation:
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Operation:
/etc/udev/rules.d/ which make it possible to hook into the event
processing to load required kernel modules and setup devices. For all
devices the kernel exports a major/minor number, udev will create a
- device node with the default kernel name or the one specified by a
+ device node with the default kernel name, or the one specified by a
matching udev rule.
@@ -71,22 +71,19 @@ Compile Options:
Installation:
- The install target intalls the udev binaries in the default locations,
- All at boot time reqired binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin.
+ All binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin.
- The default location for scripts and binaries that are called from
- rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, should use
+ rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, may use
that directory too.
- - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices directory to place
+ - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place
device nodes and symlinks in, which are copied to /dev at every boot.
That way, nodes for broken subsystems or devices which can't be
detected automatically by the kernel, will always be available.
- - Copies of the rules files for the major distros are provided as examples
- in the etc/udev directory.
-
- - The persistent device naming links in /dev/disk/ are required by other
- software that depends on the data udev has collected from the devices
+ - Default udev rules and persistent device naming rules are required by other
+ software that depends on the data udev collects from the devices,
and should be installed by default with every udev installation.
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