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udev(7): Point out required extension, and remove some confusion

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Rules files must end in .rules.

Also drop the redundant and confusing sentence about "file names must be
unique". What is really meant is explained in a better way in the paragraph
above.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/616108
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Martin Pitt 2010-08-20 12:19:23 +02:00
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the custom rules directory <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename>
and the temporary rules directory <filename>/dev/.udev/rules.d/</filename>.
All rule files are sorted and processed in lexical order, regardless
in which of these directories they live.</para>
in which of these directories they live. Files in
<filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence over files with
the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This can be
used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
<para>Rule files are required to have a unique name, duplicate file names
are ignored. Files in <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence
over files with the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This
can be used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
<para>Rule files must end in <filename>.rules</filename>, other extensions
are ignored.</para>
<para>Every line in the rules file contains at least one key value pair.
There are two kind of keys, match and assignment keys.