man: udevadm: clarify the behavior when multiple matching rules are specified

Closes #2995.
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Yu Watanabe 2019-01-22 15:52:39 +09:00 committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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<refsect2><title>udevadm trigger
<arg choice="opt"><replaceable>options</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat"><replaceable>devpath</replaceable>|<replaceable>file</replaceable>|<replaceable>unit</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice="opt"><replaceable>devpath</replaceable>|<replaceable>file</replaceable>|<replaceable>unit</replaceable></arg>
</title>
<para>Request device events from the kernel. Primarily used to replay events at system coldplug time.</para>
<para>Takes one or more device specifications as arguments. See the description of <command>info</command>
<para>Takes a device specification as a positional argument. See the description of <command>info</command>
above.</para>
<variablelist>
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<term><option>--subsystem-match=<replaceable>SUBSYSTEM</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for devices which belong to a
matching subsystem. This option can be specified multiple
times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
matching subsystem. This option supports shell style pattern matching.
When this option is specified more than once, then each matching result is ORed, that is,
all the devices in each subsystem are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
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<term><option>--subsystem-nomatch=<replaceable>SUBSYSTEM</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Do not trigger events for devices which belong to a matching subsystem. This option
can be specified multiple times and supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
supports shell style pattern matching. When this option is specified more than once,
then each matching result is ANDed, that is, devices which do not match all specified
subsystems are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-a</option></term>
<term><option>--attr-match=<replaceable>ATTRIBUTE</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching sysfs
attribute. If a value is specified along with the
attribute name, the content of the attribute is matched
against the given value using shell style pattern
matching. If no value is specified, the existence of the
sysfs attribute is checked. This option can be specified
multiple times.</para>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching sysfs attribute. If a value is specified along
with the attribute name, the content of the attribute is matched against the given value using
shell style pattern matching. If no value is specified, the existence of the sysfs attribute is
checked. When this option is specified multiple times, then each matching result is ANDed,
that is, only devices which have all specified attributes are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-A</option></term>
<term><option>--attr-nomatch=<replaceable>ATTRIBUTE</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Do not trigger events for devices with a matching
sysfs attribute. If a value is specified along with the
attribute name, the content of the attribute is matched
against the given value using shell style pattern
matching. If no value is specified, the existence of the
sysfs attribute is checked. This option can be specified
multiple times.</para>
<para>Do not trigger events for devices with a matching sysfs attribute. If a value is specified
along with the attribute name, the content of the attribute is matched against the given value
using shell style pattern matching. If no value is specified, the existence of the sysfs attribute
is checked. When this option is specified multiple times, then each matching result is ANDed,
that is, only devices which have none of the specified attributes are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<term><option>--property-match=<replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching property
value. This option can be specified multiple times and
supports shell style pattern matching.</para>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching property value. This option supports shell style
pattern matching. When this option is specified more than once, then each matching result is ORed,
that is, devices which have one of the specified properties are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-g</option></term>
<term><option>--tag-match=<replaceable>PROPERTY</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching tag. This
option can be specified multiple times.</para>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching tag. When this option is specified multiple times,
then each matching result is ANDed, that is, devices which have all specified tags are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-y</option></term>
<term><option>--sysname-match=<replaceable>PATH</replaceable></option></term>
<term><option>--sysname-match=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for devices for which the last component
(i.e. the filename) of the <filename>/sys</filename> path matches
the specified <replaceable>PATH</replaceable>. This option can be
specified multiple times and also supports shell style pattern
matching.</para>
<para>Trigger events for devices for which the last component (i.e. the filename) of the
<filename>/sys</filename> path matches the specified <replaceable>PATH</replaceable>. This option
supports shell style pattern matching. When this option is specified more than once, then each
matching result is ORed, that is, all devices which have any of the specified
<replaceable>NAME</replaceable> are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--name-match=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching
device path. This option can be specified multiple
times.</para>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching device path. When this option is specified more than once,
the last <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is used.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-b</option></term>
<term><option>--parent-match=<replaceable>SYSPATH</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for all children of a given
device.</para>
<para>Trigger events for all children of a given device. When this option is specified more than once,
the last <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is used.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
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<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
</variablelist>
<para>In addition, optional positional arguments can be used
to specify device names or sys paths. They must start with
<para>In addition, an optional positional argument can be used
to specify device name or sys path. It must start with
<filename>/dev</filename> or <filename>/sys</filename>
respectively.</para>
</refsect2>
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<term><option>-s</option></term>
<term><option>--subsystem-match=<replaceable>string[/string]</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Filter kernel uevents and udev events by subsystem[/devtype]. Only events with a matching subsystem value will pass.</para>
<para>Filter kernel uevents and udev events by subsystem[/devtype]. Only events with a matching subsystem value will pass.
When this option is specified more than once, then each matching result is ORed, that is, all devices in the specified
subsystems are monitored.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-t</option></term>
<term><option>--tag-match=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Filter udev events by tag. Only udev events with a given tag attached will pass.</para>
<para>Filter udev events by tag. Only udev events with a given tag attached will pass.
When this option is specified more than once, then each matching result is ORed, that is, devices which have one of the
specified tags are monitored.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>