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On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:14:28AM -0400, esr@thyrsus.com wrote: > This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page for which > you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right person or list, tell > me and I will attempt to correct my database. > > See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/problems.html for details on how and > why these patches were generated. Feel free to email me with any questions. > > Note: This patch does not change the mod date of the manual page. You > may wish to do that by hand. > > Problems with udevd.8: > > 1. There are multiple name lines. This makes it impossible to translate > the page to DocBook. It may also confuse some implementations > of man -k. > > --- udevd.8-orig 2004-07-10 06:35:12.032545856 -0400 > +++ udevd.8 2004-07-10 06:36:19.301319448 -0400 > @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ > .TH UDEVD 8 "February 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual" > .SH NAME > -udevd \- udev event serializer daemon > -.br > -udevsend \- sends the event to udevd > +udevd, udevdsend \- udev event serializer daemon and udev event sender > .SH SYNOPSIS > -- > Eric S. Raymond > Thanks Eric, udevsend.8 is only a symlink to udevd.8, so I attached a stripped down patch to this mail.
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.TH UDEVD 8 "February 2004" "" "Linux Administrator's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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udevd, udevdsend \- udev event serializer daemon and udev event sender
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BI udevsend " hotplug-subsystem"
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.sp
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The environment must provide the following variables:
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.TP
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.B ACTION
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.IR add " or " remove
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signifies the connection or disconnection of a device.
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.TP
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.B DEVPATH
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The sysfs devpath of the device without the mountpoint but a leading slash.
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.TP
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.B SEQNUM
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The sequence number of the event provided by the kernel.
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If unset, the event bypasses the queue and will be executed immediately.
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.B udevd
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allows the serialization of
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.BR hotplug (8)
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events. The events generated by the kernel may arrive in random order
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in userspace, that makes it neccessary to reorder them.
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.br
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.B udevd
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takes care of the kernel supplied sequence number and arranges the events for
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execution in the correct order. Missing sequences delay the execution of the
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following events until a timeout is reached.
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.br
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For each event a
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.BR udev (8)
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instance is executed in the background. All further events for the same device
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are delayed until the execution is finished. This way there will never be more
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than one instance running for a single device at the same time.
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.br
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.B udevd
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receives the events from
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.B udevsend
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which is called by
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.BR hotplug (8).
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If
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.B udevd
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isn't already running,
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.B udevsend
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will start it.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR udev (8),
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.BR udevinfo (8),
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.BR hotplug (8)
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.SH AUTHORS
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.B udevd
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was developed primarily by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, with much help
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from others.
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