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@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ recommend to replace a distro's udev installation with the upstream version.
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Tools and rules shipped by udev are not public API and may change at any time.
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Never call any private tool in /lib/udev from any external application, it might
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just go away in the next release. Access to udev information is only offered
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by udevadm and libudev. Tools and rules in /lib/udev and the entire content of
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/dev/.udev/ is private to udev.
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by udevadm and libudev. Tools and rules in /lib/udev, and the entire content of
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the /dev/.udev directory is private to udev and does change whenever needed.
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Requirements:
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- Version 2.6.25 of the Linux kernel with sysfs, procfs, signalfd, inotify,
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CONFIG_INOTIFY=y
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CONFIG_SIGNALFD=y
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CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y (user ACLs for device nodes)
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y (SCSI tape devices)
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y (SCSI devices)
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- For reliable operation, the kernel must not use the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED*
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- For reliable operations, the kernel must not use the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED*
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option.
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- Unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module is not
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supported.
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- Unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module may work,
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but it is not supported.
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- The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc/, the sysfs filesystem must
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be mounted at /sys/. No other locations are supported by udev.
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- The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, the sysfs filesystem must
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be mounted at /sys. No other locations are supported by udev.
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- The system must have the following group names resolvable at udev startup:
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disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
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--disable-extras option.
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Operation:
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Udev creates and removes device nodes in /dev/, based on events the kernel
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Udev creates and removes device nodes in /dev, based on events the kernel
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sends out on device discovery or removal.
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- Early in the boot process, the /dev/ directory should get a 'tmpfs'
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- Early in the boot process, the /dev directory should get a 'tmpfs'
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filesystem mounted, which is maintained by udev. Created nodes or changed
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permissions will not survive a reboot, which is intentional.
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- The content of /lib/udev/devices/ directory which contains the nodes,
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- The content of /lib/udev/devices directory which contains the nodes,
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symlinks and directories, which are always expected to be in /dev, should
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be copied over to the tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes
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to initialize udev and continue booting.
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- The old hotplug helper /sbin/hotplug should be disabled in the kernel
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configuration, it is not needed, and may render the system unusable
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because of a fork-bombing behavior.
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- The deprecated hotplug helper /sbin/hotplug should be disabled in the
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kernel configuration, it is not needed today, and may render the system
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unusable because the kernel may create too many processes in parallel
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so that the system runs out-of-memory.
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- All kernel events are matched against a set of specified rules in
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/lib/udev/rules.d/ which make it possible to hook into the event
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/lib/udev/rules.d which make it possible to hook into the event
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processing to load required kernel modules and setup devices. For all
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devices the kernel exports a major/minor number, udev will create a
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device node with the default kernel name, or the one specified by a
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matching udev rule.
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Please direct any comment/question/concern to the linux-hotplug mailing list at:
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Please direct any comment/question to the linux-hotplug mailing list at:
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linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
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