kay.sievers@vrfy.org
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:14:16AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:10:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:34:26PM -0600, Clay Haapala wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Chris Friesen spake thusly:
> > > >
> > > > Maybe for ones with a matching rule, you could print something like:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Is the act of printing/syslogging a rule in an of itself?
> >
> > No, as currently the only way stuff ends up in the syslog is if
> > DEBUG=true is used on the build line.
> >
> > But it's sounding like we might want to change that... :)
>
> How about this in the syslog after connect/disconnect?
>
> Jan 15 05:07:45 pim udev[28007]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/udev.rules' at line 17 applied, 'video*' becomes 'video/webcam%n'
> Jan 15 05:07:45 pim udev[28007]: creating device node '/udev/video/webcam0'
> Jan 15 05:07:47 pim udev[28015]: removing device node '/udev/video/webcam0'
Here is a slightly better version. I've created a logging.h file and
moved the debug macros from udev.h in there.
If you type:
'make' - you will get a binary that prints one or two lines to syslog
if a device node is created or deleted
'make LOG=false' - you get a binary that prints asolutely nothing
'make DEBUG=true' - the same as today, it will print all debug lines
udev - a userspace implementation of devfs
For more information on the design, and structure of this project, see the
files in the docs/ directory.
To use:
- You must be running a 2.6 version of the Linux kernel.
- Your 2.6 kernel must have had CONFIG_HOTPLUG enabled when it was built.
- Make sure sysfs is mounted. udev will figure out where sysfs is mounted, but
the traditional place for it is at /sys. You can mount it by hand by running:
mount -t sysfs none /sys
- Make sure you have the latest version of the linux-hotplug scripts. They are
available at linux-hotplug.sf.net or from your local kernel.org mirror at:
kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
They are required in order for udev to work properly.
If for some reason you do not install the hotplug scripts, you must tell the
kernel to point the hotplug binary at wherever you install udev at. This can
be done by:
echo "/sbin/udev" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
- Build the project:
make
Note:
There are a number of different flags that you can use when building
udev. They are as follows:
prefix - set this to the default root that you want udev to be
installed into. This works just like the 'configure --prefix'
script does. Default value is ''. Only override this if you
really know what you are doing.
USE_KLIBC - if set to 'true', udev is built and linked against the included
version of klibc. Default value is 'false'.
DEBUG - if set to 'true', debugging messages will be sent to the syslog
as udev is run. Default value is 'false'.
USE_DBUS - if set to 'true', DBUS messages will be sent everytime udev
creates or removes a device node. This requires that DBUS
development headers and libraries be present on your system to
build properly. Default value is 'false'.
So, if you want to build udev using klibc with debugging messages, you
would do:
make USE_KLIBC=true DEBUG=true
Note: If you want to use klibc, you will have to set up the "linux"
symlink properly. See the file klibc/klibc/README and pay
attention to step "a)" there.
- Install the project:
make install
This will put the udev binary in /sbin, create the /udev and /etc/udev
directories, and place the udev configuration files in /etc/udev. You
will probably want to edit the namedev.* files to create custom naming
rules. More info on how the config files are set up are contained in
comments in the files, and is located in the documentation.
- Add and remove devices from the system and marvel as nodes are created
and removed in /udev/ based on the device types.
- If you later get sick of it, uninstall it:
make uninstall
Things are still quite rough, but it should work properly. If nothing
seems to happen, make sure your build worked properly by running the
udev-test.pl script as root in the test/ subdirectory of the udev source
tree.
Development and documentation help is very much appreciated, see the TODO
file for a list of things left to be done.
Any comment/questions/concerns please let me and the other udev developers
know by sending a message to the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list at:
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
greg k-h
greg@kroah.com