From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 03:41:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [udev] man page beauty MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Message-Id: List-Id: To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I've never seen any project where the documentation is in sync with the code at this early stage. Nice! So here is the patch to make it extra perfect :) thanks, Kay 05-udev.8-tweaks.diff remove random indent to be consistent style is "shell style" s/wildcard/pattern/ mention negation char in character class --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline; filename="05-udev.8-tweaks.diff" diff -Nru a/udev.8 b/udev.8 --- a/udev.8 Thu Dec 4 04:24:15 2003 +++ b/udev.8 Thu Dec 4 04:24:15 2003 @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ .B udev queries the internal database for the name of the device file to be deleted. .SH "CONFIGURATION" -All udev configuration files consist of a set of lines of text. All empty +All +.B udev +configuration files consist of a set of lines of text. All empty lines, and lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored. .P @@ -96,11 +98,9 @@ is used. .P The line format is: -.RS .sp .I method, key,[key,...] name .sp -.RE where valid methods with corresponding keys are: .TP .B CALLOUT @@ -130,22 +130,13 @@ key: \fBKERNEL_NAME\fP .P The methods are applied in the following order: -.B CALLOUT -, -.B LABEL -, -.B NUMBER -, -.B TOPOLOGY -, -.B REPLACE +.BR CALLOUT ", " LABEL ", " NUMBER ", " TOPOLOGY ", " REPLACE "." .P The .B NAME and .B PROGRAM -fields support simple printf-like string subtitution: -.RS +fields support simple printf-like string substitution: .TP .B %n the "kernel number" of the device @@ -168,7 +159,6 @@ Use the devfs style disk name for this device. For partitions, this will result in 'part%n' If this is not a partition, it will result in 'disk' -.RE .P A sample \fIudev.rules\fP might look like this: .sp @@ -202,7 +192,7 @@ .br Every line lists a device name followed by owner, group and permission mode. All values are separated by colons. The name field may contain a -wildcard to apply the values to a whole class of devices. +pattern to apply the values to a whole class of devices. .br If .B udev @@ -221,9 +211,7 @@ .fi .P A number of different fields in the above configuration files support a simple -form of wildcard matching. This form is based on the fnmatch(3) style, and -supports the following fields: -.RS +form of shell style pattern matching. It supports the following pattern characters: .TP .B * Matches zero, one, or more characters. @@ -235,8 +223,8 @@ Matches any single character specified within the brackets. For example, the pattern string "tty[SR]" would match either "ttyS" or "ttyR". Ranges are also supported within this match with the '-' character. For example, to match on -the range of all digits, the pattern [0-9] would be used. -.RE +the range of all digits, the pattern [0-9] would be used. If the first character +following the '[' is a '!' then any character not enclosed is matched. .SH "FILES" .nf .ft B --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http://www.wrgsurveys.com/2003/osdntech03.php?site=8 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel