nldev.8 (1351B)
1 .Dd April 15, 2012 2 .Dt NLDEV 8 3 .Os 4 . 5 .Sh NAME 6 .Nm nldev 7 .Nd a simple netlink device manager 8 . 9 .Sh SYNOPSIS 10 .Nm 11 .Bk -words 12 .Op Fl h 13 .Op Fl d 14 .Op Fl b 15 .Op Fl k 16 .Op Fl u 17 .Op Fl f Ar subsystem 18 .Op Fl r Ar runpath 19 .Ek 20 . 21 .Sh DESCRIPTION 22 .Bd -filled 23 .Nm 24 is a simple netlink device manager. It does this by emulating 25 the behaviour of the hotplug system built into the Linux kernel. 26 The defaults are meant to fit to the mdev applet included in 27 busybox. 28 .Ed 29 . 30 .Sh OPTIONS 31 .Nm 32 options and default settings. 33 .Pp 34 .Bl -tag -width ".Fl test Ao Ar string Ac" 35 . 36 .It Fl b 37 Run in background. 38 . 39 .It Fl d 40 Turn on debug messages. This will not work in conjunction with 41 -b. 42 . 43 .It Fl f Ar subsystem 44 This option will filter for the subsystem key in a netlink message 45 and compare it to the subsystem string. On success runpath helper 46 will be run. 47 . 48 .It Fl h 49 Show usage. 50 . 51 .It Fl k 52 Only show netlink messages from the kernel. 53 . 54 .Bd -filled 55 .It Fl u 56 Only show netlink messages from libudev. 57 . 58 .It Fl r Ar runpath 59 This option specifies the runpath for the helper that is launched 60 on every received netlink event (default: /bin/mdev). 61 .El 62 63 If neither subsystem nor runpath is specified, uevents are processed 64 based on compiled-in config. 65 . 66 .Sh AUTHORS 67 See the LICENSE file for the authors of this software. 68 . 69 .Sh LICENSE 70 .Nm 71 is released under the MIT/X Consortium License. 72 . 73