devd.conf(5)
NAME
devd.conf - configuration file for devd(8)
DESCRIPTION
- General Syntax
- A devd(8) configuration consists of two general features,
- statements and
comments. All statements end with a semicolon. Many state - ments can contain substatements, which are also terminated with a semi
- colon.
- The following statements are supported:
- options specifies various options and parameters for
- the operation
of devd(8).
- attach specifies various matching criteria and actions
- to perform
- when a newly attached device matches said cri
- teria.
- detach specifies various matching criteria and actions
- to perform
- when a newly detached device matches said cri
- teria.
- nomatch specifies various matching criteria and actions
- to perform
- when no device driver currently loaded in the
- kernel claims
a (new) device. - Statements may occur in any order in the configuration file,
- and may be
repeated as often as required. Further details on the syn - tax and meaning
of each statement and their substatements are explained be - low.
- Comments may appear anywhere that whitespace may appear in a
- configuration file. To appeal to programmers of all kinds, they can
- be written in
C, C++, or shell/Perl constructs. - C-style comments start with the two characters `/*' (slash,
- star) and end
with `*/' (star, slash). Because they are completely delim - ited with
these characters, they can be used to comment only a portion - of a line or
to span multiple lines. - C-style comments cannot be nested. For example, the follow
- ing is not
valid because the entire comment ends with the first `*/':
/* This is the start of a comment.This is still part of the comment.- /* This is an incorrect attempt at nesting a comment.
- */
This is no longer in any comment. */
- C++-style comments start with the two characters `//'
- (slash, slash) and
continue to the end of the physical line. They cannot be - continued
across multiple physical lines; to have one logical comment - span multiple
lines, each line must use the `//' pair. For example:
// This is the start of a comment. The next line
// is a new comment, even though it is logically
// part of the previous comment.
FILES
/etc/devd.conf The devd(8) configuration file.
SEE ALSO
- devd(8)
- BSD October 17, 2002