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| author |   Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu> | 2013-02-09 21:18:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu> | 2013-02-09 21:18:12 +0100 |
| commit | 6e0d8fb9ddb59ceef90c81502876c9b372da8926 (patch) | |
| tree | 213e8de4c4bdc2ba4684950d4b2749d399a28d4e | |
| parent | build: make sure to update the hwdb binary file on install. (diff) | |
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Add documentation about udev support.
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@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ there are new files available. You can download the tags in form of tarballs directly from [the GitHub repository](https://github.com/gentoo/hwids). +udev +---- + +Since version 196 and later, `udev` does not consume the hwid files +directly. Instead, it only access a specific binary representation, +which is further generated starting from intermediate representations. + +The Makefile will accept a `UDEV=yes` parameter to build and install +these representations. Furthermore upon install, the binary +representation will also be generated. + License ------- |