From cea56bb80551290c65f7717f06e849b9066c8761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jhb Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:27:46 +0000 Subject: Try to reword things a bit more to make it clearer. Reviewed by: imp --- sbin/devd/devd.8 | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'sbin/devd') diff --git a/sbin/devd/devd.8 b/sbin/devd/devd.8 index 871c90e..ebf596e 100644 --- a/sbin/devd/devd.8 +++ b/sbin/devd/devd.8 @@ -51,10 +51,20 @@ becoming a daemon. is a system daemon that runs in the background all the time. Whenever a device is added to or removed from the device tree, .Nm -will execute specified actions. -In addition, when a device without a suitable driver loaded enters the system, +will execute actions specified in +.Xr devd.conf 5 . +For example, .Nm -will perform a different specified action. +might execute +.Xr dhclient 8 +when an ethernet adapter is added to the system and kill the +.Xr dhclient 8 +instance when the same adapter is removed. +Another example would be for +.Nm +to use a table to locate and load via +.Xr kldload 8 +the proper driver for an unrecognized device that is added to the system. .Pp .Nm hooks into the -- cgit v1.1