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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2021-05-26 10:54:57 +0200
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2021-05-26 12:46:51 +0100
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man: document udevadm info output prefixes
Fixes: #19663
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<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
</variablelist>
+
+ <para>The generated output shows the current device database entry in a terse format. Each line shown
+ is prefixed with one of the following characters:</para>
+
+ <table>
+ <title><command>udevadm info</command> output prefixes</title>
+ <tgroup cols='2' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+ <colspec colname="prefix" />
+ <colspec colname="meaning" />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Prefix</entry>
+ <entry>Meaning</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>P:</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Device path in <filename>/sys/</filename></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>N:</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Kernel device node name</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>L:</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Device node symlink priority</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>S:</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Device node symlink</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>E:</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Device property</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
</refsect2>
<refsect2><title>udevadm trigger