systemd-udevd.service, systemd-udevd-control.socket, systemd-udevd-kernel.socket, systemd-udevd — Device event managing daemon
systemd-udevd.service
systemd-udevd-control.socket
systemd-udevd-kernel.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd [--daemon] [--debug] [--children-max=] [--exec-delay=] [--event-timeout=] [--resolve-names=early|late|never] [--version] [--help]
systemd-udevd listens to kernel uevents. For every event, systemd-udevd executes matching instructions specified in udev rules. See udev(7).
The behavior of the daemon can be configured using udev.conf(5), its command line options, environment variables, and on the kernel command line, or changed dynamically with udevadm control.
-d, --daemon¶Detach and run in the background.
-D, --debug¶Print debug messages to standard error.
-c, --children-max=¶Limit the number of events executed in parallel.
-e, --exec-delay=¶Delay the execution of each RUN{
parameter by the given number of seconds. This option
might be useful when debugging system crashes during
coldplug caused by loading non-working kernel
modules.program}
-t, --event-timeout=¶Set the number of seconds to wait for events to finish. After this time, the event will be terminated. The default is 180 seconds.
-s, --timeout-signal=¶Set the signal which systemd-udevd will send to
forked off processes after reaching event timeout. The setting can be overridden
at boot time with the kernel command line option
udev.timeout_signal=. Setting to SIGABRT
may be helpful in order to debug worker timeouts. Defaults to
SIGKILL. Note that setting the option on the command line
overrides the setting from the configuration file.
-N, --resolve-names=¶Specify when systemd-udevd should resolve names of users and groups.
When set to early (the default), names will be
resolved when the rules are parsed. When set to
late, names will be resolved for every event.
When set to never, names will never be resolved
and all devices will be owned by root.
-h, --help¶--version¶Parameters prefixed with "rd." will be read when systemd-udevd is used in an initrd, those without will be processed both in the initrd and on the host.
udev.log_level=, rd.udev.log_level=¶Set the log level.
udev.children_max=, rd.udev.children_max=¶Limit the number of events executed in parallel.
udev.exec_delay=, rd.udev.exec_delay=¶Delay the execution of each RUN{ parameter by the given
number of seconds. This option might be useful when
debugging system crashes during coldplug caused by loading
non-working kernel modules.program}
udev.event_timeout=, rd.udev.event_timeout=¶Wait for events to finish up to the given number of seconds. This option might be useful if events are terminated due to kernel drivers taking too long to initialize.
udev.timeout_signal=, rd.udev.timeout_signal=¶Specifies a signal that systemd-udevd will send to
workers on timeout. Note that kernel command line option overrides both the
setting in the configuration file and the one on the program command line.
udev.blockdev_read_only, rd.udev.blockdev_read_only¶If specified, mark all physical block devices read-only as they appear. Synthetic block devices (such as loopback block devices or device mapper devices) are left as they are. This is useful to guarantee that the contents of physical block devices remains unmodified during runtime, for example to implement fully stateless systems, for testing or for recovery situations where corrupted file systems shall not be corrupted further through accidental modification.
A block device may be marked writable again by issuing the blockdev --setrw command, see blockdev(8) for details.
net.ifnames=¶Network interfaces are renamed to give them predictable names when possible. It is enabled by default; specifying 0 disables it.
net.naming_scheme=¶Network interfaces are renamed to give them predictable names when possible (unless
net.ifnames=0 is specified, see above). With this kernel command line option it
is possible to pick a specific version of this algorithm and override the default chosen at
compilation time. Expects one of the naming scheme identifiers listed in
systemd.net-naming-scheme(7),
or "latest" to select the latest scheme known (to this particular version of
systemd-udevd.service).
Note that selecting a specific scheme is not sufficient to fully stabilize interface naming:
the naming is generally derived from driver attributes exposed by the kernel. As the kernel is
updated, previously missing attributes systemd-udevd.service is checking might
appear, which affects older name derivation algorithms, too.
net.ifname_policy=policy1[,policy2,…][,MAC]¶Specifies naming policies applied when renaming network interfaces. Takes a list of
policies and an optional MAC address separated with comma. Each policy value must be one of
the policies understood by the NamePolicy= setting in .link files, e.g.
"onboard" or "path". See
systemd.link(5)
for more details. When the MAC address is specified, the policies are applied to the
interface which has the address. When no MAC address is specified, the policies are applied
to all interfaces. This kernel command line argument can be specified multiple times.
This argument is not directly read by systemd-udevd, but is instead
converted to a .link file by
systemd-network-generator.service(8).
For this argument to take effect, systemd-network-generator.service must be
enabled.
Example:
net.ifname_policy=keep,kernel,path,slot,onboard,01:23:45:67:89:ab net.ifname_policy=keep,kernel,path,slot,onboard,mac
This is mostly equivalent to creating the following .link files:
# 91-name-policy-with-mac.link [Match] MACAddress=01:23:45:67:89:ab [Link] NamePolicy=keep kernel path slot onboard AlternativeNamePolicy=path slot onboard
and
# 92-name-policy-for-all.link [Match] OriginalName=* [Link] NamePolicy=keep kernel path slot onboard mac AlternativeNamePolicy=path slot onboard mac