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authorWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2015-10-21 12:49:00 -0500
committerWilliam Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>2015-10-21 12:49:00 -0500
commit6cae41a4e63510cdcf3af1153d6e8300435e1838 (patch)
tree4301c738f668f555fbf7457156d2dfbff9ca79a2 /etc
parent960881fcfe974178c0846a816663a258cdd488cc (diff)
etc/rc.conf: Clean up documentation for rc_hotplug
X-Gentoo-Bug: 554540 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554540
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r--etc/rc.conf.in19
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/etc/rc.conf.in b/etc/rc.conf.in
index 1b78c885..3159165d 100644
--- a/etc/rc.conf.in
+++ b/etc/rc.conf.in
@@ -29,17 +29,20 @@
# come up.
#rc_depend_strict="YES"
-# rc_hotplug is a list of services that we allow to be hotplugged.
-# By default we do not allow hotplugging.
+# rc_hotplug controls which services we allow to be hotplugged.
# A hotplugged service is one started by a dynamic dev manager when a matching
# hardware device is found.
-# This service is intrinsically included in the boot runlevel.
-# To disable services, prefix with a !
+# Hotplugged services appear in the "hotplugged" runlevel.
+# If rc_hotplug is set to any value, we compare the name of this service
+# to every pattern in the value, from left to right, and we allow the
+# service to be hotplugged if it matches a pattern, or if it matches no
+# patterns. Patterns can include shell wildcards.
+# To disable services from being hotplugged, prefix patterns with "!".
+#If rc_hotplug is not set or is empty, all hotplugging is disabled.
# Example - rc_hotplug="net.wlan !net.*"
-# This allows net.wlan and any service not matching net.* to be plugged.
-# Example - rc_hotplug="*"
-# This allows all services to be hotplugged
-#rc_hotplug="*"
+# This allows net.wlan and any service not matching net.* to be hotplugged.
+# Example - rc_hotplug="!net.*"
+# This allows services that do not match "net.*" to be hotplugged.
# rc_logger launches a logging daemon to log the entire rc process to
# /var/log/rc.log