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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTOMATIC DEPENDENCIES | THE UDEV DATABASE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
SYSTEMD.DEVICE(5) systemd.device SYSTEMD.DEVICE(5)
systemd.device - Device unit configuration
device.device
A unit configuration file whose name ends in ".device" encodes
information about a device unit as exposed in the sysfs/udev(7)
device tree.
This unit type has no specific options. See systemd.unit(5) for the
common options of all unit configuration files. The common
configuration items are configured in the generic "[Unit]" and
"[Install]" sections. A separate "[Device]" section does not exist,
since no device-specific options may be configured.
systemd will dynamically create device units for all kernel devices
that are marked with the "systemd" udev tag (by default all block and
network devices, and a few others). This may be used to define
dependencies between devices and other units. To tag a udev device,
use "TAG+="systemd"" in the udev rules file, see udev(7) for details.
Device units are named after the /sys and /dev paths they control.
Example: the device /dev/sda5 is exposed in systemd as
dev-sda5.device. For details about the escaping logic used to convert
a file system path to a unit name see systemd.unit(5).
Many unit types automatically acquire dependencies on device units of
devices they require. For example, .socket unit acquire dependencies
on the device units of the network interface specified in
BindToDevice=. Similar, swap and mount units acquire dependencies on
the units encapsulating their backing block devices.
The settings of device units may either be configured via unit files,
or directly from the udev database (which is recommended). The
following udev device properties are understood by systemd:
SYSTEMD_WANTS=, SYSTEMD_USER_WANTS=
Adds dependencies of type Wants from the device unit to all
listed units. The first form is used by the system systemd
instance, the second by user systemd instances. Those settings
may be used to activate arbitrary units when a specific device
becomes available.
Note that this and the other tags are not taken into account
unless the device is tagged with the "systemd" string in the udev
database, because otherwise the device is not exposed as a
systemd unit (see above).
Note that systemd will only act on Wants dependencies when a
device first becomes active. It will not act on them if they are
added to devices that are already active. Use SYSTEMD_READY= (see
below) to influence on which udev event to trigger the
dependencies.
SYSTEMD_ALIAS=
Adds an additional alias name to the device unit. This must be an
absolute path that is automatically transformed into a unit name.
(See above.)
SYSTEMD_READY=
If set to 0, systemd will consider this device unplugged even if
it shows up in the udev tree. If this property is unset or set to
1, the device will be considered plugged if it is visible in the
udev tree. This property has no influence on the behavior when a
device disappears from the udev tree.
This option is useful to support devices that initially show up
in an uninitialized state in the tree, and for which a "changed"
event is generated the moment they are fully set up. Note that
SYSTEMD_WANTS= (see above) is not acted on as long as
SYSTEMD_READY=0 is set for a device.
ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=, ID_MODEL=
If set, this property is used as description string for the
device unit.
systemd(1), systemctl(1), systemd.unit(5), udev(7),
systemd.directives(7)
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Pages that refer to this page: systemd(1), systemd.mount(5), systemd.socket(5), systemd.swap(5), systemd.unit(5), daemon(7), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7)