From 6cae41a4e63510cdcf3af1153d6e8300435e1838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Hubbs Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:49:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- etc/rc.conf.in | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file 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