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man: say that .device units need udev

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This was implied by the need to tag them with "systemd", but let's make this
obvious, since it's rather easy to trip over this as a user.

Inspired by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941458.
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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2021-03-22 21:45:04 +01:00
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<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in
<literal>.device</literal> encodes information about a device unit
as exposed in the
sysfs/<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
device tree.</para>
<para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in <literal>.device</literal> encodes information about a
device unit as exposed in the
sysfs/<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> device
tree. This may be used to define dependencies between devices and other units.</para>
<para>This unit type has no specific options. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
@ -40,14 +39,10 @@
sections. A separate [Device] section does not
exist, since no device-specific options may be configured.</para>
<para>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 <literal>TAG+="systemd"</literal> in the udev
rules file, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details.</para>
<para>systemd will dynamically create device units for all kernel devices that are marked with the
<literal>systemd</literal> udev tag (by default all block and network devices, and a few others). Note
that <emphasis>if <filename>systemd-udev.service</filename> is not running, no device units will be
available (for example in a typical container)</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Device units are named after the <filename>/sys/</filename>
and <filename>/dev/</filename> paths they control. Example: the
@ -57,6 +52,10 @@
name see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>To tag a udev device, use <literal>TAG+="systemd"</literal> in the udev rules file, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udev</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> for details.
</para>
<para>Device units will be reloaded by systemd whenever the
corresponding device generates a <literal>changed</literal> event.
Other units can use <varname>ReloadPropagatedFrom=</varname> to react