4 Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
6 Enable passing additional variables for synthetic uevents that
7 are generated by writing /sys/.../uevent file.
9 Recognized extended format is ACTION [UUID [KEY=VALUE ...].
11 The ACTION is compulsory - it is the name of the uevent action
12 ("add", "change", "remove"). There is no change compared to
13 previous functionality here. The rest of the extended format
16 You need to pass UUID first before any KEY=VALUE pairs.
17 The UUID must be in "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
18 format where 'x' is a hex digit. The UUID is considered to be
19 a transaction identifier so it's possible to use the same UUID
20 value for one or more synthetic uevents in which case we
21 logically group these uevents together for any userspace
22 listeners. The UUID value appears in uevent as
23 "SYNTH_UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" environment
26 If UUID is not passed in, the generated synthetic uevent gains
27 "SYNTH_UUID=0" environment variable automatically.
29 The KEY=VALUE pairs can contain alphanumeric characters only.
30 It's possible to define zero or more pairs - each pair is then
31 delimited by a space character ' '. Each pair appears in
32 synthetic uevent as "SYNTH_ARG_KEY=VALUE". That means the KEY
33 name gains "SYNTH_ARG_" prefix to avoid possible collisions
34 with existing variables.
36 Example of valid sequence written to the uevent file:
38 add fe4d7c9d-b8c6-4a70-9ef1-3d8a58d18eed A=1 B=abc
40 This generates synthetic uevent including these variables:
45 SYNTH_UUID=fe4d7c9d-b8c6-4a70-9ef1-3d8a58d18eed
47 udev, userspace tools generating synthetic uevents