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Try to reword things a bit more to make it clearer.

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John Baldwin 2002-11-13 20:27:46 +00:00
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@ -51,10 +51,20 @@ becoming a daemon.
is a system daemon that runs in the background all the time.
Whenever a device is added to or removed from the device tree,
.Nm
will execute specified actions.
In addition, when a device without a suitable driver loaded enters the system,
will execute actions specified in
.Xr devd.conf 5 .
For example,
.Nm
will perform a different specified action.
might execute
.Xr dhclient 8
when an ethernet adapter is added to the system and kill the
.Xr dhclient 8
instance when the same adapter is removed.
Another example would be for
.Nm
to use a table to locate and load via
.Xr kldload 8
the proper driver for an unrecognized device that is added to the system.
.Pp
.Nm
hooks into the