SYSTEMD.DEVICE(5)						  systemd.device						 SYSTEMD.DEVICE(5)

NAME

       systemd.device - Device unit configuration

SYNOPSIS

       device.device

DESCRIPTION

       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).

THE UDEV DATABASE

       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=
	   Adds dependencies of type Wants from the device unit to all listed units. This 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 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 device 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 the moment it shows up 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.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemctl(8), systemd.unit(5), udev(7), systemd.directives(7)

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