Manual Pages for UNIX Operating System command usage for man hal-device

System Administration Commands                     hal-device(1M)



NAME
     hal-device - manage HAL devices

SYNOPSIS
     hal-device  [-h] [--a udi |  --r udi]


DESCRIPTION
     The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) provides a view of  the
     various  hardware  attached to a system. The hal-device com-
     mand enables you to manage devices that conform to  the  HAL
     standard.  Specifically, hal-device lets you add or remove a
     device to or from the HAL global device list. Device proper-
     ties are read from stdin in lshal(1M) syntax.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -a, --add udi       Add device specified by Universal Device
                         Identifier  udi  to  HAL's global device
                         list.


     -h                  Display usage information.


     -r, --remove udi    Remove  device  specified  by  Universal
                         Device  Identifier udi from HAL's global
                         device list.


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | service/hal                 |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Volatile                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)







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