</title>
<para>Request device events from the kernel. Primarily used to replay events at system coldplug time.</para>
- <para>Takes a device specification as a positional argument. See the description of <command>info</command>
+ <para>Takes device specifications as positional arguments. See the description of <command>info</command>
above.</para>
<variablelist>
<term><option>--name-match=<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for devices with a matching device path. When this option is specified more than once,
- the last <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is used.</para>
+ then each matching result is ORed, that is, all specified devices are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--parent-match=<replaceable>SYSPATH</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Trigger events for all children of a given device. When this option is specified more than once,
- the last <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is used.</para>
+ then each matching result is ORed, that is, all children of each specified device are triggered.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
</variablelist>
- <para>In addition, an optional positional argument can be used
- to specify device name or sys path. It must start with
+ <para>In addition, optional positional arguments can be used
+ to specify device names or sys paths. They must start with
<filename>/dev</filename> or <filename>/sys</filename>
respectively.</para>
</refsect2>
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to open the device '%s': %m", optarg);
- r = sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(e, dev);
+ r = device_enumerator_add_match_parent_incremental(e, dev);
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add parent match '%s': %m", optarg);
break;
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to open the device '%s': %m", optarg);
- r = sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(e, dev);
+ r = device_enumerator_add_match_parent_incremental(e, dev);
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add parent match '%s': %m", optarg);
break;
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to open the device '%s': %m", argv[optind]);
- r = sd_device_enumerator_add_match_parent(e, dev);
+ r = device_enumerator_add_match_parent_incremental(e, dev);
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to add parent match '%s': %m", argv[optind]);
}