libudev: allow to store negative values in the udev database

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+udev 147
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+To support DEVPATH strings larger than the maximum file name length, the
+private udev database format has changed. If some software still reads the
+private files in /dev/.udev/, which it shouldn't, now it's time to fix it.
+Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev
+is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without
+prior notice.
+
+Multiple devices claiming the same names in /dev are limited to symlinks
+only now. Mixing identical symlink names and node names is not supported.
+This reduces the amount of data in the database significantly.
+
+NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous.
+It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed
+from all rules.
+
+Most NAME= instructions got removed. Kernel 2.6.31 supplies the needed names
+if they are not the default. To support older kernels, the NAME= rules need to
+be added to the compat rules file.
+
+Symlinks to udevadm with the old command names are no longer resolved to
+the udevadm commands.
+
+The udev-acl tool got adopted to changes in ConsoleKit. Version 0.4.11 is
+required now.
+

 udev 146
 ========
 Bugfixes.
 udev 146
 ========
 Bugfixes.


@@ -6,7 +35,7 @@ The udevadm trigger "--retry-failed" option, which is replaced since quite
 a while by "--type=failed" is removed.
 
 The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN
 a while by "--type=failed" is removed.
 
 The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN

-option "ignore_error" is replaces by a "record_failed" option, and the
+option "ignore_error" is replaced by a "fail_event_on_error" option, and the

 default is not to track any failing RUN executions.
 
 New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated.
 default is not to track any failing RUN executions.
 
 New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated.