This is a short list of things that needs to be done. They are in no specific
-order. I will gladly accept patches for any of these items, or any other stuff
-people offer up.
+order. We will gladly accept patches for any of these items:
-greg k-h
-greg@kroah.com
+- More documentation:
+ Allmost all extras/*_id/ programs don't have a man page
+ some details are missing in the udev man pages.
+- Completely replace the built-in wait_for_sysfs stuff in udev_sysfs.c
+ by rules using the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS key.
+
+- Log the relationship of the kernel name and the persistent disk name
+ to syslog, so any error logged from the kernel can be associated with
+ any of the links.
+
+- Do generic early boot logic:
+ initramfs, pivot-root, cover coldplug or event replay, etc...
+
+- Keep the distro rules in etc/ up-to-date.
-- more documentation (can never have too much.)
-- better partition support (it's a hack right now, maybe new libsysfs changes
- can help out a lot here.)
-- option to always add all partitions. This is needed to properly handle
- devices with removable media.
-- install the proper init.d script based on the distro we are running on.
-- persuade the distro packagers to submit their changes (or just steal them
- if we can find them...)
-- allow database to be queried by other programs
-- split program into two pieces (daemon and helper that sends events to it).
- This will allow us to keep track of sequences, and lots of other needed
- stuff.
-- keep track of current permissions on devices when daemon shuts down.
-- better permission handling
-- create kernel name to devfs name config file so that all of the devfs users
- will have an upgrade path.
-- do early boot logic (putting udev into initramfs, handle pivot-root,
- etc.)
-- lots of other stuff...
-- actually use the BUS= value to determine where the LABEL rule should look
- (right now it's ignored, and we only look in the current sysfs directory.)
- This is needed, for example, to look at the usb device's serial number of a
- usb-storage device, instead of the scsi device's sysfs directory for the
- serial number.