X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ac44d7a77de3065eb8a61eeb9e5df33bdfe51e53;hb=97f48a8c67520bf1a58f1516ea3f5953ef399a96;hp=e743b11844e9d68bc78a93bc733641ea1456f537;hpb=f07996885dab45102492d7f16e7e2997e264c725;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e743b1184..ac44d7a77 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,22 +1,31 @@ +udev 143 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is +no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The queue can be accessed with +udevadm settle and libudedv. + udev 142 ======== Bugfixes. -The program vol_id is removed from the repository and blkid from the -latest util-linux-ng package replaces it. Persisten disk links for -label and uuid depend on the util-linux-ng version of blkid now. Older -versions can not be used with udev. +The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the +repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng +package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the +util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid +can not be used with udev. Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters match on the : properties of the device. This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current -users over to directly use libudev, or for higher-level services use the -specialized D-Bus interface of a DeviceKit service. +users over to directly use libudev. Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might -change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported interface -are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen soon. +eventually change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported +interface are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen +soon. A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at