X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ff6d932052bd1e8b40b43460382f5879e304028d;hb=676d294c23cf999ac7d192b058476f91242550c0;hp=0f41c18bbe293879a9fe2aa623c1563fcca52197;hpb=f7c5b04f69e004912327f082be8645b65bb1ff5d;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0f41c18bb..ff6d93205 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,25 @@ +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. + +Symlinks to udevadm with the old command names are no longer resolved to +the udevadm commands. + udev 146 ======== Bugfixes. @@ -6,7 +28,7 @@ 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 -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.