Bugfixes.
Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
-pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer
-cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, a few
-worker processes stay around for future events, all others get cleaned up.
+the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because
+cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon.
+After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for
+future events, all others get cleaned up.
To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
-Also inotify support is required now to run udev.
+Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev.
The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is
no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be
Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on,
incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version.
+To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will
+build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy
+is available here:
+ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
+
udev 142
========
Bugfixes.