+udev 154
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Udev now gradually starts to pass control over the primary device nodes
+and their names to the kernel, and will in the end only manage the
+permissions of the node, and possibly create additional symlinks.
+As a first step NAME="" will be ignored, and NAME= setings with names
+other than the kernel provided name will result in a logged warning.
+Kernels that don't provide device names, or devtmpfs is not used, will
+still work as they did before, but it is strongly recommended to use
+only the same names for the primary device node as the recent kernel
+provides for all devices.
+
+udev 153
+========
+Fix broken firmware loader search path.
+
+udev 152
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+"udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now instead of "add"
+events. The "udev boot script" might need to add "--action=add" to
+the trigger command if not already there, in case the initial coldplug
+events are expected as "add" events.
+
+The option "all_partitons" was removed from udev. This should not be
+needed for usual hardware. Udev can not safely make assumptions
+about non-existing partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no
+longer provide this unreliable and unsafe option.
+
+The option "ignore_remove" was removed from udev. With devtmpfs
+udev passed control over device nodes to the kernel. This option
+should not be needed, or can not work as advertised. Neither
+udev nor the kernel will remove device nodes which are copied from
+the /lib/udev/devices/ directory.
+
+All "add|change" matches are replaced by "!remove" in the rules and
+in the udev logic. All types of events will update possible symlinks
+and permissions, only "remove" is handled special now.
+
+The modem modeswitch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch
+program should be used instead.
+
+New and fixed keymaps.
+
+udev 151
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+udev 150
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Kernels with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y are not supported since a while. Many users
+depend on the current sysfs layout and the information not available in the
+deprecated layout. All remaining support for the deprecated sysfs layout is
+removed now.
+
+udev 149
+========
+Fix for a possible endless loop in the new input_id program.
+
+udev 148
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The option "ignore_device" does no longer exist. There is no way to
+ignore an event, as libudev events can not be suppressed by rules.
+It only prevented RUN keys from being executed, which results in an
+inconsistent behavior in current setups.
+
+BUS=, SYSFS{}=, ID= are long deprecated and should be SUBSYSTEM(S)=,
+ATTR(S){}=, KERNEL(S)=. It will cause a warning once for every rule
+file from now on.
+
+The support for the deprecated IDE devices has been removed from the
+default set of rules. Distros who still care about non-libata drivers
+need to add the rules to the compat rules file.
+
+The ID_CLASS property on input devices has been replaced by the more accurate
+set of flags ID_INPUT_{KEYBOARD,KEY,MOUSE,TOUCHPAD,TABLET,JOYSTICK}. These are
+determined by the new "input_id" prober now. Some devices, such as touchpads,
+can have several classes. So if you previously had custom udev rules which e. g.
+checked for ENV{ID_CLASS}=="kbd", you need to replace this with
+ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=="?*".
+
+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 0.4.1 is
+required now.
+
+The option "last_rule" does no longer exist. Its use breaks too many
+things which expect to be run from independent later rules, and is an idication
+that something needs to be fixed properly instead.
+
+The gudev API is no longer marked as experimental,
+G_UDEV_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE is no longer needed. The gudev introspection
+is enabled by default now. Various projects already depend on introspection
+information to bind dynamic languages to the gudev interfaces.
+
+udev 146
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+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 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.
+
+udev 145
+========
+Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are
+changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules.
+
+udev 144
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the
+name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be
+exported with the event.
+
+Firmware files are looked up in:
+ /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r)
+ /lib/firmware/updates
+ /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)
+ /lib/firmware"
+now.
+
+ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata.
+ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices.
+
+udev 143
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The configure options have changed because another library needs to be
+installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix,
+libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in
+the README file.
+
+Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
+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 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
+accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv.
+
+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/
+
+The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main
+udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and
+they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras.
+
udev 142
========
Bugfixes.
-The udev daemon will now create /dev/null, /dev/console, /dev/kmsg at
-startup, if they don't exist already.
+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 <subsytem>:<devtype> 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
-startup.
+startup. It should still be able to boot-up, but advanced rules and system
+services which depend on the information not available in the old sysfs
+format will fail to work correctly.
DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. In case older kernels
need to be supported, the old shell script should be added to a compat
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