-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.
+These things need to be done, or would be nice to have:
-greg k-h
-greg@kroah.com
+ o 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 at that time.
+These things are deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future
+udev version:
+
+ o remove broken %e enumeration
+ (simple enumerations can't work and should go)
+
+ o remove MODALIAS + $modalias
+ (ENV{MODALIAS}, $env{MODALIAS}, $sysfs{modalias} will do it)
+
+ o remove udevsend, udevstart and their man pages
+ (we rely on the kernel "uevent" triggers of kernel 2.6.15 and no longer
+ want to guess event properties from sysfs like udevstart is doing it)
-- 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...
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