X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=91698d5380aaac6cc7fb5e25fc35c7fcfca19c63;hp=52bfa6a9910cd127b407b0ebac629e8f6dd9d974;hb=3157c02d2bb2753b7d5bebd54dba7262bafcc88c;hpb=5f03ed8a56d308af72db8a48ab66ed68667af2c6 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 52bfa6a99..91698d538 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,60 @@ +udev 142 +======== +Bugfixes. + +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. + 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. + +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. + +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 +rules file. + +udev 141 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The processed udev events get send back to the netlink socket. Libudev +provides access to these events. This is work-in-progress, to replace +the DeviceKit daemon functionality directly with libudev. There are +upcoming kernel changes to allow non-root users to subcribe to these +events. + +udev 140 +======== +Bugfixes. + +"udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for, +instead of waiting for "all" events. + +udev 139 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed +during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev +rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished +event handling the watch is restored. + +udev 138 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch". +If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur. +/dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated. + udev 137 ======== Bugfixes. @@ -6,7 +63,8 @@ The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks are always updated with a test run now. The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user -and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems). +and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems) or --resolve-names=late to +lookup user and groups every time events are handled. udev 136 ========