X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=09d29c8b0a28a1cafc4403a43fb363796449eca0;hp=ee77d845be3733975d166c473bbaf4845bf927b6;hb=c5e6eaa002d457af9b5530a29edd514d5826f094;hpb=28ce66de1750320d7f09547d8910d42ae580fe5e diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index ee77d845b..09d29c8b0 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,184 @@ +udev 065 +======== +We can use socket communication now to pass events from udev to +other programs: + RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" +will pass the whole udev event to the HAL daemon without the need +for a forked helper. (See ChangeLog for udevmonitor, as an example) + +udev 064 +======== +Mostly bugfixes and see ChangeLog. + +The test for the existence of an environment value should be +switched from: + ENV{KEY}=="*" to ENV{KEY}=="?*" +cause "*" will not fail anymore, if the key does not exist or +is empty. + +udev 063 +======== +Bugfixes and a few tweaks described in the ChangeLog. + +udev 062 +======== +Mostly a Bugfix release. + +Added WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="" to be able to fight against the sysfs +timing with custom rules. + +udev 061 +======== +We changed the internal rule storage format. Our large rule files took +2 MB of RAM, with the change we are down to 99kB. + +If the device-node has been created with default name and no symlink or +options are to remenber, it is not longer stored in the udevdb. HAL will +need to be updated to work correctly with that change. + +To overrride optimization flags, OPTFLAGS may be used now. + +udev 060 +======== +Bugfix release. + +udev 059 +======== +Major changes happened with this release. The goal is to take over the +complete kernel-event handling and provide a more efficient way to dispatch +kernel events. Replacing most of the current shell script logic and the +kernel forked helper with a netlink-daemon and a rule-based event handling. + +o udevd listens to netlink events now. The first valid netlink event + will make udevd ignore any message from udevsend that contains a + SEQNUM, to avoid duplicate events. The forked events can be disabled + with: + echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug + For full support, the broken input-subsytem needs to be fixed, not to + bypass the driver core. + +o /etc/dev.d/ + /etc/hotplug.d/ directory multiplexing is completely + removed from udev itself and must be emulated by calling small + helper binaries provided in the extras folder: + make EXTRAS=extras/run_directory/ + will build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd, which can be called + from a rule if needed: + RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd" + The recommended way to handle this is to convert all the calls from + the directories to explicit udev rules and get completely rid of the + multiplexing. (To catch a ttyUSB event, you now no longer need to + fork and exit 300 tty script instances you are not interested in, it + is just one rule that matches exactly the device.) + +o udev handles now _all_ events not just events for class and block + devices, this way it is possible to control the complete event + behavior with udev rules. Especially useful for rules like: + ACTION="add", DEVPATH="/devices/*", MODALIAS=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias" + +o As used in the modalias rule, udev supports now textual + substitution placeholder along with the usual format chars. This + needs to be documented, for now it's only visible in udev_rules_parse.c. + +o The rule keys support now more operations. This is documented in the + man page. It is possible to add values to list-keys like the SYMLINK + and RUN list with KEY+="value" and to clear the list by assigning KEY="". + Also "final"-assignments are supported by using KEY:="value", which will + prevent changing the key by any later rule. + +o kernel 2.6.12 has the "detached_state" attribute removed from + sysfs, which was used to recognize sysfs population. We switched that + to wait for the "bus" link, which is only available in kernels after 2.6.11. + Running this udev version on older kernels may cause a short delay for + some events. + +o To provide infrastructure for persistent device naming, the id programs: + scsi_id, vol_id (former udev_volume_id), and ata_id (new) are able now + to export the probed data in environment key format: + pim:~ # /sbin/ata_id --export /dev/hda + ID_MODEL=HTS726060M9AT00 + ID_SERIAL=MRH401M4G6UM9B + ID_REVISION=MH4OA6BA + + The following rules: + KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", IMPORT="/sbin/ata_id --export $tempnode" + KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_MODEL}_$env{ID_SERIAL}" + + Will create: + kay@pim:~> tree /dev/disk + /dev/disk + |-- by-id + | |-- HTS726060M9AT00_MRH401M4G6UM9B -> ../../hda + | `-- IBM-Memory_Key -> ../../sda + |-- by-label + | |-- swap -> ../../hda1 + | |-- date -> ../../sda1 + | `-- home -> ../../hda3 + `-- by-uuid + |-- 2E08712B0870F2E7 -> ../../hda3 + |-- 9352cfef-7687-47bc-a2a3-34cf136f72e1 -> ../../hda1 + |-- E845-7A89 -> ../../sda1 + `-- b2a61681-3812-4f13-a4ff-920d70604299 -> ../../hda2 + + The IMPORT= operation will import these keys in the environment and make + it available for later PROGRAM= and RUN= executed programs. The keys are + also stored in the udevdb and can be queried from there with one of the + next udev versions. + +o A few binaries are silently added to the repository, which can be used + to replay kernel events from initramfs instead of using coldplug. udevd + can be instructed now to queue-up events while the stored events from + initramfs are filled into the udevd-queue. This code is still under + development and there is no documentation now besides the code itself. + The additional binaries get compiled, but are not installed by default. + +o There is also a temporary fix for a performance problem where too many + events happen in parallel and every event needs to parse the rules. + udev can now read precompiled rules stored on disk. This is likely to be + replaced by a more elegant solution in a future udev version. + +udev 058 +======== +With kernel version 2.6.12, the sysfs file "detached_state" was removed. +Fix for libsysfs not to expect this file was added. + +udev 057 +======== +All rules are applied now, but only the first matching rule with a NAME-key +will be applied. All later rules with NAME-key are completely ignored. This +way system supplied symlinks or permissions gets applied to user-defined +naming rules. + +Note: +Please check your rules setup, if you may need to add OPTIONS="last_rule" +to some rules, to keep the old behavior. + +The rules are read on "remove"-events too. That makes is possible to match +with keys that are available on remove (KERNEL, SUBSYSTEM, ID, ENV, ...) to +instruct udev to ignore an event (OPTIONS="ignore_device"). +The new ACTION-key may be used to let a rule act only at a "remove"-event. + +The new RUN-key supports rule-based execution of programs after device-node +handling. This is meant as a general replacement for the dev.d/-directories +to give fine grained control over the execution of programs. + +The %s{}-sysfs format char replacement values are searched at any of the +devices in the device chain now, not only at the class-device. + +We support log priority levels now. The value udev_log in udev.conf is used +to determine what is printed to syslog. This makes it possible to +run a version with compiled-in debug messages in a production environment +which is sometimes needed to find a bug. +It is still possible to supress the inclusion of _any_ syslog usage with +USE_LOG=false to create the smallest possible binaries if needed. +The configured udev_log value can be overridden with the environment variable +UDEV_LOG. + +udev 056 +======== +Possible use of a system-wide klibc: + make USE_KLIBC=true KLCC=/usr/bin/klcc all +will link against an external klibc and our own version will be ignored. + udev 055 ======== We support an unlimited count of symlinks now. @@ -5,16 +186,20 @@ We support an unlimited count of symlinks now. If USE_STATIC=true is passed to a glibc build, we link statically and use a built-in userdb parser to resolve user and group names. -THE PLACE= key is gone. It can be replaced by an ID= for a long time, cause +The PLACE= key is gone. It can be replaced by an ID= for a long time, cause we walk up the chain of physical devices to find a match. The KEY="" format supports '=', '==', '!=,' , '+=' now. This makes it -easier to skip certain devices without composing rules with weird character -class negations like: +easy to skip certain attribute matches without composing rules with weird +character class negations like: KERNEL="[!s][!c][!d]*" - -this can be replaced by: +this can now be replaced with: KERNEL!="scd*" +The current simple '=' is still supported, and should work as it does today, +but existing rules should be converted if possible, to be better readable. + +We have new ENV{}== key now, to match against a maximum of 5 environment +variables. -The simple '=' is still supported, but the rules should be converted if -possible, to be better human-readable. +udevstart is its own binary again, cause we don't need co carry this araound +with every forked event.