X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=65e3739fa4f572475c59fe3570e89aeb3ed9a1d1;hp=c8e7baa4db48fb89c567bda8c1130b8b7e8a7331;hb=876fa61d68140f4fc9da9b98a22823587b495e80;hpb=b3e8c12b2d18897d6d9220607fc32ee18e5db4ac diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index c8e7baa4d..65e3739fa 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,56 @@ +udev 090 +======== +Provide "udevsettle" to wait for all current udev events to finish. +It also watches the current kernel netlink queue by comparing the +even sequence number to make sure that there are no current pending +events that have not already arrived in the daemon. + +udev 089 +======== +Fix rule to skip persistent rules for removable IDE devices, which +also skipped optical IDE drives. + +All *_id program are installed in /lib/udev/ by default now. + +No binary is stripped anymore as this should be done in the +packaging process and not at build time. + +libvolume_id is provided as a shared library now and vol_id is +linked against it. Also one of the next HAL versions will require +this library, and the HAL build process will also require the +header file to be installed. The copy of the same code in HAL will +be removed to have only a single copy left on the system. + +udev 088 +======== +Add persistent links for SCSI tapes. The rules file is renamed +to 60-persistent-storage.rules. + +Create persistent path for usb devices. Can be used for all sorts +of devices that can't be distinguished by other properties like +multiple identical keyboards and mice connected to the same box. + +Provide "udevtrigger" program to request events on coldplug. The +shell script is much too slow with thousends of devices. + +udev 087 +======== +Fix persistent disk rules to exclude removable IDE drives. + +Warn if %e, $modalias or MODALIAS is used. + +udev 086 +======== +Fix queue export, which wasn't correct for subsequent add/remove +events for the same device. + +udev 085 +======== +Fix cramfs detection on big endian. + +Make WAIT_FOR_SYSFS usable in "normal" rules and silent if the whole +device goes away. + udev 084 ======== If BUS== and SYSFS{}== have been used in the same rule, the sysfs @@ -207,7 +260,7 @@ udev 069 A bunch of mostly trivial bugfixes. From now on no node name or symlink name can contain any character than plain whitelisted ascii characters or validated utf8 byte-streams. This is needed for the -/dev/disk/by-label/* links, cause we import untrusted data and +/dev/disk/by-label/* links, because we import untrusted data and export it to the filesystem. udev 068 @@ -219,7 +272,7 @@ situations. udev 067 ======== Bugfix. udevstart event ordering was broken for a long time. -The new run_program() uncovered it, cause /dev/null was not +The new run_program() uncovered it, because /dev/null was not available while we try to run external programs. Now udevstart should create it before we run anything. @@ -244,7 +297,7 @@ 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 +because "*" will not fail anymore, if the key does not exist or is empty. udev 063 @@ -417,7 +470,7 @@ 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, because we walk up the chain of physical devices to find a match. The KEY="" format supports '=', '==', '!=,' , '+=' now. This makes it @@ -432,5 +485,5 @@ 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. -udevstart is its own binary again, cause we don't need co carry this araound +udevstart is its own binary again, because we don't need co carry this araound with every forked event.