X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=7c81c9a8314d3ab70d3aa0c7492817223489b125;hp=ee992d1e601697c78402ab5a34bb05b26ab130e7;hb=ff9a488d8c559a2ee40e522cdc68b750670711e4;hpb=24a12dcbb81e364723cee065d7471b4d03a9db86 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index ee992d1e6..7c81c9a83 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,261 @@ +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 +attributes were only checked at the parent device that matched the +by BUS requested subsystem. Fix it to also look at the device we +received the event for. + +Build variable CROSS has changed to CROSS_COMPILE to match the kernel +build name. + +udev 083 +======== +Fix a bug where NAME="" would prevent RUN from beeing executed. + +RUN="/bin/program" does not longer automatically add the subsystem +as the first parameter. This is from the days of /sbin/hotplug +which is dead now and it's just confusing to need to add a space at +the end of the program name to prevent this. +If you use rules that need the subsystem as the first parameter, +like the old "udev_run_hotlugd" and "udev_run_devd", add the subsystem +to the key like RUN+="/bin/program $env{SUBSYSTEM}". + +udev 082 +======== +The udev man page has moved to udev(7) as it does not describe a command +anymore. The programs udev, udevstart and udevsend are no longer installed +by default and must be copied manually, if they should be installed or +included in a package. + +Fix a bug where "ignore_device" could run earlier collected RUN keys before +the ignore rule was applied. + +More preparation for future sysfs changes. usb_id and scsi_id no longer +depend on a magic order of devices in the /devices chain. Specific devices +should be requested by their subsytem. + +This will always find the scsi parent device without depending on a specific +path position: + dev = sysfs_device_get(devpath); + dev_usb = sysfs_device_get_parent_with_subsystem(dev, "scsi"); + +The "device" link in the current sysfs layout will be automatically +_resolved_ as a parent and in the new sysfs layout it will just _be_ the +parent in the devpath. If a device is requested by it's symlink, like all +class devices in the new sysfs layout will look like, it gets automatically +resolved and substituted with the real devpath and not the symlink path. + +Note: +A similar logic must be applied to _all_ sysfs users, including +scripts, that search along parent devices in sysfs. The explicit use of +the "device" link must be avoided. With the future sysfs layout all +DEVPATH's will start with /devices/ and have a "subsystem" symlink poiting +back to the "class" or the "bus". The layout of the parent devices in +/devices is not necessarily expected to be stable across kernel releases and +searching for parents by their subsystem should make sysfs users tolerant +for changed parent chains. + +udev 081 +======== +Prepare udev to work with the experimental kernel patch, that moves +/sys/class devices to /sys/devices and /sys/block to /sys/class/block. + +Clarify BUS, ID, $id usage and fix $id behavior. This prepares for +moving the class devices to /sys/devices. + +Thanks again to Marco for help finding a hopefully nice compromise +to make %b simpler and working again. + +udev 080 +======== +Complete removal of libsysfs, replaced by simple helper functions +which are much simpler and a bit faster. The udev daemon operatesentirely +on event parameters and does not use sysfs for simple rules anymore. +Please report any new bugs/problems, that may be caused by this big +change. They will be fixed immediately. + +The enumeration format character '%e' is deprecated and will be +removed sometimes from a future udev version. It never worked correctly +outside of udevstart, so we can't use it with the new parallel +coldplug. A simple enumeration is as useless as the devfs naming +scheme, just get rid of both if you still use it. + +MODALIAS and $modalias is not needed and will be removed from one of +the next udev versions, replace it in all rules with ENV{MODALIAS} or +the sysfs "modalias" value. + +Thanks a lot to Marco for all his help on finding and fixing bugs. + +udev 079 +======== +Let scsi_id request libata drive serial numbers from page 0x80. + +Renamed etc/udev/persistent.rules to persistent-disk.rules and +added /dev/disk/by-name/* for device mapper device names. + +Removed %e from the man page. It never worked reliably outside +of udevstart and udevstart is no longer recommended to use. + +udev 078 +======== +Symlinks are now exported to the event environment. Hopefully it's no +longer needed to run udevinfo from an event process, like it was +mentioned on the hotplug list: + UDEV [1134776873.702967] add@/block/sdb + ... + DEVNAME=/dev/sdb + DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-IBM_Memory_Key_0218B301030027E8 /dev/disk/by-path/usb-0218B301030027E8:0:0:0 + +udev 077 +======== +Fix a problem if udevsend is used as the hotplug handler and tries to use +syslog, which causes a "vc" event loop. 2.6.15 will make udevsend obsolete +and this kind of problems will hopefully go away soon. + +udev 076 +======== +All built-in logic to work around bad sysfs timing is removed with this +version. The need to wait for sysfs files is almost fixed with a kernel +version that doesn't work with this udev version anyway. Until we fix +the timing of the "bus" link creation, the former integrated logic should +be emulated by a rule placed before all other rules: + ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus" + +The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will be in +/$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this +to anything else. +If the init script or something else used this value, just depend on +this hardcoded path. But remember _all_content_ of this directory is +still private to udev and can change at any time. + +Default location for rule sripts and helper programs is now: /lib/udev/. +Everything that is not useful on the commandline should go into this +directory. Some of the helpers in the extras folder are installed there +now. The rules need to be changed, to find the helpers there. + +Also /lib/udev/devices is recommended as a directory where packages or +the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over to /dev at +every boot. This should replace the various solutions with custom config +files. + +Udevsend does no longer start the udev daemon. This must be done with +the init script that prepares /dev on tmpfs and creates the initial nodes, +before starting the daemon. + +udev 075 +======== +Silent a too verbose error logging for the old hotplug.d/ dev.d/ +emulation. + +The copy of klibc is removed. A systemwide installed version of klibc +should be used to build a klibc udev now. + +udev 074 +======== +NAME="" will not create any nodes, but execute RUN keys. To completely +ignore an event the OPTION "ignore_device" should be used. + +After removal of the reorder queue, events with a TIMEOUT can be executed +without any queuing now. + +udev 073 +======== +Fixed bug in udevd, if inotify is not available. We depend on netlink +uevents now, kernels without that event source will not work with that +version of udev anymore. + +udev 072 +======== +The rule parsing happens now in the daemon once at startup, all udev +event processes inherit the already parsed rules from the daemon. +It is shipped with SUSE10.0 and reduces heavily the system load at +startup. The option to save precompiled rules and let the udev process +pick the them up is removed, as it's no longer needed. + +Kernel 2.6.15 will have symlinks at /class/input pointing to the real +device. Libsysfs is changed to "translate" the requested link into the +real device path, as it would happen with the hotplug event. Otherwise +device removal and the udev database will not work. + +Using 'make STRIPCMD=' will leave the binaries unstripped for debugging +and packaging. + +A few improvements for vol_id, the filesytem probing code. + +udev 071 +======== +Fix a stupid typo in extras/run_directory for "make install". + +scsi_id creates the temporary devnode now in /dev for usage with a +non-writable /tmp directory. + +The uevent kernel socket buffer can carry app. 50.000 events now, +let's see who can break this again. :) + +The upcoming kernel will have a new input driver core integration. +Some class devices are now symlinks to the real device. libsysfs +needs a fix for this to work correctly. Udevstart of older udev +versions will _not_ create these devices! + +udev 070 +======== +Fix a 'install' target in the Makefile, that prevents EXTRAS from +beeing installed. + +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, because we import untrusted data and +export it to the filesystem. + udev 068 ======== More bugfixes. If udevd was started from the kernel, we don't @@ -7,7 +265,7 @@ 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. @@ -32,7 +290,7 @@ 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 @@ -205,7 +463,7 @@ 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 @@ -220,5 +478,5 @@ 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.