X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=9b7fa3133013c4dfc1bc5d759cd198e8aafdef83;hp=958ad39b8ac22b222af27811434a38054724bf9d;hb=16eb35d16e4c897f8d0bf7accce5c8ad066e8774;hpb=fc90ce812d052b4c766d91769456b42ba0051cb1 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 958ad39b8..9b7fa3133 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,41 @@ +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. @@ -19,3 +57,6 @@ 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 +with every forked event.