X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=fea7db0d2b557719dc9f3abef1a9edeb86a677e7;hp=461ced5dbc2ada458d2eb7722d5134f9a447b2b1;hb=05b9640022d25a75923cc7809409914491a5f9da;hpb=9d534c0e764a6d2c20032d130e40e867133af149 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 461ced5db..fea7db0d2 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,181 @@ +udev 125 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should +be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private to +the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up rule +files from: + /lib/udev/rules.d/ - default installed rules + /etc/udev/rules.d/ - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules + /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after bootup +It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are sorted +in lexical order. + +To help creating /dev/root, we have now: + $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix="ROOT_" --device-id-of-file=/ + ROOT_MAJOR=8 + ROOT_MINOR=5 +In case the current --device-id-of-file is already used, please switch to +the --export format version, it saves the output parsing and the old +format will be changed to use ':' as a separator, like the format in the +sysfs 'dev' file. + +udev 124 +======== +Fix cdrom_id to properly recognize blank media. + +udev 123 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Tape drive id-data is queried from /dev/bsg/* instead of the tape +nodes. This avoids rewinding tapes on open(). + +udev 122 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The symlinks udevcontrol and udevtrigger are no longer installed by +the Makefile. + +The scsi_id program does not depend on sysfs anymore. It can speak +SGv4 now, so /dev/bsg/* device nodes can be used, to query SCSI device +data, which should solve some old problems with tape devices, where +we better do not open all tape device nodes to identify the device. + +udev 121 +======== +Many bugfixes. + +The cdrom_id program is replaced by an advanced version, which can +detect most common device types, and also properties of the inserted +media. This is part of moving some basic functionality from HAL into +udev (and the kernel). + +udev 120 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The last WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rule is removed from the default rules. + +The symlinks to udevadm for the debugging tools: udevmonitor and +udevtest are no longer created. + +The symlinks to the udevadm man page for the old tool names are +no longer created. + +Abstract namespace sockets paths in RUN+="socket:@" rules, +should be prefixed with '@' to indicate that the path is not a +real file. + +udev 119 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 118 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udevstart is removed from the tree, it did not get installed for +a long time now, and is long replaced by trigger and settle. + +udev 117 +======== +Bugfixes. + +All udev tools are merged into a single binary called udevadm. +The old names of the tools are built-in commands in udevadm now. +Symlinks to udevadm, with the names of the old tools, provide +the same functionality as the standalone tools. There is also +only a single udevadm.8 man page left for all tools. + +Tools like mkinitramfs should be checked, if they need to include +udevadm in the list of files. + +udev 116 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 115 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The etc/udev/rules.d/ directory now contains a default set of basic +udev rules. This initial version is the result of a rules file merge +of Fedora and openSUSE. For these both distros only a few specific +rules are left in their own file, named after the distro. Rules which +are optionally installed, because they are only valid for a specific +architecture, or rules for subsystems which are not always used are +in etc/udev/packages/. + +udev 114 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Dynamic rules can be created in /dev/.udev/rules.d/ to trigger +actions by dynamically created rules. + +SYMLINK=="" matches agains the entries in the list of +currently defined symlinks. The links are not created in the +filesystem at that point in time, but the values can be matched. + +RUN{ignore_error}+="" will ignore any exit code from the +program and not record as a failed event. + +udev 113 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Final merge of patches/features from the Ubuntu package. + +udev 112 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Control characters in filesystem label strings are no longer silenty +removed, but hex-encoded, to be able to uniquely identify the device +by its symlink in /dev/disk/by-label/. +If libvolume_id is used by mount(8), LABEL= will work as expected, +if slashes or other characters are used in the label string. + +To test the existence of a file, TEST=="" and TEST!="" +can be specified now. The TEST key accepts an optional mode mask +TEST{0100}=="". + +Scsi_id now supports a mode without expecting scsi-specific sysfs +entries to allow the extraction of cciss-device persistent properties. + +udev 111 +======== +Bugfixes. + +In the future, we may see uuid's which are just simple character +strings (see the DDF Raid Specification). For that reason vol_id now +exports ID_FS_UUID_SAFE, just like ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE. For things like +the creation of symlinks, the *_SAFE values ensure, that no control +or whitespace characters are used in the filename. + +Possible users of libvolume_id, please use the volume_id_get_* functions. +The public struct will go away in a future release of the library. + +udev 110 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Removal of useless extras/eventrecorder.sh. + +udev 109 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 108 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The directory multiplexer for dev.d/ and hotplug.d are finally removed +from the udev package. + udev 107 ======== Bugfixes.