1 Summary of changes from v106 to v107
2 ============================================
5 udevtest: export UDEV_LOG if we changed it
8 man: add missing options to various man pages
10 create_floppy_devices: apply specified mode without umask
12 udevmonitor: add switch for kernel and udev events
13 default rules: wait for 0:0:0:0 scsi devices only
15 delete dasd_id, it moved to s390-tools
17 encode db-file names, instead of just replacing '/'
18 update internal variables if we see $DEVPATH during IMPORT
19 increase /proc/stat buffer
20 maintain index over device-names to devpath relation
21 restore overwritten symlinks when the device goes away
22 store devpath with the usual leading slash
23 add link_priority to rule options, and store it in database
24 pick actual valid device in udev_db_lookup_name
25 cleanup already existing db-entries and db-index on device update
26 selinux: move selinux_exit() to the main programs
27 remove old error message
28 read list of devices from index, make index private to database
29 priority based symlink handling
30 volume_id: get rid of compiler warning
31 udevinfo: remove -d option
32 update %n on netif name change
33 if a node goes away, possibly restore a waiting symlink
35 man: add "link_priority" option
37 udevtest: add --force mode
38 udevinfo: print link priority
39 usb_id: append target:lun to storage device serial
40 run_directory: add final warning before removal
45 Matthias Schwarzott (2):
46 udevd: cleanup std{in,our,err} on startup
47 udevmonitor: fix swapped event switch descriptions
50 Summary of changes from v105 to v106
51 ============================================
54 man: fix typos in scsi_id and udevd
57 vol_id: add -L to print raw partition label
61 persistent device naming: tape devices and medium changers
64 exclude parent devices from DRIVER== match
65 volume_id: really fix endianess bug in linux_raid detection
67 man: correct udevinfo --export-db
68 path_id: append LUN to iSCSI path
69 create_floppy_devices: add option for owner/group
71 apply format chars to ATTR before writing to sysfs
72 add (subsystem) to udevmonitor output
73 update DRIVER== changes
74 remove --version from the udevinfo man page
75 add test for an attribute which contains an operator char
76 man: add note about parent matching behavior
77 scsi_id: accept tabs in /etc/scsi_id.conf
78 remove dead rule in persistent tape rules
80 Matthias Schwarzott (4):
81 correct typo in extras/scsi_id/scsi_id.conf
82 fix retry-loop in netif-rename code
83 add option --version to udevd
84 rule_generator: fix for creating rules on read-only filesystem
86 Peter Breitenlohner (1):
87 fix INSTALL_PROGRAM vs. INSTALL_SCRIPT
90 udevd: init signal pipe before daemonizing
91 unlink old database file before creating a new one
92 fix %c $string substitution
94 Theodoros V. Kalamatianos (1):
95 fix udev attribute names with a colon
98 Summary of changes from v104 to v105
99 ============================================
102 man: fix typos in scsi_id and udevd
104 Andrey Borzenkov (2):
105 vol_id: add -L to print raw partition label
109 exclude parent devices from DRIVER== match
110 volume_id: really fix endianess bug in linux_raid detection
112 Matthias Schwarzott (2):
113 correct typo in extras/scsi_id/scsi_id.conf
114 fix retry-loop in netif-rename code
116 Peter Breitenlohner (1):
117 fix INSTALL_PROGRAM vs. INSTALL_SCRIPT
120 udevd: init signal pipe before daemonizing
121 unlink old database file before creating a new one
122 fix %c $string substitution
125 Summary of changes from v103 to v104
126 ============================================
133 volume_id: fix endianess bug in linux_raid detection
134 man: fix udevmonitor text
135 man: recreate from xml
136 rename config "filename" to "dir"
137 remove outdated documentation
138 rename "udev.c" to "test-udev.c" - it is only for testing
140 use git-archive instead of git-tar-tree
143 inotify syscall definitions for M32R
146 write_cd_rules: identity-based persistence
147 scsi_id: remove trailing garbage from ID_SERIAL_SHORT
150 SELinux: label created symlink instead of node
153 Summary of changes from v102 to v103
154 ============================================
157 persistent storage rules: skip gnbd devices
158 volume_id: add checksum check to via_raid
159 volume_id: add comment about hfs uuid conversion
164 Summary of changes from v101 to v102
165 ============================================
168 writing_udev_rules: fix typo in example rule
171 create missing ChangeLog for version 101
174 first try "subsystem" link at a parent device, before guessing
175 if /sys/subsystem exists, skip class, bus, block scanning
176 scsi_id: export ID_SERIAL_SHORT without vendor/product
180 path_id: fix SAS disk handling
183 Summary of changes from v100 to v101
184 ============================================
187 fix udevinfo help text typo
190 cleanup default rules
191 add IMPORT operations to the udev man page
194 remove Makefile magic for leading '0' in version
195 udevd: use getopt_long()
196 udevd: add --verbose option to log also to stdout
197 udevd: add --debug-trace option
198 rule_generator: improve net rule comment generation
199 volume_id: correct iso9660 high sierra header
200 warn if a PHYSEDV* key, the "device" link, or a parent attribute is used
201 don't print PHYSDEV* warnings for old WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rules
202 udevinfo: print error in --attribute-walk
203 udev_sysfs: unify symlink resolving
204 udevtrigger: trigger devices sorted by their dependency
205 fix spelling in deprecation warning
208 MichaĆ Bartoszkiewicz:
209 udevtrigger: fix typo that prevents partition events
212 clarify "specified user/group unknown" error
215 update slackware rules
218 update Frugalware rules
221 Summary of changes from v099 to v100
222 ============================================
226 fix messed up ChangeLog from release 099
227 man: add $attr{} section about symlinks
228 revert persistent-storage ata-serial '_' '-' replacement
231 Summary of changes from v098 to v099
232 ============================================
238 udev_db.c: include <sys/stat.h>
239 use fnmatch() instead of our own pattern match code
240 rename major/minor variable to maj/min to avoid warning
241 update source file headers
242 udevtest: print header that ENV{} can't work
244 udevtrigger: options to filter by subsystem and sysfs attribute
245 udevtrigger: remove unused longindex
246 udevinfo: use long options
247 udevd: use files instead of symlinks for /dev/.udev/queue,failed
248 udevtrigger: fix pattern match
249 reorder options in udevinfo man page
250 udevinfo: fix SUBSYTEMS spelling error
251 fix ENV{TEST}="Test: $env{TEST}"
252 let $attr{symlink} return the last element of the path
253 cdrom_id: add rules file to call cdrom_id
254 udevinfo: do not show symlinks as attributes in --attribute-walk
255 remove broken name_cdrom.pl
259 run_program: close pipe fd's which are connected to child process
260 add persistent rules generator for net devices and optical drives
263 changes rules for ata disk from '_' to '-'
266 make struct option arrays static const
270 Summary of changes from v097 to v098
271 ============================================
274 udevtest: allow /sys in the devpath paramter
277 selinux: init once in the daemon, not in every event process
280 udevd: remove huge socket buffer on the control socket
282 rename udev_libc_wrapper -> udev_sysdeps
283 db: store devpath - node relationship for all devices
284 udevinfo: allow -a -n <node>
285 udevinfo, udevtest: simplify '/sys' stripping from devpath argument
286 lookup_user, lookup_group: report "unknown user" and "lookup failed"
287 consistent key naming to match only the event device or include all parent devices
288 skip rule, if too may keys of the same type are used
289 introduce ATTR{file}="value" to set sysfs attributes
292 export DRIVER for older kernels as a replacement for PHYSDEVDRIVER
293 fix typo in SUBSYSTEMS key parsing
294 udevtrigger: add --retry-failed
295 volume_id: add suspend partition detection
296 vol_id: use primary group of 'nobody' instead of 'nogroup'
297 remove built-in /etc/passwd /etc/group parser
298 always expect KEY{value} on ATTR, ATTRS, ENV keys
299 use new key names in test programs
300 cleanup commandline argument handling
301 db: don't create a db file for only a node name to store
302 man: add ATTR{file}="value" assignment
305 volume_id: fix fat32 cluster chain traversal
308 fix 'unknow user' error from getpwnam/getgrnam
309 fix rc when using udev --daemon
312 MichaĆ Bartoszkiewicz:
316 Summary of changes from v096 to v097
317 ============================================
320 add joystick support to persistent input rules
323 firmware.sh: remove needless '/'
324 vol_id: add --skip-raid and --probe-all option
325 switch uevent netlink socket to group 1 only
326 increase /proc/stat read buffer
327 use "change" instead of "online" events
328 remove 'static' from local variable
329 libvolume_id: add parameter 'size' to all probe functions
330 man pages: replace 'device-path' by 'devpath'
331 man pages: work around xmlto which tries to be smart
332 refresh vol_id man page
333 udevinfo: add DRIVER==
334 Makefile: fix dependency
335 libvolume_id: read ufs2 label
336 switch ifdef __KLIBC__ to ifndef __GLIBC__
337 report failing getpwnam/getgrnam as error
338 rename udevcontrol message types and variables
339 initialize unused sockets to -1
340 udevd: remove useless udevinitsend parameter
342 udevd: autotune max_childs/max_childs_running
343 update frugalware rules
345 move default rules to etc/udev/rules.d/
346 add 'crypto' devices to persistent storage rules
347 add late.rules to default rules
349 don't report an error on overlong comment lines
351 udevd: read DRIVER from the environment
354 make rename_netif() error messages useful
355 path_id: fix an harmless syntax error
358 update slackware rules
361 Fix inotify syscalls on ARM
364 Summary of changes from v095 to v096
365 ============================================
368 Makefiles: fix .PHONY for man page target
369 allow longer devpath values
370 path_id: prepare for new sysfs layout
373 Summary of changes from v094 to v095
374 ============================================
378 don't remove symlinks if they are already there
379 allow "online" events to create/update symlinks
380 udevinfo: clarify parent device attribute use
382 netif rename: optimistic loop for the name to become free
383 remove broken %e enumeration
386 print usage of udevcontrol when no or invalid command is given
389 Summary of changes from v093 to v094
390 ============================================
393 update "writing udev rules"
396 libvolume_id: gfs + gfs2 support
397 remove MODALIAS key and substitution
398 add persistent-input.rules
404 Summary of changes from v092 to v093
405 ============================================
408 path_id: add support for iSCSI devices
411 libvolume_id: fat - check for signature at end of sector
412 libvolume_id: add more software raid signatures
414 path_id: prevent endless loop for SAS devices on older kernels
416 replace binary firmware helper with shell script
417 skip device mapper devices for persistent links
420 Summary of changes from v091 to v092
421 ============================================
424 don't include stropts.h, some libc's don't like it
425 udevd: create leading directories for /dev/.udev/uevent_seqnum
426 vol_id: fix logging from libvolume_id's log function
429 add more warnings for invalid key operations
430 fix offsetof() build issue with recent glibc
431 selinux: fix typo in block device node selection
432 vol_id: add NetWare volume detection
433 edd_id: fix "(null)" output if "mbr_signature" does not exist
435 libvolume_id: nss - use different uuid
438 path_id: add platform and serio support
445 Summary of changes from v090 to v091
446 ============================================
449 path_id: fix SAS device path generation
452 udevtest: don't try to delete symlinks
453 persistent rules: fix typo in dm rule
454 allow NAME=="value" to check for already assigned value
455 udevd: export initial sequence number on startup
458 Summary of changes from v089 to v090
459 ============================================
462 udevd: export current seqnum and add udevsettle
463 volume_id: fix endianess conversion typo for FAT32
464 merge device event handling and make database content available on "remove"
465 set default udevsettle timeout to 3 minutes
466 export INTERFACE_OLD if we renamed a netif
467 let udevmonitor show the possibly renamed devpath
468 volume_id: move some debug to info level
469 udevtrigger: fix event order
470 usb_id: remove uneeded code
471 remove old symlinks before creating current ones
472 path_id: fix loop for SAS devices
473 apply format char to variables exported by ENV
476 add inotify support for hppa and MIPS and log if inotify is not available
479 fix typo in error message
482 Summary of changes from v088 to v089
483 ============================================
486 path_id: add bus to USB path
489 change rule to skip removable IDE devices
490 don't create uuid/label links for raid members
491 volume_id: provide library
492 fix rule order for persistent tape links
494 volume_id: provide a custom debug function
495 volume_id: rename subdirectory
496 volume_id: use shared library by default
497 because is better than cause
498 volume_id: remove some global symbols
499 volume_id: define exported symbols
500 remove all stripping code
501 man pages: mention udev(7) not udev(8)
503 move all *_id programs to /lib/udev/
506 pass CROSS_COMPILE to AR and RANLIB down to extras/
507 volume_id: update README
508 volume_id: generate man page from xml source
510 fix symlink targets in Makefiles
513 Summary of changes from v087 to v088
514 ============================================
517 persistent links: add scsi tape links and usb path support
520 volume_id: add squashfs detection
521 reset signal handler in event process
522 correct use of fcntl()
523 add udevtrigger to request events for coldplug
524 add ',' to trusted chars
525 volume_id: remove partition table parsing code
526 volume_id: remove all partition table support
527 fix spelling error in debug string
528 rename "persistent disk" to "persistent storage"
529 fix output for USB path
532 Summary of changes from v086 to v087
533 ============================================
536 path_id: support SAS devices
539 fix persistent disk rules to exclude removable IDE drives
540 warn about %e, MODALIAS, $modalias
541 remove devfs rules and scripts
544 typo in debug text in udev_run_hotplugd.c
547 Summary of changes from v085 to v086
548 ============================================
551 volume_id: replace __packed__ by PACKED macro
552 volume_id: split raid and filesystem detection
553 volume_id: add missing return
554 udevd: fix queue export for multiple events for the same device
557 workaround missing kernel headers for some architectures
560 update to udev-084/doc/writing_udev_rules
563 Summary of changes from v084 to v085
564 ============================================
567 Fix trivial spelling errors in RELEASE-NOTES
570 fix typo in parisc support to path_id
573 make WAIT_FOR_SYSFS usable in non "wait-only" rules
575 include sys/socket.h for klibc build
576 cramfs detection for bigendian
577 exit WAIT_FOR_SYSFS if the whole device goes away
581 include errno.h in udev_libc_wrapper.c
584 Summary of changes from v083 to v084
585 ============================================
589 switch CROSS to CROSS_COMPILE
590 replace fancy silent build program by simple kernel build like logic
591 move manpages to top level
592 remove UDEVD_UEVENT_INITSEND
594 scsi_id: remove dead files
595 optimize sysfs device and attribute cache
596 let SYSFS{} look at the device, not only the parent device
597 add debug output to sysfs operations
600 Summary of changes from v082 to v083
601 ============================================
604 man page: document when substitutions are applied for RUN and other keys
605 check for ignore_device in loop looks redundant
608 udevstart: fix NAME="" which prevents RUN from being executed
609 find programs in /lib/udev for IMPORT if {program} is not given
610 don't add $SUBSYSTEM automatically as $1 to programs
611 remove redundant substitution of RUN key
614 Summary of changes from v081 to v082
615 ============================================
618 substitute format chars in RUN after rule matching
621 scsi_id, usb_id: request device parent by subsystem
622 path_id: work with "all devices in /sys/devices"
623 ignore all messages with missing devpath or action
624 Makefile: remove dynamic config file generation
625 path_id: handle fiber channel (Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>)
626 usb_id: don't fail on other subsytems than "scsi"
627 don't do RUN if "ignore_device" is given
628 increase kernel uevent buffer size
629 move udev(8) manpage to udev(7)
630 recreate man pages from xml source
631 remove udev, udevstart, udevsend from the default installation
633 rename apply_format() cause it is public now
634 udevtest: add udev_rules_apply_format() to RUN keys
635 let "ignore_device" always return the event successfully
638 fixes udev build with -fpie
641 Summary of changes from v080 to v081
642 ============================================
645 add DEVLINKS to "remove" event
646 better log text and comments
647 vol_id: probe volume as user nobody
648 fix BUS, ID, $id usage
649 prepare moving of /sys/class devices to /sys/devices
652 Summary of changes from v079 to v080
653 ============================================
656 fix dependency for make -j2
662 update RELEASE-NOTES + TODO
666 path_id: fix invalid character class
670 udev_selinux.c: include udev.h
673 Summary of changes from v078 to v079
674 ============================================
677 don't log error if database does not exist
678 use udev_root instead of "/dev"in selinux matchpathcon_init_prefix()
679 scsi_id: read page 0x80 with libata drives
681 remove %e from man page
684 Summary of changes from v077 to v078
685 ============================================
688 Update Gentoo udev main rule file.
689 add parisc support to path_id
692 scsi_id: -u fold multiple consecutive whitespace chars into single '_'
695 optimize SELinux path match
700 fix segfaulting create_floppy_devices
702 remove unused variables
703 remove default settings in udev.conf
704 clearenv() is now part of klibc
705 add DEVLINKS to the event environment
708 scsi_id: support pre-SPC3 page 83 format
711 Summary of changes from v076 to v077
712 ============================================
715 merge two consecutive static strlcat's
716 don't return an error, if "ignore_device" is used
717 remove outdated and misleading stuff
718 move SEQNUM event skipping to udevsend
721 allow programs in /lib/udev called without the path
723 add target to to generate ChangeLog section
727 allow to overwrite the configured udev_root by exporting UDEV_ROOT
728 let udevsend ignore events with SEQNUM set
732 Summary of changes from v75 to v076
733 ============================================
736 fix typo in eventrecorder
737 volume_id: include stddef.h header
738 remove misleading install instructions
739 remove all built-in wait_for_sysfs logic
740 add linux/types.h back, old glibc-kernel-headers want it
741 volume_id: use glibc's byteswap
742 udevd: ignore all messages without DEVPATH
743 udevd: track exit status of event process
744 udevd: export event queue and event state
745 remove "udev_db" option from config file
746 Makefile: remove exec_prefix and srcdir
747 update README and RELEASE-NOTES
748 udevd: track killed event processes as failed
750 don't start udevd from udevsend
751 udevd: add a missing return
752 libvolume_id: fix weird fat volume recognition
753 move some helpers from extras to /lib/udev
756 move delete_path() to utils
757 clean-up empty queue directories
758 Makefile: fail, if submake fails
761 Summary of changes from v74 to v075
762 ============================================
765 Make run_directory.c stat the place it is going to try to run.
768 forgot the ChangeLog for 074
769 volume_id: provide libvolume_id.a file
770 remove our own copy of klibc
771 remove outdated HOWTO
774 remove completely useless start script
775 fix tests and remove no longer useful stuff
776 replace udeveventrecorder by a shell script
779 Summary of changes from v73 to v074
780 ============================================
783 never queue events with TIMEOUT set
784 let NAME="" supress node creation, but do RUN keys
789 add strerror() to error logs
790 move some logging from dbg() to info()
793 Summary of changes from v72 to v073
794 ============================================
797 udevd: depend on netlink and remove all sequence reorder logic
798 print useconds in udevmonitor
799 add RELEASE-NOTES, update TODO
802 Summary of changes from v71 to v072
803 ============================================
805 Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli:
806 libsysfs: translate devpath of the symlinked class devices to its real path
809 add man pages for *_id programs
812 volume_id: add OCFS Version 1
813 volume_id: add Veritas fs
814 volume_id: check ext fs for valid blocksize, cause magic is only 2 bytes
815 volume_id: move blocksize validation to fix jbd recognition
816 volume_id: fix typo in ocfs
817 volume_id: add vxfs include
818 volume_id: make FAT32 recognition more robust
819 volume_id: Version 051
820 volume_id: fix typo in ext blocksize check
821 volume_id: Version 052
822 FAQ: remove confusing statement about module loading
823 cleanup compiler/linker flags
824 use DESTDIR on uninstall, no need to pass prefix to submake
825 allow to pass STRIPCMD, to skip stripping of binaries
827 fix the new warnings I asked for
828 move rules parsing into daemon
829 "make STRIPCMD=" will disable the stripping of binaries
830 remove no longer working udevd-test program
831 "STRIPCMD=" for the EXTRAS
832 add dummy inotify syscalls on unsupported architecture
833 remove no longer needed waiting for "dev" file
834 revert the "read symlink as device patch"
835 use libsysfs to translate the class linke to the device path
836 libsysfs: remove brute-force "bus", "driver" searching for old kernels
837 test: add "driver" and "bus" links to test sysfs tree
839 udevd: don't daemonize before initialization
840 log to console if syslog is not available
842 remove precompiled rules option
843 export DEVNAME on "remove" only if we really got a node to remove
847 Summary of changes from v70 to v071
848 ============================================
851 Remove the udev.spec file as no one uses it anymore
854 edd_id: check that EDD id is unique
857 ata_id: open volume O_NONBLOCK
858 add "Persistent Device Naming" rules file for disks
859 scsi_id: switch temporary node creation to /dev
860 volume_id: set reiser instead of reiserfs for filesystem type
861 update devfs rules header
865 remove no longer needed includes
866 switch tools and volume_id from LGPL to GPLv2
867 add edd-*-part%n to the persistent.rules
868 update Debian persistent rules
870 udevd: fix initial timeout handling
871 force event socket buffer size to 16MB
872 udevd: move logging from err to info for non-hotplug uevent
873 fix selinux compilation
874 libsysfs: accept sysmlinks to directories instead of real directories
877 run_directory: fix typo in "make install"
880 Summary of changes from v069 to v070
881 ============================================
884 udevd: fix udevd read() calls to leave room for null byte
887 scsi_id: derive a UID for a SCSI-2 not compliant with the page 83
890 fix nbd error messages with a gentoo rule hack
891 fix scsi_id rule in gentoo config file
894 EXTRAS/Makefile: fix install targets to match main Makefile
897 volume_id: fix error handling with failing read()
898 EXTRAS: cleanup and sync all Makefiles
899 add install test to 'make buildtest'
903 fix a debug text typo in udev_rules.c
906 Summary of changes from v068 to v069
907 ============================================
910 fix typo in firmware_helper
913 firmware_helper: fix write count
916 *_id: fix zero length in set_str()
917 add program name to logged error
918 fix exit code of udevinitsend and udevmonitor
919 udevd: keep the right order for messages without SEQNUM
920 volume_id: don't probe for mac_partition_maps
921 udevmonitor: cleanup on exit
922 path_id: remove SUSE specific PATH
924 add pci_express to bus list
926 store ENV{key}="value" exported keys in the database
927 fix lookup for name in the udevdb, it should return the devpath
928 prepare for new HAL udevdb dump
929 print persistent data with "udevinfo -q all"
930 change parameter order of udev_db_search_name()
931 add and use name_list_cleanup() for cleaning up the string lists
932 don't store devpath in udevdb, we don't need it
933 add uft8 validation for safe volume label exporting
934 start to enforce plain ascii or valid utf8
935 use WRITE_END/READ_END for the pipe index
936 remove not needed sig_flag for state of signal_pipe
937 don't reenter get_udevd_msg() if message is ignored
938 rename ...trailing_char() to ...trailing_chars()
939 vol_id: ID_LABEL_SAFE will no longer contain fancy characters
940 udevd: move some logging to "info" and "err"
941 remove special TIMEOUT handling from incoming queue
942 udev_test.pl: we replace untrusted chars with '_'
943 check the udevdb before assigning a new %e
945 udevinfo: add database export
946 write man page masters in DocBook XML
947 udevinfo: rename dump() to export()
948 test the automatic man page rebuild and checkin
949 Makefile: remove all the duplicated rules
950 all man pages rewritten to use DocBook XML
951 add missing udevsend man page
952 also forgot udevmonitor.8
953 udevinfo: restore -d option
954 scsi_id: rename SYSFS to LIBSYSFS
955 add edd_id tool to match BIOS EDD disk information
956 move and update libsysfs.txt
957 klibc: update to version 1.1.1
958 delete cdromsymlinks* - obsoleted by cdrom_id and IMPORT rules
959 delete docs/persistent_naming - obsoleted by persistent disk names
960 delete old Fedora html page
961 add "totally outdated" header to docs/overview :)
963 fix useless but funny name_cdrom.pl script to work again
965 Makefile: fix prerequisits for $(PROGRAMS)
966 Makefile: cleanup install targets
967 remove chassis_id program
968 fic gcov use and move it into the Makefile
969 FAQ: update things that have changed
972 switch to '==' in raid-devfs.sh
975 Summary of changes from v067 to v068
976 ============================================
979 add EXTRAS documentation to the README file.
980 Always open the cdrom drive in non-blocking mode in cdrom_id
981 cdrom_id: change err() to info() to help with debugging problems
984 cleanup some debug output and move to info level + unify select() loops
985 move udevmonitor to /usr/sbin
986 ENV{TEST}=="1" compares and ENV{TEST}="1" sets the environment
987 vol_id: fix sloppy error handling
988 fix typo in cdrom_id syslog
989 bring std(in|out|err) fd's in a sane state
990 fix printed udevmonitor header
993 Summary of changes from v066 to v067
994 ============================================
997 added the cdrom.h #defines directly into the cdrom_id.c file
1001 fix make install, as we don't provide a default rule set anymore
1002 fix more compiler warnings ...
1003 fix udevstart event ordering, we want /dev/null very early
1004 don't fail too bad, if /dev/null does not exist
1007 Summary of changes from v065 to v066
1008 ============================================
1011 update gentoo rule file.
1012 Created cdrom_id program to make it easier to determine cdrom types
1013 added cdrom_id to the build check
1014 updated gentoo rule file to handle removable ide devices.
1015 changed cdrom_id exports to be easier to understand and consistant with other _id programs.
1016 fix klibc build issue in cdrom_id.c
1017 Change the gentoo rules to use cdrom_id instead of cdsymlink.sh
1018 changed location of gentoo helper apps to be /sbin instead of in scripts dir
1019 tweak the gentoo rules some more.
1022 add NETLINK define for the lazy distros
1023 read sysfs attribute also from parent class device
1024 switch some strlcpy's to memcpy
1025 allow clean shutdown of udevd
1026 add flag for reading of precompiled rules
1027 update distro rules files
1030 add firmware_helper to load firmware
1031 more distro rules updates
1033 remove example rules and put the dev.d stuff into the run_directory folder
1034 trivial text cleanups
1036 split udev_util in several files
1038 allow logging of all output from executed tools
1039 add Usage: to udevmonitor and udevcontrol
1040 move some logging to the info level
1046 Summary of changes from v064 to v065
1047 ============================================
1050 Added persistent name rules for block devices to gentoo rule file.
1051 Added horrible (but fun) path_id script to extras.
1052 Update gentoo rules file.
1055 update release notes for next version
1056 add udevmonitor, to debug netlink+udev events at the same time
1057 allow RUN to send the environment to a local socket
1058 fix GGC signed pointer warnings and switch volume_id to stdint
1061 Summary of changes from v063 to v064
1062 ============================================
1065 volume_id: add OCFS (Oracle Cluster File System) support
1069 add ID_BUS to *_id programs
1070 create_floppy_devices: add tool to create floppy nodes based on sysfs info
1073 move code to its own files
1074 make SYSFS{} usable for all devices
1075 add padding to rules structure
1076 allow rules to have labels and skip to next label
1077 thread unknown ENV{key} match as empty value
1080 Summary of changes from v062 to v063
1081 ============================================
1084 fix typo in GROUP value application
1087 add 'make tests' as I'm always typing that one wrong...
1088 Really commit the udev_run_devd changes...
1089 Fixed udev_run_devd to run the /etc/dev.d/DEVNAME/ files too
1090 fix position of raw rules in gentoo config file
1093 dasd_id: add s390 disk-label prober
1094 fix usb_id and let scsi_id ignore "illegal request"
1097 volume_id: remove s390 dasd handling, it is dasd_id now
1098 trivial fixes for *_id programs
1099 IMPORT: add {parent} to import the persistent data of the parent device
1100 allow multiple values to be matched with KEY=="value1|value2"
1101 udevd: set incoming socket buffer SO_RCVBUF to maximum
1102 remember mapped rules state
1103 ata_id: check for empty serial number
1104 compile dasd only on s390
1107 correct default mode documentation in udev
1110 Summary of changes from v061 to v062
1111 ============================================
1114 fix symlink values separated by multiple spaces
1115 update RELEASE-NOTES
1116 fix typo in group assignment
1117 fix default-name handling and NAME="" rules
1118 add WAIT_FOR_SYSFS key to loop until a file in sysfs arrives
1119 fix unquoted strings in udevinitsend
1121 Summary of changes from v060 to v061
1122 ============================================
1125 Sync up the Debian rules files
1126 fix cdrom symlink problem in gentoo rules
1127 Fix ChangeLog titles
1130 update RELEASE-NOTES
1131 we want to provide OPTFLAGS
1132 rename ALARM_TIMEOUT to UDEV_ALARM_TIMEOUT
1133 udevd: optimize env-key parsing
1134 don't resolve OWNER, GROUP on precompile if string contains %, $
1135 set default device node to /dev
1136 create udevdb files only if somehting interesting happened
1137 pack parsed rules list
1138 replace useless defines by inline text
1139 move rule matches to function
1140 add usb_id program to generate usb-storage device identifiers
1141 add IEEE1394 rules to the gentoo rule file
1142 fake also kernel-name if we renamed a netif
1143 allow OPTIONS to be recognized for /sys/modules /sys/devices events
1144 switch gentoo rules to new operators
1147 Summary of changes from v059 to v060
1148 ============================================
1151 Fix the gentoo udev rules to allow the box to boot properly
1154 Udev doesn't properly build with $CROSS
1157 Keep udevstart from skipping devices without a 'dev' file
1160 #define NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT
1163 Summary of changes from v058 to v059
1164 ============================================
1167 Update the gentoo rule file
1168 Fix udevinfo for empty sysfs directories
1169 Fix makefile to allow 'make release' to work with git
1172 udev: fix netdev RUN handling
1173 udevcontrol: fix exit code
1176 prepare RELEASE-NOTES
1177 add ID_TYPE to the id probers
1178 add -x to scsi_id to export the queried values in env format
1179 store the imported device information in the udevdb
1180 rename udev_volume_id to vol_id and add --export option
1181 add ata_id to read serial numbers from ATA drives
1182 IMPORT allow to import program returned keys into the env
1183 unify execute_command() and execute_program()
1184 IMPORT=<file> allow to import a shell-var style config-file
1185 allow rules to be compiled to one binary file
1186 fix the fix and change the file to wait for to the "bus" link
1187 fix udevstart and let all events trvel trough udev
1188 prepare for module loading rules and add MODALIAS key
1189 remove device node, when type block/char has changed
1190 Makefile: remove dev.d/ hotplug.d/ from install target
1191 udevcontrol: add max_childs command
1192 udevd: control log-priority of the running daemon with udevcontrol
1193 udeveventrecorder: add small program that writes an event to disk
1194 klibc: add missing files
1195 udevinitsend: handle replay messages correctly
1196 udev man page: add operators
1197 udevd: allow starting of udevd with stopped exec-queue
1198 klibc: version 1.0.14
1199 udev: handle all events - not only class and block devices
1200 volume_id: use udev-provided log-level
1201 udev: clear lists if a new value is assigned
1202 udev: move dev.d/ handling to external helper
1203 udev: allow final assignments :=
1204 udevd: improve timeout handling
1205 Makefile: fix DESTDIR
1207 udevd: add udevcontrol
1208 udevd: listen for netlink events
1211 Dialout group fix for capi devices in the gentoo rules file
1213 Summary of changes from v057 to v058
1214 ============================================
1217 o Writing udev rules docs update
1220 o update cdsymlinks to latest version
1223 o remove detach_state files from the sysfs test tree
1224 o Update permissions on test scripts so they will run properly now
1225 o hopefully fix up the symlinks in the test directory
1226 o Removed klibc/klibc.spec as it is autogenerated
1227 o Added symlinks thanks to Kay's script and git hacking
1228 o add Red Hat/Fedora html documenation
1229 o Update Red Hat default udev rules
1232 o selinux: fix handling during creation of symlinks
1233 o Fedora udev.rules update
1234 o libsysfs: version 2.0
1235 o klibc: version 1.0.7
1238 o Fix libsysfs issue with relying on the detach_state file to be
1240 Summary of changes from v056 to v057
1241 ============================================
1243 <tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
1244 o fix stupid all_partitions bug
1247 o add test for make -j4 to build-check
1248 o klibc: version 1.0.6
1249 o update Debian rules
1250 o apply default permissions only for devices that will need it
1251 o adapt RELEASE-NOTES
1252 o udev_volume_id: fix endianess macros
1253 o udev-test.pl: add test for DEVNAME export to RUN environment
1254 o update the man page to reflect the recent changes
1255 o export DEVNAME to RUN-key executed programs
1256 o fix make -j4 and the local klibc-install
1257 o update RELEASE-NOTES
1258 o add RUN key to be able to run rule based notification
1259 o fix udevtest to print the error if logging is disabled
1260 o move execute_program to utils + add action to init_device
1261 o correct correction for error path for PROGRAM execution
1262 o correct error path for PROGRAM execution
1263 o klibc: version 1.0.5
1264 o check for strlen()==0 before accessing strlen()-1
1265 o allow to match against empty key values
1266 o read %s{}-sysfs values at any device in the chain
1267 o udev_rules.c: don't change sysfs_device while walking up the device chain
1268 o klibc: strlcpy/strlcat - don't alter destination if size == 0
1269 o fix klibc's broken strlcpy/strlcat
1270 o udevinfo: print SYSFS attribute the same way we match it
1271 o remove untrusted chars read from sysfs-values or returned by PROGRAM
1272 o udevinfo: print errors to stderr instead of stdout
1273 o klibc: version 1.0.4
1274 o support log-priority levels in udev.conf
1275 o test-suite: remove UDEV_TEST, it's not needed anymore
1276 o libsysfs: remove trailing slash on SYSFS_PATH override
1279 Summary of changes from v055 to v056
1280 ============================================
1282 <tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
1283 o fix header paths in udev_libc_wrapper.c
1286 o udev-test.pl: use more common user/group names
1287 o klibc: remove SCCS directories from the temporary klibc install
1288 o udev-test.pl: add a test where the group cannot be found in /etc/passwd
1289 o udev-test.pl: add check for textual uid/gid
1290 o fix bad typo that prevents the GROUP to be applied
1291 o udevd: don't delay events with TIMEOUT in the environment
1292 o klibc: use klcc wrapper instead of our own Makefile
1293 o change call_foreach_file to return a list
1296 Summary of changes from v054 to v055
1297 ============================================
1299 <jkluebs:luebsphoto.com>:
1300 o This patch causes the remove handler to check that each symlink actually points to the correct devnode and skip it if it does not.
1302 <pebenito:gentoo.org>:
1305 <tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
1306 o The following patch fixes some warnings when compiling volume_id from udev with the -Wall compiler flag. Define _GNU_SOURCE for strnlen() and correct the path to logging.h
1307 o The following patch fixes a warning when compiling chassis_id from udev with the -Wall compiler flag. There are too much conversions in the format string of sscanf(). One %d can be dropped.
1311 o added frugalware udev ruleset
1312 o merge selinux and Kay's symlink fixes together
1315 o volume_id: Fix label/uuid reading for reiserfs
1318 o add udevstart to the RELEASE-NOTES
1319 o volume_id: version 43
1320 o clarify the shortcomings of %e
1321 o correct rule match for devices without a physical device
1322 o remove unneeded code, libsysfs does this for us
1323 o add final release note
1324 o add ENV{} key to match agains environment variables
1325 o simplify sysfs_pair handling
1326 o add a test and simplify debug statement
1327 o support =, ==, !=, += for the key match and assignment
1328 o add OPTION="last_rule" to skip any later rule
1329 o rename namedev_dev to udev_rule
1330 o correct enum device_type
1331 o remove udevstart on make clean
1332 o volume_id: version 42
1333 o volume_id: version 41
1334 o remove unneeded include
1335 o The path to dlist.h is not correct
1336 o udevinfo -d: use '=' as separator, cause ':' may be a part of the devpath
1337 o klibc: version 1.0.3
1338 o add RELEASE-NOTES file
1339 o test suite: move "driver" link to physical device
1340 o remove PLACE key match
1341 o don't lookup "root" in the userdb
1343 o fix segfaulting udev while DRIVER matching
1345 o klibc: version 0.214
1346 o rename device_list->list to device_list->node
1347 o replace strncpy()/strncat() by strlcpy()/strlcat()
1348 o split udev and udevstart
1349 o udev_volume_id: version 39
1350 o rename LOG to USE_LOG in all places
1351 o remove Makefile magic for klibc integration
1352 o klibc_fixups: remove no longer needed stuff
1353 o udev_volume_id: volume_id v38
1354 o use numeric owner/group as default values to avoid parsing userdb
1355 o fix up segfaulting binaries with new klibc
1356 o udevinfo -d: speed-up device dump
1357 o klibc: version 0.211
1358 o klibc_fixups: remove unneeded stuff
1359 o replace weird defines by real code
1360 o udev-test.pl: remove useless tests
1361 o allow unlimitied count of symlinks
1362 o unmap db-file after use
1363 o remove typedef for call_foreach_file() handler function
1364 o correct udev_init_device
1365 o rename attributes to options
1366 o kill stupid gcc4 warning
1367 o trivial clenaup of namedev code
1368 o klibc: check for gcc4
1369 o klibc: update v0.205
1372 o gentoo rule update for raid devices
1375 Summary of changes from v053 to v054
1376 ============================================
1378 <tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
1379 o udev_volume_id: add Reiser4 support
1382 o namedev: skip backslashes only if followed by newline
1383 o wait_for_sysfs: add joydev
1384 o udevinfo: print devpath -> node relationship for all devices
1385 o trivial rename of some variables
1387 o big libsysfs diet (pre 2.0 version)
1388 o udev_volume_id: volume_id v35
1389 o add "serio" to bus list
1390 o determine device type in udev_init_device()
1391 o move kernel name/number evaluation into udev_init_device()
1392 o detect NAME="" as ignore_device rule
1393 o trivial namedev cleanup
1394 o cleanup db functions
1395 o clean up match_place()
1396 o switch device type to enum
1397 o switch major/minor to dev_t
1398 o remove the device node only if the major/minor number matches
1399 o libsysfs: work around a klibc bug
1400 o introduce OPTIONS=ignore_device, ignore_remove, all_partitions" key
1401 o namedev: execute PROGRAM only once and not possibly for every physical device
1404 o update scsi_id to work with libsysfs changes
1407 Summary of changes from v052 to v053
1408 ============================================
1411 o fix gentoo fb permission issue
1412 o allow simple-build-check.sh to go faster if MAKEOPTS is set
1413 o make the release tarballs have writable files in them
1414 o remove gentoo permission file as it's not valid anymore
1417 o fix special file mode mask for temporary device node
1418 o udevstart: simplify "dev" file searching
1419 o udev_volume_id: remove temporary node creation and parent handling
1420 o add %P modifier to query the node name of the parent device
1421 o udev_volume_id: remove __packed__ from dasd structure as it does not work
1422 o create /block/*/range count of partitons for all_partitions
1425 o scsi_id changes for use with udev %N and %p
1428 Summary of changes from v051 to v052
1429 ============================================
1432 o debian: update rules files
1433 o raid-devfs.sh: devfs names for hardware RAID controllers
1434 o scsi_id: when udevstart is started, /tmp is not writeable
1435 o cdsymlinks.sh: trivial fix, the variable is initialized to '', not 0
1437 <sschweizer:gmail.com>:
1438 o gentoo/udev.rules: add default permissions for sound devices
1441 o fix example comment in ide-devfs.sh
1442 o Add infiniband to gentoo rules
1443 o Another gentoo fix, adding dvb support
1444 o Fix gentoo bug #76056 (fb device group permissions.)
1445 o Fix gentoo bug #81102, device nodes for the pktcdvd device
1448 o provide temporary device node for callouts to access the device
1449 o udev_volume_id: fix dasd disklabel reading with -l option
1450 o udev_volume_id: volume_id version 034
1451 o udev_volume_id: rename probe_ibm into probe_dasd
1452 o udev_volume_id: volume_id version 032
1453 o Makefile: add some more warnings and prepare for clean gcc4 compile
1454 o Makefile: cleanup conditional config option sections
1455 o fix -Wsign-compare warnings
1456 o chassis_id: clean compilation and fix bad function parameter passing
1457 o simple_build_check: make it possible to pass KERNEL_DIR
1458 o selinux: cleanup udev integration
1461 o trivial: remove _all_ trailing slashes with no_trailing_slash()
1462 o trivial: fix signedness
1463 o namdev: allow symlink-only rules to specify node permissions
1464 o udevd: fix valgrind warning
1467 Summary of changes from v050 to v051
1468 ============================================
1470 <roland:digitalvampire.org>:
1471 o This fixes a silly mistake in how udevinfo prints the major and minor numbers (right now it prints the minor next to "MAJOR" and the major next to "MINOR" ;)
1473 <tklauser:access.unizh.chbk>:
1474 o I tried to compile udev 050plus with the GCC 4.0 snapshot 200412119 and got two errors about possibly uninitialized structs, so I fixed this.
1476 Christian BorntrÀger:
1477 o udev_volume_id: fix -d option
1480 o gentoo fb permission fix
1481 o fix gcc 2.96 issue in libsysfs
1482 o remove the lfs startup script on request of the author
1483 o clean up the aoe char device rules, and delete the block one as it's not needed
1484 o add aoe block and char device rules to the gentoo rule file
1485 o fix udev_volume_id build error
1488 o rearrange link order in Makefile
1491 o udev_volume_id: new version of volume_id
1492 o klibc: update to version 0.198
1493 o udev_volume_id: fix FAT label reading
1494 o klibc: update to version 0.196
1495 o udevd: throttle the forking of processes
1496 o udevd: add possible initialization of expected_seqnum
1497 o udevd: it's obviously not the brightest idea to exit a device node manager if it doesn't find /dev/null
1498 o udevd: separate socket handling to prepare for other event sources
1499 o udevd: support -d switch to become a daemon
1500 o udev_volume_id: version 27
1501 o udevd: split up message receiving an queueing
1502 o remove useless warning if udev.conf contains keys not read by udev itself
1503 o improve event sequence serialization
1504 o remove udevsend syslog noise on udevd startup
1505 o limit the initial timeout of the udevd event handling
1506 o correct detection of hotplug.d/ udevsend loop
1507 o correct log statement
1508 o remove default_* permissions from udev.conf file
1509 o update Fedora config files and add some more tests
1510 o allow permissions only rules
1511 o add SUBSYSTEM rule to catch all block devices and apply the disk permissions
1512 o update Fedora config files
1513 o handle renamed network interfaces properly if we manage hotplug.d/
1514 o allow multiline rules by backslash at the end of the line
1515 o add OnStream tape drive rules
1516 o simplify rules file by setting default mode to 0660
1517 o simplify permission application
1518 o I broke the extras/ again. Add simple build test script now
1519 o Merge vrfy.org:/home/kay/src/udev into vrfy.org:/home/kay/src/udev.kay
1520 o initial merge of fedora udev.permissions into udev.rules
1521 o remove permissions file mentioning from the udev man page
1522 o fix some typos in gentoo's udev.rules introduced by the merge
1525 o The attached patch fixes the code path if namedev_name_device() fails
1527 Summary of changes from v049 to v050
1528 ============================================
1530 <harald:redhat.com>:
1533 <tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
1534 o I made some more changes to the manpage of udev including
1537 o update libsysfs to CVS version and fix segfaulting attribute reading
1538 o klibc supports LOG_PID now, so remove our own implementation
1539 o avoid building klibc test programs and pass SUBDIRS= to klibc clean
1542 Summary of changes from v048 to v049
1543 ============================================
1546 o fix 'make clean' error in klibc
1549 o update klibc to 0.194
1550 o export DEVNAME regardless of the state of udev_dev_d
1551 o add class specific files for class/spi_transport and class/spi_host
1552 o udevd-test.pl: remove wrong date calculation
1553 o check earlier if we should run as udevstart
1554 o remove double initialization
1555 o include missing header to udevtest.c
1556 o add -V option to udev to print the version number
1557 o prevent udev node creatinon for "class" registration
1558 o udevd: serialization of the event sequence of a chain of devices
1559 o add a class/fc_host file to the list of what to wait for
1560 o udev_volume_id: links sysfs.a instead of all objects
1563 o remove leftover from udevinfo's -d option
1566 Summary of changes from v047 to v048
1567 ============================================
1570 o fix udev_volume_id so it will now build properly
1571 o fix scsi_id build errors due to changes in the main udev makefile
1574 Summary of changes from v046 to v047
1575 ============================================
1577 <klauser:access.unizh.ch>:
1578 o Various typos and other litte errors in udev.8.in
1580 <sjoerd:spring.luon.net>:
1581 o DEVNAME on device removal
1583 <sschweizer:gmail.com>:
1584 o Allow GROUP to have modifiers in it
1587 o add more debian rules files
1588 o move distro specific config files into their own directories
1589 o update debian rules files
1590 o added asterix rules to the gentoo file
1591 o use udevstart for udev.init.* files
1592 o delete a bunch of files no longer needed
1593 o fix gentoo scsi cdrom rule
1594 o Fix the multithreaded build again
1596 o comment out ability to run udev-test.pl with valgrind
1597 o fix spurious valgrind warning in udev
1598 o fix udevinfo '-q path' option as it was not working
1600 o fix parallel build error
1603 o update Fedora dev.d/ example and remove unused conf.d/ directory
1604 o don't install distribution specific init script on "make install"
1605 o restore OWNER/GROUP assignment in rule coming from RESULT
1606 o make gcov compile scripts working with recent gcc
1607 o fix udev-test/udev-test.pl to work with again
1608 o add net/atml and class/ppdev to the wait_for_sysfs exception list
1609 o add net/nlv* devices to the exception list
1610 o add "pcmcia" and "fc_transport" to the wait_for_sysfs lists
1611 o remove unused timestamp field
1612 o simplify permission handling
1613 o handle /etc/hotplug.d/ only if the event comes from udevd
1614 o trivial cleanups and change some comments
1615 o remove unused variables
1616 o udevsend/udevd handle events without a subsystem
1617 o use blacklist on device "remove" and remove dev.d/ call code duplication
1618 o update the man pages and correct Usage: hints
1619 o don't call the hotplug scripts with a test run
1620 o don't call dev.d/ scripts twice, if directory = subsystem
1621 o remove archive file if we changed something
1622 o link archive insted of objects
1623 o rename udev_lib to udev_utils and dev_d to udev_multiplex
1624 o handle whole hotplug event with udevd/udev
1625 o integrate wait_for_sysfs in udev
1626 o make the searched multiplex directories conditionally
1627 o add MANAGED_EVENT to the forked udev environment
1628 o export DEVNAME on remove event
1629 o export udev_log flag to the environment
1630 o remove my test code
1631 o add support for /devices-devices without any file to wait for
1632 o Patch from Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
1633 o add a bunch of busses to the list of what to wait for
1634 o close connection to syslog in forked udevd child
1635 o udevd exit path cleanup
1636 o fix network device naming bug
1639 Summary of changes from v045 to v046
1640 ============================================
1643 o make spotless for releases
1646 o Don't try to print major/minor for devices without a dev file
1647 o remove get_device_type and merge that into udev_set_values()
1648 o prevent udevd crash if DEVPATH is not set
1649 o add ippp and bcrypt to the exception lists of wait_for_sysfs
1650 o let klibc add the trailing newline to syslog conditionally
1651 o disable logging for udevstart
1652 o add NAME{ignore_remove} attribute
1653 o remove historical SYSFS_attr="value" format
1654 o don't wait for sysfs if the kernel(2.6.10-rc2) tells us what not to expect
1655 o change key names in udevinfo sysfs walk to match the kernel
1656 o support DRIVER as a rule key
1657 o support SUBSYSTEM as a rule key
1658 o rename udevdb* to udev_db*
1659 o Make dev.d/ handling a separate processing stage
1660 o make the udev object available to more processing stages
1661 o remove udev_lib dependency from udevsend, which makes it smaller
1662 o add ACTION to udev object to expose it to the whole process
1663 o make udevinfo's -r option also workimg for symlink queries
1664 o let udev act as udevstart if argv[1] == "udevstart"
1665 o improve udevinfo sysfs info walk
1666 o add sysfs info walk to udevinfo
1667 o pass the whole event environment to udevd
1668 o replace tdb database by simple lockless file database
1671 Summary of changes from v044 to v045
1672 ============================================
1675 o Some updates for Gentoo's udev rules
1678 Summary of changes from v043 to v044
1679 ============================================
1682 o add cdsymlinks.sh support to gentoo rules file
1683 o fix gentoo legacy tty rule
1684 o remove 'sudo' usage from the Makefile
1685 o make udev-test.pl test for root permissions before running
1688 o reduce syslog noise of udevsend if multiple instances try to start udevd
1689 o add i2c-dev to the list of devices without a bus
1692 Summary of changes from v042 to v043
1693 ============================================
1696 o add test target to makefile
1697 o add dumb script to show all sysfs devices in the system
1700 o Shut up wait_for_sysfs class/net failure messages, as it's not possible to
1701 get that right for all net devices. Kernels later than 2.6.10-rc1 will
1702 handle that by carrying the neccessary information in the hotplug event.
1703 o wait() for specific pid to return from fork()
1704 o Don't use any syslog() in signal handler, cause it may deadlock
1705 o Add support for highpoint ataraid to volume_id to suppress label reading on raid set members.
1706 o Add a bunch of devices without "device" symlinks
1707 o Exit, if udevtest cannot open the device (segfault)
1708 o Patches from Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
1709 o Apply the default permissions even if we found a entry in the permissions
1710 file. Correct one test, as the default is applied correctly now and the
1711 mode will no longer be 0000.
1712 o add test for format chars in multiple symlinks to replace
1713 o Add net/vmnet and class/zaptel to the list of devices without physical device
1716 Summary of changes from v040 to v042
1717 ============================================
1720 o add inotify to the rules for gentoo
1723 o skip waiting for device if we get a bad event for class creation and not for a device underneath it
1724 o add net/pan and net/bnep handling
1725 o switch wait for bus_file to stat() instead of open() add net/tun device handling add ieee1394 device handling
1726 o Remove the last klibc specific line from the main udev code Move _KLIBC_HAS_ARCH_SIG_ATOMIC_T to the fixup file which is automatically included by the Makefile is we build with klibc
1727 o ignore *.rej files from failed patches
1728 o update to libsysfs 1.2.0 and add some stuff klib_fixup Now we have only the sysfs.h file different from the upstream version to map our dbg() macro.
1729 o improve klibc fixup integration
1730 o cleanup udevd/udevstart
1731 o expose sysfs functions for sharing it
1734 Summary of changes from v039 to v040
1735 ============================================
1738 o wait_for_sysfs update for dm devices
1741 o sparse cleanups on the tree
1742 o fix stupid cut-and-paste error for msr devices on gentoo boxes
1743 o add *~ to bk ignore list
1744 o delete udevruler.c as per Kay's request
1745 o fix up the wait_for_sysfs_test script a bit
1748 o fix debug in volume id / fix clashing global var name
1751 o cleanup netif handling and netif-dev.d/ events
1752 o big cleanup of internal udev api
1753 o don't wait for dummy devices
1755 o Fix ppp net devices in wait_for_sysfs
1756 o Fix wait_for_sysfs messages (more debugging info)
1759 Summary of changes from v038 to v039
1760 ============================================
1763 o Hopefully fix the vcs issue in wait_for_sysfs
1764 o take out & from wait_for_sysfs_test that I previously missed
1765 o add very nice cdsymlinks scripts
1766 o add some helper scripts for dvb and input devices
1767 o add debian config files
1768 o let the extras/ programs build "pretty" also
1769 o tweak the ccdv program to handle files in subdirectories being built
1770 o crap, I messed up the 'sed' instances pretty badly, this fixes the config and man page mess
1771 o fix broken 'make -j5' functionality
1774 o swich attribute open() to simple stat()
1775 o wait_for_sysfs update for /class/firmware and /class/net/irda devices
1776 o fix unusual sysfs behavior for pcmcia_socket
1777 o remove sleeps from udev as it is external now
1782 o update udev to scsi_id 0.7
1783 o pass SYSFS setting down for extras builds
1784 o move assignments past local variables
1787 Summary of changes from v037 to v038
1788 ============================================
1790 <andrew.patterson:hp.com>:
1791 o Re: Problem parsing %s in udev rules
1794 o fix up error in building extras and libsysfs
1796 Summary of changes from v036 to v037
1797 ============================================
1803 o fix compilation warning in tdb log message
1804 o Fix build error with klibc due to recent changes
1806 o add wait_for_sysfs test script to the tarball to help people debug their boxes
1807 o add ipsec to wait_for_sysfs ignore list
1808 o added ccdv to bk ignore list
1809 o a few more Makefile tweaks for the quiet feature
1810 o Make the build silent, thanks to a helper program from ncftp
1811 o rename files to have '_' instead of '-' in them
1812 o change max time to wait in wait_for_sysfs to 10 seconds to hopefully handle some slow machines
1813 o add support for class/raw/ to wait_for_sysfs
1814 o fix up Makefile for wait_for_sysfs udev_version.h dependancy
1815 o remove the debian specific file, as they don't want to share with the rest of the world :(
1818 o prevent deadlocks on an corrupt udev database
1819 o wait_for_sysfs_update
1823 o fix incompatible pointer type warning
1826 Summary of changes from v035 to v036
1827 ============================================
1830 o add the error number to the error message in wait_for_sysfs to help out in debugging problems
1832 Summary of changes from v034 to v035
1833 ============================================
1836 o added ieee1394 support to wait_for_sysfs
1837 o update wait_for_sysfs with a bunch more devices thanks to user reports
1839 Summary of changes from v033 to v034
1840 ============================================
1843 o wait_for_sysfs bluetooth class update
1846 o add comment in wait_for_sysfs to explain the structure better
1847 o Revert previous dev_d.c change, it's not what is causing HAL problems
1848 o hm, somethings odd with DEVPATH, see if this fixes it
1849 o 33_bk mark for the makefile
1850 o wait_for_sysfs: clean up the logic for the list of devices that we do not expect device symlinks for
1851 o get rid of annoying extra lines in the syslog for some libsysfs debug messages
1852 o added support for i2c devices in wait_for_sysfs.c
1853 o add support for i2c-adapter devices to wait_for_sysfs.c
1855 Summary of changes from v032 to v033
1856 ============================================
1858 <harald:redhat.com>:
1859 o udev close on exec
1860 o some cleanups and security fixes
1861 o some cleanups and security fixes
1863 o cleanup PATCH for extras/chassis_id/Makefile
1865 <kpfleming:backtobasicsmgmt.com>:
1866 o respect prefix= setting in built udev.conf (updated)
1869 o add support for usb interfaces to wait_for_sysfs to keep it quiet
1870 o enable native tdb spinlocks on i386 platforms
1871 o delete extras/multipath-tools as per the author's request
1872 o be paranoid in dev_d.c
1873 o add USE_SELINUX to README documentation so people have a chance to see what is going on
1874 o update the selinux.h file to start to look sane
1875 o update bk ignore list for the wait_for_sysfs binary
1876 o kdetv wants to see device nodes in /dev
1877 o update comments in scsi-devfs.sh
1878 o fix up Makefiles to get the klibc build working properly
1879 o update bk ignore list for new klibc generated files
1880 o oops forgot to add the new klibc/include directory
1881 o update klibc to version 0.181
1884 o fix problems with dev.d and udevstart
1885 o wait_for_sysfs debug cleanup
1886 o fix problems using scsi_id with udevstart
1888 o finally solve the bad sysfs-timing for all of us
1889 o volume-id build fix and update
1890 o switch udev's seqnum to u64
1892 o fix udev segfaults with bad permissions file
1895 o update udev to include scsi_id 0.6
1898 Summary of changes from v031 to v032
1899 ============================================
1901 <harald:redhat.com>:
1905 o handle only block and class devices
1906 o fix udevstart badly broken in udev 031
1909 Summary of changes from v030 to v031
1910 ============================================
1912 <arun:codemovers.org>:
1913 o udev - read long lines from config files overflow fix
1915 <ballarin.marc:gmx.de>:
1916 o Update the FAQ with info about hardlink security
1919 o compatibility symlinks for udev
1922 o Minor POSIX-fixes for udev
1925 o add symlink for video rule
1926 o add a "first" list to udevstart and make it contain the class/mem/ devices
1927 o fix compiler warning in udevtest.c
1928 o Fix old-style pty breakage in rules file for tty device
1929 o add rules for i386 cpu devices
1930 o add permission for legotower usb devices
1933 o Fix naming ethernet devices in udevstart
1934 o update udev_volume_id
1935 o let /sbin/hotplug execute udev earlier
1936 o pass SEQNUM trough udevd
1937 o fix manpages based on esr's spambot
1940 o add microcode rule to permissions.gentoo file
1943 o Try to provide a bit of security for hardlinks to /dev entries
1946 o udevsend depends on udev_lib.o
1950 o clean up start_udev a bit
1951 o Make udev/udevstart be one binary
1952 o Add 'asmlinkage' to udev-030
1955 Summary of changes from v029 to v030
1956 ============================================
1959 o fix stupid off-by-one bug that caused udevstart to die on x86-64 boxes
1962 Summary of changes from v028 to v029
1963 ============================================
1966 o add permission rule for jogdial device
1967 o fix dumb bug I added to udevstart
1968 o make a "last list" of devices for udevstart to operate on last
1969 o fix permission problem with input event and ts nodes for gentoo
1970 o change default perms of misc/rtc to be readable by anyone
1973 o allow NAME_SIZE > SYSFS_PATH_MAX
1976 Summary of changes from v027 to v028
1977 ============================================
1979 <atul.sabharwal:intel.com>:
1980 o Patch for chassis_id exras module
1983 o Writing udev rules doc update
1986 o clean up block whitelist search logic a bit
1987 o reverse order of scanning of udevstart to look at class before block
1990 o update udev_volume_id
1993 o udevstart performance increase
1996 o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.5
1999 Summary of changes from v026 to v027
2000 ============================================
2002 <fork0:users.sf.net>:
2003 o fix handle leak in udev_lib.c
2006 o tweak the gentoo default permission rules as they are wrong for tty and misc devices
2009 Summary of changes from v025 to v026
2010 ============================================
2016 o add test for ! in partition name
2018 o Update to version 117 of klibc (from version 108)
2019 o add volume_id ignore rule for bk
2020 o add volume_id support to the udev.spec file
2021 o remove dbus and selinux stuff from the udev.spec file
2022 o delete udev_selinux as it doesn't work properly and is the wrong way to do it
2023 o Deleted the udev_dbus extra as it didn't really work properly and HAL has a real solution now
2024 o add udev.permissions.slackware file
2025 o udevstart: close open directories
2029 o catchup with recent klibc
2030 o Re: udevsend fallback
2031 o udev_volume_id update
2032 o udev callout for reading filesystem labels
2033 o udev callout for reading filesystem labels
2034 o udev default config layout changes
2037 o evaluate getenv() return value for udev_config.c
2039 Summary of changes from v024 to v025
2040 ============================================
2043 o devfs.sh-ide-floppy
2045 <sjoerd:spring.luon.net>:
2046 o DEVNODE -> DEVNAME transition fixes
2049 o Update writing udev rules docs
2052 o make dev.d call each directory in the directory chain of the device name, instead of just the whole name
2053 o add devd_test script
2054 o add more permissions based on SuSE's recommendations
2055 o added rules for tun and raw devices
2056 o add udev conf.d file
2057 o Switch the default config to point to a directory for the rules and permission files
2058 o update the Red Hat .dev files to work on other distros
2059 o add dbus.dev, pam_console.dev and selinux.dev files for /etc/dev.d/default/ usage
2060 o add hints for red hat users from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
2061 o add scripts to run gcov for udev from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
2062 o change permissions on udevd test scripts
2063 o Fix build process for users who have LC_ALL set to a non-english language
2064 o Added expanded tests to the test framework from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
2065 o added execelent "writing udev rules" document from Daniel Drake <dan@reactivated.net>
2066 o added rule to put USB printers in their proper places
2067 o added rules for CAPI devices
2068 o added a dev.d alsa script to help people out
2071 o fix test regressions
2072 o udev_selinux changes
2075 o fix devpath for netdev
2081 Summary of changes from v023 to v024
2082 ============================================
2084 <atul.sabharwal:intel.com>:
2085 o Add README for chassis_id
2086 o Add chassis_id program to extras directory
2088 <chris_friesen:sympatico.ca>:
2089 o udevd race conditions and performance, assorted cleanups
2092 o fix SEGV in libsysfs/dlist.c
2094 <maryedie:osdl.org>:
2095 o add OSDL documentation for persistent naming
2098 o small ide-devfs.sh fix
2101 o remove compiler warning from udevd.c
2102 o only generate udev.8 on the fly, not all other man pages
2103 o update bk ignore list some more
2104 o update bk ignore list
2105 o switch to generate the man pages during the normal build, not during the install
2106 o convert udev.8.in to use @udevdir@ macro for make install
2107 o first step of making man pages dynamically generated
2108 o add install and uninstall the etc/dev.d/net/hotplug.dev file to the Makefile
2109 o tweak net_test a bit
2110 o fix some segfaults when running udevtest for network devices
2111 o make a net_test test script using udevtest
2112 o handle the subsytem if provided in udevtest
2113 o add hotplug.dev script to handle renamed network devices
2114 o add a bunch of network class devices to the test sysfs tree
2115 o add udevruler to the bk ignore list
2116 o update RFC-dev.d docs due to DEVNODE to DEVNAME change
2117 o clean up chassis_id coding style
2118 o clean up the OSDL document formatting a bit
2119 o add netlink rules to devfs and gentoo rules files
2120 o added USB device rules to rules files
2121 o clean up the gentoo rules file a bit more, adding dri rules
2122 o fix up udev.rules to handle oss rules better
2124 o fix udev.spec file for where udevtest should be placed
2127 o tweak node unlink handling
2128 o switch udevd's msg_dump() to #define
2129 o handle netdev in udevruler
2131 o put config info in db for netdev
2132 o increase udevd event timeout
2134 o put netdev handling and dev.d/ in manpages
2135 o DEVPATH for netdev
2136 o netdev - udevdb+dev.d changes
2137 o udevd race conditions and performance, assorted cleanups - take 2
2139 o dev_d.c file sorting and cleanup
2140 o apply all_partitions rule to main block device only
2143 Summary of changes from v022 to v023
2144 ============================================
2147 o hmm, handle net devices with udev?
2148 o correct apply_format() for symlink only rules
2149 o don't init namedev on remove
2150 o first stupid try for a rule compose gui
2151 o replace fgets() with mmap() and introduce udev_lib.[hc]
2152 o make udevtest a real program :)
2154 Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
2158 o create the /etc/dev.d/ directories in 'make install'
2159 o actually have udev run files ending in .dev in the /etc/dev.d/ directory as documented
2160 o added RFC-dev.d document detailing how /etc/dev.d/ works
2161 o fixed up udev.spec to handle selinux stuff properly now
2162 o remove USE_DBUS and USE_SELINUX flags from the README as they are no longer present
2163 o remove selinux stuff from the main Makefile
2164 o move udev_selinux into extras/selinux
2165 o fix dbus build in the udev.spec file
2166 o remove dbus stuff from main Makefile
2167 o move udev_dbus to extras/dbus
2168 o udev_dbus can now compile properly, but linnking is another story
2169 o remove udev_dbus.h from Makefile
2170 o first cut at standalone udev_selinux program
2171 o remove selinux support from udev core as it's no longer needed
2172 o first cut at standalone udev_dbus program
2173 o add get_devnode() helper to udev_lib for udev_dbus program
2174 o remove dbus code from core udev code as it's no longer needed to be there
2175 o add /etc/dev.d/ support for udev add and remove events
2176 o fix build error in namedev.c caused by previous patch
2178 o fix 'make spotless' to really do that in klibc
2179 o add a question/answer about automounting usb devices to the FAQ
2180 o mark scsi-devfs.sh as executable
2181 o Increase the name size as requested by Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
2182 o fix udevtest to build properly after the big udev_lib change
2185 o uninitialized variable for mknod and friend
2188 o SCSI logical and physical names for udev
2191 o Trivial man page typo fixes to udev
2194 Summary of changes from v021 to v022
2195 ============================================
2197 <ananth:in.ibm.com>:
2198 o more Libsysfs updates
2201 <async:cc.gatech.edu>:
2202 o fix HOWTO-udev_for_dev for udevdir
2205 o udev-test.pl cleanup
2206 o add dev node test to udev-test.pl
2207 o add permission tests
2208 o "symlink only" test
2209 o callout part selector tweak
2210 o cleanup callout fork
2211 o allow to specify node permissions in the rule
2213 o put symlink only rules to the man page
2214 o rename strn*() macros to strmax
2215 o conditional remove of trailing sysfs whitespace
2216 o clarify udevinfo text
2217 o better fix for NAME="foo-%c{N}" gets a truncated name
2218 o overall trivial trivial cleanup
2219 o fix NAME="foo-%c{N}" gets a truncated name
2220 o cleanup mult field string handling
2223 o fix a type in docs/libsysfs.txt
2224 o Added line to udev.permissions.redhat
2225 o Include more examples in the docs area for gentoo and redhat
2231 o add big major tests to udev-test.pl
2232 o add a test for a minor over 255
2233 o udev-test.pl: print out major:minor and perm test "ok" if is ok
2234 o make perm and major:minor test errors be reported properly
2235 o remove extra ; in namedev_parse.c
2236 o Added multipath-tools 0.1.1 release
2237 o deleted current extras/multipath directory
2239 o fix the build for older versions of gcc
2242 o Small fix to remove extra "will" in man page
2246 o udev* segfaults with new klibc
2249 o add tests for NAME="foo-%c{N}"
2251 Summary of changes from v020 to v021
2252 ============================================
2255 o install udevinfo in /usr/bin
2256 o blacklist pcmcia_socket
2259 o fix udev.spec to find udevinfo now that it has moved to /usr/bin
2260 o Fix another problem with Makefile installing initscript
2261 o fix the Makefile to install the init script into the proper directory
2262 o make spec file turn off selinux support by default
2265 Summary of changes from v019 to v020
2266 ============================================
2268 <christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
2272 o man page udevstart
2274 o bugfix for local user
2277 o clarify udevinfo device walk
2278 o udevinfo symlink reverse query
2279 o fix stroul endptr use
2280 o add $local user spport for permissions
2281 o udev - man page update
2282 o udev - fix debug info for multiple rule file config
2283 o udev - kill udevd on install
2284 o udev - activate formt length attribute
2285 o udev - safer sprintf() use
2288 o no error on enoent
2289 o escape dashes in man pages
2290 o remove usage of expr in ide-devfs.sh
2293 o automatically install correct initscript
2294 o update documetation for $local
2297 o Add symlink only rules support
2300 o update the TODO list as we already have a devfs config file
2301 o make start_udev use udevstart binary
2303 o Remove Debian permission files as the Debian maintainer doesn't seem to want to share :(
2304 o update the Gentoo rules files
2305 o Add Red Hat rules and permissions files
2306 o add udevstart to the ignore list
2307 o add udevstart program based on a old patch from Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
2308 o unlink the file before we try to create it
2309 o Merge greg@bucket:/home/greg/src/udev into kroah.com:/home/greg/src/udev
2312 Summary of changes from v018 to v019
2313 ============================================
2317 o udev - correct relative symlink
2318 o udev - safer string handling - part four
2319 o udev - safer string handling - part three
2320 o udev - safer string handling - part two
2321 o udev - man page update
2322 o udev - safer string handling all over the place
2324 o udev - allow all files in a directory as the config
2325 o udev - simple klibc textual uid/gid handling
2328 o do not remove real .udev.tdb during RPM build
2331 o add new TODO item about local user permissions
2332 o Add initial SELinux support for udev
2333 o fix build for very old versions of make
2334 o remove limit of the number of args passed to PROGRAM
2335 o force udev to include the internal version of libsysfs and never the external one
2336 o fix up libsysfs header file usage to fix bug reports from users that have sysfsutils installed already
2337 o remove udevtest on 'make clean'
2338 o remove udevd priority TODO item, as it's not needed at all
2341 o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.4
2344 Summary of changes from v017 to v018
2345 ============================================
2347 <ext.devoteam.varoqui:sncf.fr>:
2348 o [PATCH] symlink dm-[0-9]* rule
2349 o update extras/multipath
2351 <john-hotplug:fjellstad.org>:
2352 o init.d debian patch
2355 o udev - TODO update
2356 o udev - add %s{filename} to man page
2357 o udev - udevd/udevsend man page
2358 o udev - switch callout part selector to {attribute}
2359 o udev - switch SYSFS_file to SYSFS{file}
2360 o udev - create all partitions of blockdevice
2362 o Adding '%s' format specifier to NAME and SYMLINK
2365 o added some scsi_id files to the bk ignore file
2366 o added scsi_id and some more documentation to the udev.spec file
2367 o update udev.rules.gentoo with new config file format
2368 o Update the Gentoo udev.rules and udev.permissions files
2369 o Create a udev.rules.examples file to hold odd udev.rules
2370 o add udevd priority issue to the TODO list
2371 o more HOWTO cleanups
2372 o add HOWTO detailing how to use udev to manage /dev
2373 o mv libsysfs/libsysfs.h to libsysfs/sysfs/libsysfs.h to make it easier to use
2374 o add start_udev init script
2375 o add support for UDEV_NO_SLEEP env variable so Gentoo people will be happy
2376 o start up udevd ourselves in the init script to give it some good priorities
2377 o update the red hat init script to handle nodes that are not present
2378 o add a "old style" SYSFS_attribute test to udev-test.pl
2379 o Have udevsend report more info in debug mode
2380 o Have udevd report it's version in debug mode
2381 o fix up bug created for udevtest in previous partition creation patch
2382 o update the udev.spec to add udevtest and make some more Red Hat suggested changes
2383 o add ability to install udevtest to Makefile
2385 o Add another test to udev-test.pl and fix a bug when only running 1 test
2386 o Fix bug where we did not use the "converted" kernel name if we had no rule
2389 o udev use new libsysfs header file location
2390 o udev add some ID tests
2393 Summary of changes from v016 to v017
2394 ============================================
2396 <azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
2397 o make logging a config option
2399 <christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
2400 o more udev-016/extras/multipath
2401 o more udev-016/extras/multipath
2402 o update extras/multipath
2405 o udev - keep private data out of the database?
2406 o better credential patch
2407 o udevd - client access authorization
2408 o compile udevd with klibc
2409 o udev - fix "ignore method"
2410 o udev - fix cdrom symlink rule
2411 o convert udevsend/udevd to DGRAM and single-threaded
2412 o udevd - kill the lockfile
2413 o udevd - fix socket path length
2414 o udevd - switch socket path to abstract namespace
2415 o udevd - allow to bypass sequence number
2416 o include used function
2419 o add udev_log to the documentation
2420 o fix offsetof() define in klibc
2421 o add some .spec file changes from Red Hat
2422 o update the init.d udev script based on a patch from Red Hat
2423 o remove the .udev.tdb when installing or uninstalling to be safe
2424 o remove the database at startup
2425 o fix bug in permission handling
2426 o update klibc to version .107
2427 o update the bitkeeper ignore file list
2428 o add udevtest program to build
2429 o fix problem where usb devices can be either the main device or the interface
2430 o more logging.h cleanups to be a bit more flexible
2431 o stop using mode_t as different libcs define it in different ways :(
2432 o remove some more KLIBC fixups that are no longer needed
2433 o let udev-test.pl run an individual test if you ask it to
2434 o Handle the '!' character that some block devices have
2435 o add a block device with a ! in the name, and a test for this
2436 o fix up 'make release' to use bk to build the export tree
2437 o fix log option code so that it actually works for all udev programs
2438 o finish syncing up with klibc
2439 o sync with latest version of klibc (0.107)
2440 o fix up Makefile dependancies for udev_version.h
2443 o udev add wild card compare for ID
2444 o udev kill extra bus_id compares in match_id
2447 Summary of changes from v015 to v016
2448 ============================================
2450 <elkropac:students.zcu.cz>:
2451 o get_dev_number() in extras/ide-devfs.sh
2454 o FAQ udev.rules.devfs
2457 o add udevd and udevsend to the spec file
2458 o make /etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug symlink point to udevsend now
2459 o add KERNEL_DIR option so that the distros will be happy
2460 o make udevsend binary even smaller
2461 o udevsend now almost compiles with klibc, struct sockaddr_un is only problem now
2462 o fix up logging code so that it can be built without it being enabled
2463 o rework the logging code so that each program logs with the proper name in the syslog
2464 o remove logging.c as it's no longer needed
2465 o kill the last examples that contained the %D option
2466 o remove a __KLIBC__ tests in libsysfs, as klibc now supports getpagesize()
2467 o udevd - remove stupid locking error I wrote
2468 o update to klibc version 0.101, fixing the stdin bug
2469 o fix Makefile typo for USE_LSB install
2470 o allow dbus code to actually build again
2473 o let udevsend build with klibc
2474 o udevd - config cleanup
2475 o udevd - cleanup and better timeout handling
2476 o fix possible buffer overflow
2477 o udevd - next round of fixes
2478 o udevinfo - missing options for man page
2479 o udev - trivial style cleanup
2482 Summary of changes from v014 to v015
2483 ============================================
2485 <mbuesch:freenet.de>:
2486 o LFS init script update
2489 o update klibc to version 0.98
2490 o clean up udevinfo on 'make clean'
2491 o add udevinfo man page to spec file
2492 o remove command line documentation from udev man page
2493 o create initial version of udevinfo man page
2494 o added URL to spec file
2495 o add udevinfo to udev.spec file
2496 o add udevinfo to install target of Makefile
2497 o rip out command line code from udev, now that we have udevinfo
2498 o udevinfo doesn't need to declare main_envp
2499 o move get_pair to udev_config.c because udevinfo doesn't need all of namedev.o
2500 o more makefile cleanups
2501 o move udevinfo into the main build and clean up the main Makefile a bit
2502 o clean up compiler warnings if building using klibc
2503 o make udevd only have one instance running at a time
2504 o new testd.block script for debugging
2505 o udevsnd : clean up message creation logic a bit
2506 o make bk ignore udevd and udevsend binaries
2507 o whitespace cleanups
2508 o remove TODO item about BUS value, as it is now done
2509 o add support for figuring out which device on the sysfs "chain" the rule applies to
2512 o udevinfo - now a real program :)
2513 o udevd - cleanup and better timeout handling
2514 o udev - next round of udev event order daemon
2516 o udev - udevinfo with device chain walk
2517 o spilt udev into pieces
2520 Summary of changes from v013 to v014
2521 ============================================
2523 <ananthmg:rediffmail.com>:
2524 o libsysfs update for refresh + namedev.c changes
2526 <christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
2527 o udev-013/extras/multipath update
2529 <flamingice:sourmilk.net>:
2530 o minor patch for devfs rules
2533 o udev - program to query all device attributes to build a rule
2534 o set default owner/group in db - update
2535 o udev - reverse user query options
2536 o udev - kill %D from udev-test.pl
2537 o add udev logging to info log
2538 o udev - mention format string escape char in man page
2541 o misc code cleanups
2542 o fixup logging.h to handle different logging options properly
2543 o clean up the logging patch a bit to make the option more like the other options
2544 o remove the %D modifier as it is not longer needed
2545 o remove unneeded keyboard rule
2546 o add usb_host and pci_bus to the class blacklist
2547 o added input device rules to udev.rules and udev.rules.devfs
2551 o set default owner/group in db
2552 o small cut n paste error fix
2555 o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.3
2558 Summary of changes from v012 to v013
2559 ============================================
2561 <eike-hotplug:sf-tec.de>:
2562 o LSB init script and other stuff
2564 <elkropac:students.zcu.cz>:
2565 o fix udev directory for Debian init script
2567 <tiggi:infa.abo.fi>:
2568 o udev 012 old gcc fixup
2571 o add IGNORE rule type
2575 o update TODO with some new, small items
2576 o Cset exclude: greg@kroah.com|ChangeSet|20040113010256|48515
2577 o update the README in a few places
2578 o fix -d typo in the manpage update
2579 o Fix stupid gcc "optimization" of 1 character printk() calls.... Ick
2580 o oops, forgot to fix up the PROGRAM result from ID to RESULT in the config files
2581 o Add alsa device rules and a few other devfs rules
2582 o fix a few stale comments in namedev.c
2583 o convert the default rules files to the new format
2584 o convert the test shell scripts to the config file format
2585 o add bus test for usb-serial bus
2586 o Add some helpful messages if the user uses the older config file format
2587 o added dri rule to the default config file
2588 o added init.d udev script for debian
2589 o add a script that tests the IGNORE rule
2590 o add silly script that names cdrom drives based on the cd in them
2591 o add cdrom rule for ide cdrom
2592 o replace list_for_each with list_for_each_entry, saving a few lines of code
2593 o add a blacklist of class devices we do not want to look at
2596 o fix klibc with printf() and gcc
2597 o udev - small script optimization
2598 o udev - introduce format escape char
2599 o udev - more CALLOUT is PROGRAM now
2600 o udev - CALLOUT is PROGRAM now
2601 o update documentation for new config file format
2602 o more advanced user query options
2603 o udev - simple debug tweak
2604 o udev - drop all methods :)
2605 o udev - advanced user query options
2606 o udev - Makefile error
2607 o udev - make exec_callout() reusable
2608 o udev - exec status fix for klibc
2609 o fix Silly udev script
2612 Summary of changes from v011 to v012
2613 ============================================
2615 <azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
2616 o make symlink work properly if there is already a file in its place
2617 o Fix udev gcc-2.95.4 compat
2619 <christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
2620 o extras multipath update
2621 o extras multipath update
2624 o mention user callable udev + options in man page
2625 o make udev user callable to query the database
2626 o depend on all .h files
2627 o cleanup namedev_parse debug text
2628 o extend exec_program[]
2629 o ide-devfs.sh update
2630 o fix for apply_format()
2631 o check for empty symlink string
2632 o 'ide' missing in bus_files[]
2633 o small trivial cleanup of latest changes
2635 <mbuesch:freenet.de>:
2636 o introduce signal handler
2639 o udev spec file update
2642 o minor grammer fixes for the udev_vs_devfs document
2643 o move the dbus config file to etc/dbus-1/system.d/
2644 o move the config files to etc/udev to clean up main directory a bit
2645 o add Gentoo versions of the rules and permissions files
2646 o if using glibc, link dynamically, as no one like 500Kb udev binaries
2647 o minor change to udev_vs_devfs document
2648 o added udev vs devfs supid document to the tree
2649 o move the signal handling registration to after we have initialized enough stuff
2650 o make ide-devfs.sh executable in the tree
2651 o udev.permissions.debian - forgot the dm nodes
2652 o update the udev.permissions.debian file with new entries
2653 o added udev.init script for the Linux From Scratch project
2657 Summary of changes from v010 to v011
2658 ============================================
2660 <mbuesch:freenet.de>:
2661 o proper cleanup on udevdb_init() failure
2664 o patch udev 009-010 rpm spec file
2667 o fix udev sed Makefile usage
2670 o add documentation about the BUS key being optional for the LABEL rule
2671 o add tests for LABEL rule with a device that has no bus
2672 o Don't require the BUS value for the LABEL rule
2673 o If a LABEL rule has a BUS id, then we must check to see if the device is on a bus
2674 o add documentation about the BUS key being optional for the CALLOUT rule
2675 o If a CALLOUT rule has a BUS id, then we must check to see if the device is on a bus
2676 o Don't require the BUS value for the CALLOUT rule
2677 o add test for callout rule with a device that has no bus
2679 o added different build options to the rpm udev.spec file
2680 o add pci to the bus_files list
2681 o check for empty line a bit better in the parser
2682 o more init script cleanups, the stop target now calls udev to cleanup instead of just removing the whole /udev directory
2683 o make udev init script run udev in the background to let startup go much faster
2684 o fix long delay for all devices in namedev
2687 Summary of changes from v009 to v010
2688 ============================================
2690 <ananth:in.ibm.com>:
2693 <christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
2694 o extras multipath update
2695 o extras multipath update
2696 o extras multipath update
2697 o extras multipath update
2701 o small cleanup udev-remove.c
2702 o experimental CALLOUT script for devfs ide node creation with cd, disc, part
2703 o add any valid device
2704 o introduce format char 'k' for kernel-name
2705 o trivial make fixes
2706 o don't overwrite old config on install
2707 o udev-remove.c cleanups
2708 o bug in udev-remove.c
2709 o trivial cleanup parser changes
2711 <roman.kagan:itep.ru>:
2712 o fix comment and whitespace handling in config files
2715 o Allow build with empty EXTRAS
2717 Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
2718 o libsysfs 0.4.0 patch
2719 o fix scsi_id segfault with udev-009
2723 o mark config files as such in the rpm spec file
2726 o fix complier warning in namedev.c
2727 o add documentation for the new '%k' modifier (kernel name replacement)
2728 o add documentation about the multiple sysfs values that are now allowed for the LABEL rule
2729 o add tests for multi-file LABEL rules
2730 o add ability to have up to 5 SYSFS_ file/value pairs for the LABEL rule
2731 o Just live with a sleep(1) in namedev for now until libsysfs is fixed up
2732 o try to wait until the proper device file shows up in sysfs
2733 o remove unneeded TODO and FIXME entry
2734 o clean up the stand-alone tests to work properly on other people's machines
2735 o add tests to catch whitespace and comment config file parsing errors
2738 Summary of changes from v008 to v009
2739 ============================================
2741 <christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
2742 o more extras/multipath changes
2743 o and more extras/multipath updates
2744 o more extras/multipath updates
2745 o yet more extras/multipath
2746 o more extras/multipath updates
2747 o extras/multipath update
2750 o D-BUS patch for udev-008
2752 <eike-hotplug:sf-tec.de>:
2753 o add init.d/udev to "make install"
2754 o add init.d/udev to the spec file
2757 o don't rely on field order in namedev_parse
2758 o get part of callout return string
2759 o remove '\n' from end of callout return
2760 o man-page mention multiple symlinks
2761 o allow multiple symlinks
2762 o cleanup man & remove symlink comment
2763 o experimental (very simple) SYMLINK creation
2765 o pattern match for label method
2766 o a bug in linefeed removal
2769 o remove udev from runlevels on uninstall
2770 o install initscript in udev rpm
2772 Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
2773 o pre-libsysfs-0.4.0 patch
2776 o signal fixes due to klibc update
2777 o sync klibc with release 0.95
2778 o add mol permissions to the debian permissions file
2779 o update the FAQ with info about bad modprobe events from the devfs scheme
2780 o some cleanups due to the need for LABEL rules to use "SYSFS_" now
2781 o Add restart target to the etc/init.d/udev script
2782 o tweak the config file generation portion of the Makefile a bit
2783 o change devfs disk name rule from 'disk' to 'disc'
2784 o add vc support to udev.rules.devfs
2785 o added a devfs udev config file from Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
2786 o set default mode to 0600 to be safer
2787 o Makefile tweaks for the DBUS build
2788 o update the FAQ due to the latest devfs mess on lkml and also due to symlinks now working
2789 o document the different Makefile config options that we have
2790 o change USE_DBUS to DBUS in Makefile, and disable it by default as it's still to hard to build on all systems
2791 o fix formatting of udev_dbus.c to use tabs. Also get it to build properly now
2792 o move all of the DBUS logic into one file and remove all of the #ifdef crud from the main code
2795 o dump latest klibc into the udev build tree
2796 o use udevdir in udev.conf
2799 o better allow builds of extras programs under udev
2800 o update udev extras/scsi_id to version 0.2
2803 Summary of changes from v007 to v008
2804 ============================================
2806 <azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
2807 o more config file parsing robustness
2809 <christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
2810 o udev-007/extras/multipath update
2813 o Build failure - missing linux/limits.h include?
2814 o Add format modifier for devfs like naming
2815 o klibc makefile fixes
2817 Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
2818 o another patch for path problem
2819 o quick fix for libsysfs bus
2820 o libsysfs changes for sysfsutils 0.3.0
2823 o fix up some duplicated function compiler warnings in libsysfs
2824 o fix some compiler warnings in the tdb code
2825 o Added Kay's name to the man page
2826 o update the wildcard documentation in the man page to show the new styles supported
2827 o fix permission handling logic
2828 o enable default_mode ability to actually build
2829 o add support for the default_mode variable, as it is documented
2830 o show permissions and groups in the label_test
2831 o remove some items off of the TODO list, as they are now done
2832 o fix up the tests to work without all of the environ variables
2833 o get rid of the majority of the debug environment variables
2834 o Update the man page to show the new config file, it's format, and how to use it
2835 o fix up the tests to support the rules file name change
2836 o add support for a main udev config file, udev.conf
2837 o turn debugging messages off by default
2838 o split out the namedev config parsing logic to namedev_parse.c
2839 o rename namedev's get_attr() to be main namedev_name_device() as that's what it really is
2840 o add devfs like tty rules as an example in the default config file
2841 o operate on the rules in the order they are in the config file (within the rule type) instead of operating on them backwards.
2842 o Cset exclude: dsteklof@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20031126173159|56255
2843 o add test for checking the BUS value
2844 o fix problem where we were not looking at the BUS value
2845 o add scsi and pci bus links in the test sysfs tree
2846 o add test and documentation for new %D devfs format modifier
2847 o changed the default location of the database to /udev/.udev.tdb to be LSB compliant
2848 o get rid of functions in klibc_fixups that are now in klibc
2849 o sync up with the 0.84 version of klibc
2850 o fix udev init.d script to handle all class devices in sysfs
2851 o fix the test.block and test.tty scripts due to their moveing. Also add a test.all script
2852 o 007_bk version change to Makefile
2855 o pattern matching for namedev
2856 o catch replace device by wildcard
2857 o udev.8 tweak numeric id text
2858 o udev-test.pl add subdir test
2859 o namedev.c strcat tweak
2860 o overall whitespace + debug text conditioning
2861 o udev-test.pl - tweaks
2864 o Add -nodefaultlibs while compiling against klibc
2867 o ARCH detection for ppc
2870 o fix udev parallel builds with klibc
2873 Summary of changes from v006 to v007
2874 ============================================
2877 o fix segfault in parsing bad udev.permissions file
2880 o update default config file with a CALLOUT rule, and more documentation
2881 o updated the man page with the latest format specifier changes
2882 o added ability to put format specifiers in the CALLOUT program string
2883 o tweak udev-test.pl to report '0' errors if that's what happened
2884 o only build klibc_fixups.c if we are actually using klibc
2885 o add support for string group and string user names in udev.permissions
2886 o add getgrnam and getpwnam to klibc_fixups files
2887 o remove Makefile.klibc
2888 o add udev-test perl script from Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> which blows away my puny shell scripts
2889 o added debian's version of udev.permissions
2890 o change to 006_bk version
2893 o format char for CALLOUT output
2894 o more namedev whitespace cleanups
2895 o support arguments in callout exec
2896 o namedev.c - change order of fields in CALLOUT
2897 o namedev.c whitespace + debug text cleanup
2898 o man page with udev.permissions wildcard
2901 o static klibc udev does not link against crt0.o
2903 Summary of changes from v005 to v006
2904 ============================================
2906 <chris_friesen:sympatico.ca>:
2907 o faster test scripts
2910 o more robust config file parsing in namedev.c
2911 o add bus id modifier
2913 Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
2914 o patch for libsysfs sysfs directory handling
2917 o add another line to udev.permissions in the proper format
2918 o tweak replace_test
2919 o fix permissions to work properly now
2920 o add real udev.permissions file to test directory
2921 o fix namedev.c to build with older version of gcc
2922 o add dumb test for all of the different modifiers
2923 o update the TODO list with more items that people can easily do
2924 o move the test.block and test.tty scripts to the test/ directory
2925 o add remove actions to the test scripts
2926 o turn DEBUG_PARSER off by default
2927 o add some documentation for the %b modifier to the default config file
2928 o fix make install rule for when the udev symlink is already there
2929 o change release target in makefile
2930 o change debug level on printf values for now
2931 o updated demo config file
2932 o add some documentation of the modifiers to the default config file
2933 o add demo config file
2934 o updated bk ignore list for klibc generated files
2935 o add printf option to label test to verify it works
2936 o fix up printf-like functionality due to previous changes
2937 o get the major/minor number before we name the device
2938 o add scsi_id "extra" program from Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
2939 o Add multipath "extra" program from Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
2940 o trailing whitespace cleanups
2941 o splig LABEL and NUMBER into separate functions
2942 o add TOPO regression test
2943 o move TOPOLOGY rule to it's own function
2944 o fix bug where NUMBER and TOPOLOGY would not work for partitions
2945 o clean up the way we find the sysdevice for a block device for namedev
2946 o updated label test script (tests for partitions now.)
2947 o split REPLACE and CALLOUT into separate functions
2948 o add debug line for REPLACE call
2950 o add more sysfs test tree files
2951 o change UDEV_SYSFS_PATH environment variable due to libsysfs change
2952 o fix bug in klibc's isspace function
2953 o fix udev-add.c to build properly with older versions of gcc
2954 o add prototype for ftruncate to klibc
2955 o Remove a few items from the TODO list that are already done
2956 o version number to 005_bk
2957 o pull some klibc stuff into the make Makefile to try to stay in sync
2961 o apply permissions.conf support for wildcard and default name
2962 o man page with included placeholder list
2963 o implement printf-like placeholder support for NAME
2964 o more manpage tweaks
2965 o add support for subdirs
2966 o add uid/gid to nodes
2972 o Fixup path for kernel includes when building with klibc
2978 Summary of changes from v004 to v005
2979 ============================================
2982 o namedev.c comments + debug patch
2986 o ignore the klibc/linux symlink
2987 o add klibc linux symlink info to the README
2988 o get 'make release' to work properly again
2989 o added README info for how to build using klibc
2990 o turn off debugging if we are building with klibc
2991 o turn off debugging in namedev
2992 o added vsyslog support to klibc
2993 o add ftruncate to klibc
2994 o klibc specific tweaks
2995 o libsysfs does not need mntent.h in it's header file
2996 o udev build tweaks to tdb's spinlock code
2997 o klibc makefile changes
2998 o build tdb and libsysfs from the same makefile as udev
2999 o udev-add build cleanups for other libc versions
3000 o tweak tdb to build within udev better
3001 o make libsysfs spit debug messages to the same place as the rest of udev
3002 o make libsysfs build cleanly
3003 o updated bk ignore list
3004 o added klibc version 0.82 (cvs tree) to the udev tree
3005 o makefile fix for now
3006 o Merge greg@bucket:/home/greg/src/udev into kroah.com:/home/greg/src/udev
3007 o hm, makefile bug with so many files... will fix later
3008 o regression tests starting to be added
3009 o fix LABEL bug for device files (not class files.)
3010 o more warning flags to the build
3011 o got rid of struct device_attr
3012 o rename namedev.permissions and namedev.config to udev.permissions and udev.config
3013 o fix dbg line in namedev.c
3014 o more overrides of config info with env variables if in test mode
3015 o Fix bug causing udev to sleep forever waiting for dev file to show up
3016 o change version to 004_bk
3017 o make config files, sysfs root, and udev root configurable from config variables
3020 o udev: sleep_for_dev() bits
3021 o udev: another canidate for static
3024 Summary of changes from v003 to v004
3025 ============================================
3027 Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
3028 o new version of libsysfs patch
3032 o major database cleanups
3033 o Changed test.block and test.tty to take ACTION from the command line
3034 o don't sleep if 'dev' file is already present on device add
3035 o fix comment about how the "dev" file is made up
3036 o more database work. Now we only store the info we really need right now
3037 o add BUS= bug to TODO list so it will not get forgotten
3039 o test.block changes
3040 o ok, rpm likes the "_" character instead of "-" better
3041 o change the version to 003-bk to keep things sane with people using the bk tree
3042 o got "remove of named devices" working
3043 o fix segfaults when dealing with partitions
3050 o udev: mode should be mode_t
3051 o udev: trivial trivialities
3052 o udev: cool test scripts again
3053 o udev spec file symlink support
3054 o udev: cool test scripts
3055 o udev spec file bits
3058 Summary of changes from v0.2 to v003
3059 ============================================
3061 Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
3066 o update the spec file for the new version and install process
3067 o fix makefile release rule to not drop tdb.h file
3069 o removed AUTHORS and INSTALL files as they were pretty pointless
3071 o Add AUTHORS and INSTALL files
3074 o updated the TODO list
3075 o add udev man page (basically just a place holder for now.)
3076 o added uninstall support
3077 o added install target for makefile so people don't have to do it by hand anymore
3078 o add version to debug log on startup
3079 o tell the user what mknod() we are trying to do
3080 o add dbg_parse() to cut down on parse file debugging statements
3081 o put config files and database in /etc/udev by default
3082 o add ols 2003 udev paper to docs/
3083 o clean up some debugging stuff in namedev.c
3084 o do not build the tdb binary programs, only the objects
3085 o merge tdb into the build process
3086 o Added tdb code from latest cvs version in the samba tree
3087 o added my name to the .spec file
3089 o cleanup the mknod code a bit
3090 o remove mknod callout
3091 o handle new major:minor format of dev files that showed up in 2.6.0-test2-bk3 or so
3092 o oops, everything was getting created as 000 mode, try to fix this up, but fail...
3099 o add callout config type to udev
3102 o Fix TDB cross compilation
3104 o udev/libsysfs cross compile fixes
3107 Summary of changes from v0.1 to v0.2
3108 ============================================
3112 o removed unneeded stuff from udev.h
3113 o added 0.2 change log info
3114 o start working on label support, and fix some segfaults for block devices
3115 o test config file changes
3116 o add NUMBER support (basically same logic as TOPOLOGY, perhaps we should
3118 o added topology support
3119 o got REPLACE to work properly
3120 o make struct config_device contain a struct device_attr instead of
3121 duplicating the mess
3123 o split the tests up into different files
3124 o split udev main logic into udev-add and udev-remove
3125 o Clean up the namedev interface a bit, making the code smaller
3126 o bk: update ignore list
3127 o update the tests to handle block devices too
3128 o add initial libsysfs support
3129 o added libsysfs to the build
3130 o added libsysfs code from sysutils-0.1.1-071803 release
3131 o namedev config files are fully parsed
3132 o more permission tests
3133 o make log_message spit out warnings so I don't have to spend forever
3134 chasing down stupid bugs that aren't there...
3135 o added klibc makefile
3136 o Initial namedev parsing of config files
3137 o sleep for 2 seconds to give the kernel a chance to actually create the
3139 o pick a better default UDEV_ROOT
3140 o fix up the test to actually work
3141 o added more documentation in README and TODO files
3144 Summary of changes up to v0.1
3145 ============================================
3148 o added more documentation in README and TODO files
3149 o updated the documentation
3150 o cleaned up the makefile a bit
3152 o restructure code to be able to actually get remove_node() to work
3153 o Creating nodes actually works
3154 o added stupid test script for debugging
3155 o added initial documentation and gpl license
3157 o updated ignore list
3158 o added initial files
3160 o Initial repository create
3161 o BitKeeper file /home/greg/src/udev/udev/ChangeSet