This is a short list of things that needs to be done. They are in no specific
-order. I will gladly accept patches for any of these items, or any other stuff
-people offer up.
+order. We will gladly accept patches for any of these items:
- Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+- More documentation:
+ Allmost all extras/*_id/ programs don't have a man page
+ some details are missing in the udev man pages.
+- Completely replace the built-in wait_for_sysfs stuff in udev_sysfs.c
+ by rules using the WAIT_FOR_SYSFS key.
+
+- Log the relationship of the kernel name and the persistent disk name
+ to syslog, so any error logged from the kernel can be associated with
+ any of the links.
+
+- Do generic early boot logic:
+ initramfs, pivot-root, cover coldplug or event replay, etc...
+
+- Keep the distro rules in etc/ up-to-date.
-- more documentation (can never have too much.)
-- document the config file format (it will change over time...)
-- add proper man page
-- add klibc to the build process (or make it easier to do) to get
- smaller binary
-- import latest libsysfs and convert udev to use it.
-- On remove, look up the device in the database (now that we have one) and
- delete what was created, not what the kernel is calling the device.
-- add symlink generation and removal support
-- better partition support (it's a hack right now, maybe new libsysfs changes
- can help out a lot here.)
-- allow database to be queried by other programs
-- split program into two pieces (daemon and helper that sends events to it).
- This will allow us to keep track of sequences, and lots of other needed
- stuff.
-- keep track of current permissions on devices when daemon shuts down.
-- better permission handling
-- create kernel name to devfs name config file so that all of the devfs users
- will have an upgrade path.
-- make program work like design says it should (three parts, not 1)
-- add hooks to call D-BUS when new node is created or removed
-- lots of other stuff...