X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=0e486f4621e4b255f48d4878c9f83f7652657736;hb=0d5076dd92a35c3c7cf48e4998d08feac27827ff;hp=70cd0debbbe429fda2a4aec3c962d5b56c7ce7b9;hpb=2b725651e5b77e88a314d34b8cf8e375514b400f;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 70cd0debb..0e486f462 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,50 @@ +udev 131 +======== +Bugfixes. (And probably new bugs. :)) + +The rule matching engine got converted from a rule list to a token +array which reduced the in-memory rules representation of a full +featured distros with thousends of rules from 1.2MB to 0.17 MB. + +The limit of 5 ENV and ATTR matches, and a single instance for most +other keys per rule is gone with the new parser. + +The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign +a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual +for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final +assignment with NAME:="". + +Many thanks to Alan Jenkins for finding and optimizing some of the +computing expensive parts. + +udev 130 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Kernel devices and device nodes are connected now by reverse indizes in +/sys and /dev. A device number retrieved by a stat() or similar, the +kernel device directory can be found by looking up: + /sys/dev/{block,char}/: +and the device node of the same device by looking up: + /dev/{block,char}/: + +udev 129 +======== +Fix recently introduced bug, which caused a compilation without large +file support, where vol_id does not recognize raid signatures at the end +of a volume. + +Firewire disks now create both, by-id/scsi-* and by-id/ieee-* links. +Seems some kernel versions prevent the creation of the ieee-* links, +so people used the scsi-* link which disappeared now. + +More libudev work. Almost all udevadm functionality comes from libudev +now. + +udevadm trigger has a new option --type, which allows to trigger events +for "devices", for "subsystems", or "failed" devices. The old option +--retry-failed" still works, but is no longer mentioned in the man page. + udev 128 ======== Bugfixes. @@ -6,6 +53,9 @@ The udevadm info --device-id-of-file= output has changed to use the obvious format. Possible current users should use the --export option which is not affected. +The old udev commands symlinks to udevadm are not installed, if +these symlinks are used, a warning is printed. + udev 127 ======== Bugfixes.