X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=97db7761e593c14a6b88a0f93575ea52fc16ab25;hb=c2d5139bfc67e0604e91e49081568fe9e13bd365;hp=0c9e45b9ab8bc4fd986c37a964d221bd69fba466;hpb=c1b7f60deac0bc0e87a139648d57085512fd9e62;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0c9e45b9a..97db7761e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,38 @@ +udev 155 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Now the udev daemon itself, does on startup: + - copy the content of /lib/udev/devices to /dev + - create the standard symlinks like /dev/std{in,out,err}, + /dev/core, /dev/fd, ... + - use static node information provided by kernel modules + and creates these nodes to allow module on-demand loading + - possibly apply permissions to all ststic nodes from udev + rules which are annotated to match a static node + +The default mode for a device node is 0600 now to match the kernel +created devtmpfs defaults. If GROUP= is specified and no MODE= is +given the default will be 0660. + +udev 154 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udev now gradually starts to pass control over the primary device nodes +and their names to the kernel, and will in the end only manage the +permissions of the node, and possibly create additional symlinks. +As a first step NAME="" will be ignored, and NAME= setings with names +other than the kernel provided name will result in a logged warning. +Kernels that don't provide device names, or devtmpfs is not used, will +still work as they did before, but it is strongly recommended to use +only the same names for the primary device node as the recent kernel +provides for all devices. + +udev 153 +======== +Fix broken firmware loader search path. + udev 152 ======== Bugfixes. @@ -9,7 +44,7 @@ events are expected as "add" events. The option "all_partitons" was removed from udev. This should not be needed for usual hardware. Udev can not safely make assumptions -about non-exixting partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no +about non-existing partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no longer provide this unreliable and unsafe option. The option "ignore_remove" was removed from udev. With devtmpfs