X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d4e8477cfba21f5092a9c3be0cc9f325bb9a90dd;hb=75cb1ac51ea0176926c749bd0f22c19ce8b20e5f;hp=c422eaa8e349b6ff8ad7279c89f869bdedaf7956;hpb=1f084fe5811ce251d516a8022f8c7c27d0ef1f53;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c422eaa8e..d4e8477cf 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,20 +1,46 @@ +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. -"udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now, instead of "add" -events. +"udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now instead of "add" +events. The "udev boot script" might need to add "--action=add" to +the trigger command if not already there, in case the initial coldplug +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 -longer provide such an unreliable and unsafe option. +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 +udev passed control over device nodes to the kernel. This option +should not be needed, or can not work as advertised. Neither +udev nor the kernel will remove device nodes which are copied from +the /lib/udev/devices/ directory. All "add|change" matches are replaced by "!remove" in the rules and in the udev logic. All types of events will update possible symlinks and permissions, only "remove" is handled special now. -The modem mode switch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch +The modem modeswitch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch program should be used instead. New and fixed keymaps.