X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=dcbf3a66b25bfcfda17e86acc58260e7c0c4864e;hb=1da6c797fdbb94372c1a809acf1a0ca159b2d7b1;hp=89890a8d06dab3e4968631b343b342aa913abf41;hpb=6133f3432fe86bc140cc9ba74794826f75c915fa;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 89890a8d0..dcbf3a66b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,57 @@ +udev 147 +======== +Bugfixes. + +To support DEVPATH strings larger than the maximum file name length, the +private udev database format has changed. If some software still reads the +private files in /dev/.udev/, which it shouldn't, now it's time to fix it. +Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev +is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without +prior notice. + +NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous. +It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed +from all rules. + +Symlinks to udevadm with the old command names are no longer resolved to +the udevadm commands. + +udev 146 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udevadm trigger "--retry-failed" option, which is replaced since quite +a while by "--type=failed" is removed. + +The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN +option "ignore_error" is replaced by a "fail_event_on_error" option, and the +default is not to track any failing RUN executions. + +New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated. + +udev 145 +======== +Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are +changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules. + +udev 144 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the +name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be +exported with the event. + +Firmware files are looked up in: + /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware/updates + /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware" +now. + +ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata. +ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices. + udev 143 ======== Bugfixes. @@ -28,7 +82,7 @@ build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy is available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ -Many extras of the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main +The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras.