X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f41868755522228796a25c0d4acb3c20d2d0611e;hb=e2151b00e92dde5b9e2b06052b358c8101f29165;hp=52bfa6a9910cd127b407b0ebac629e8f6dd9d974;hpb=2c7b88c4a55426087955a12aad33c1935e639876;p=elogind.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 52bfa6a99..f41868755 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,49 @@ +udev 142 +======== +Bugfixes. + +A too old kernel or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not +supported since while and udevd will log an error message at +startup. + +DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. To support older +kernels, the old shell script should be added to a possible compat +rules file. + +udev 141 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The processed udev events get send back to the netlink socket. Libudev +provides access to these events. This is work-in-progress, to replace +the DeviceKit daemon functionality directly with libudev. There are +upcoming kernel changes to allow non-root users to subcribe to these +events. + +udev 140 +======== +Bugfixes. + +"udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for, +instead of waiting for "all" events. + +udev 139 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed +during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev +rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished +event handling the watch is restored. + +udev 138 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch". +If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur. +/dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated. + udev 137 ======== Bugfixes. @@ -6,7 +52,8 @@ The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks are always updated with a test run now. The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user -and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems). +and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems) or --resolve-names=late to +lookup user and groups every time events are handled. udev 136 ========