X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=86a7fa8bdefbf306309f7f6907e9bf4fcae0d26b;hb=8d1425d54717b9b9ec06efdd1dd25559445e2571;hp=69166cfef1e16c1ae361e07569a59356aabce27c;hpb=fc55cf68ca0c0db5172a9de7e827c6c3f7c2a308;p=elogind.git diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 69166cfef..86a7fa8bd 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -7,9 +7,26 @@ the timing of the "bus" link creation, the former integrated logic should be emulated by a rule placed before all other rules: ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus" -The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will always -be in /$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this +The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will be in +/$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this to anything else. +If the init script or something else used this value, just depend on +this hardcoded path. But remember _all_content_ of this directory is +still private to udev and can change at any time. + +Default location for rule sripts and helper programs is now: /lib/udev/. +Everything that is not useful on the commandline should go into this +directory. Some of the helpers in the extras folder are installed there +now. The rules need to be changed, to find the helpers there. + +Also /lib/udev/devices is recommended as a directory where packages or +the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over to /dev at +every boot. This should replace the various solutions with custom config +files. + +Udevsend does no longer start the udev daemon. This must be done with +the init script that prepares /dev on tmpfs and creates the initial nodes, +before starting the daemon. udev 075 ========