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Summary of changes from v060 to v061
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  Sync up the Debian rules files
  fix cdrom symlink problem in gentoo rules
  Fix ChangeLog titles

Kay Sievers:
  update RELEASE-NOTES
  we want to provide OPTFLAGS
  rename ALARM_TIMEOUT to UDEV_ALARM_TIMEOUT
  udevd: optimize env-key parsing
  don't resolve OWNER, GROUP on precompile if string contains %, $
  set default device node to /dev
  create udevdb files only if somehting interesting happened
  pack parsed rules list
  replace useless defines by inline text
  move rule matches to function
  add usb_id program to generate usb-storage device identifiers
  add IEEE1394 rules to the gentoo rule file
  fake also kernel-name if we renamed a netif
  allow OPTIONS to be recognized for /sys/modules /sys/devices events
  switch gentoo rules to new operators


Summary of changes from v059 to v060
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  Fix the gentoo udev rules to allow the box to boot properly

Gustavo Zacarias:
  Udev doesn't properly build with $CROSS

Kay Sievers:
  Keep udevstart from skipping devices without a 'dev' file

Marco d'Itri:
  #define NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT


Summary of changes from v058 to v059
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  Update the gentoo rule file
  Fix udevinfo for empty sysfs directories
  Fix makefile to allow 'make release' to work with git

Hannes Reinecke:
  udev: fix netdev RUN handling
  udevcontrol: fix exit code

Kay Sievers:
  prepare RELEASE-NOTES
  add ID_TYPE to the id probers
  add -x to scsi_id to export the queried values in env format
  store the imported device information in the udevdb
  rename udev_volume_id to vol_id and add --export option
  add ata_id to read serial numbers from ATA drives
  IMPORT allow to import program returned keys into the env
  unify execute_command() and execute_program()
  IMPORT=<file> allow to import a shell-var style config-file
  allow rules to be compiled to one binary file
  fix the fix and change the file to wait for to the "bus" link
  fix udevstart and let all events trvel trough udev
  prepare for module loading rules and add MODALIAS key
  remove device node, when type block/char has changed
  Makefile: remove dev.d/ hotplug.d/ from install target
  udevcontrol: add max_childs command
  udevd: control log-priority of the running daemon with udevcontrol
  udeveventrecorder: add small program that writes an event to disk
  klibc: add missing files
  udevinitsend: handle replay messages correctly
  udev man page: add operators
  udevd: allow starting of udevd with stopped exec-queue
  klibc: version 1.0.14
  udev: handle all events - not only class and block devices
  volume_id: use udev-provided log-level
  udev: clear lists if a new value is assigned
  udev: move dev.d/ handling to external helper
  udev: allow final assignments :=
  udevd: improve timeout handling
  Makefile: fix DESTDIR
  udevd: add initsend
  udevd: add udevcontrol
  udevd: listen for netlink events

Stefan Schweizer:
  Dialout group fix for capi devices in the gentoo rules file

Summary of changes from v057 to v058
============================================

Daniel Drake:
  o Writing udev rules docs update

Darren Salt:
  o update cdsymlinks to latest version

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o remove detach_state files from the sysfs test tree
  o Update permissions on test scripts so they will run properly now
  o hopefully fix up the symlinks in the test directory
  o Removed klibc/klibc.spec as it is autogenerated
  o Added symlinks thanks to Kay's script and git hacking
  o add Red Hat/Fedora html documenation
  o Update Red Hat default udev rules

Kay Sievers:
  o selinux: fix handling during creation of symlinks
  o Fedora udev.rules update
  o libsysfs: version 2.0
  o klibc: version 1.0.7

Masanao Igarashi:
  o Fix libsysfs issue with relying on the detach_state file to be

Summary of changes from v056 to v057
============================================

<tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
  o fix stupid all_partitions bug

Kay Sievers:
  o add test for make -j4 to build-check
  o klibc: version 1.0.6
  o update Debian rules
  o apply default permissions only for devices that will need it
  o adapt RELEASE-NOTES
  o udev_volume_id: fix endianess macros
  o udev-test.pl: add test for DEVNAME export to RUN environment
  o update the man page to reflect the recent changes
  o export DEVNAME to RUN-key executed programs
  o fix make -j4 and the local klibc-install
  o update RELEASE-NOTES
  o add RUN key to be able to run rule based notification
  o fix udevtest to print the error if logging is disabled
  o move execute_program to utils + add action to init_device
  o correct correction for error path for PROGRAM execution
  o correct error path for PROGRAM execution
  o klibc: version 1.0.5
  o check for strlen()==0 before accessing strlen()-1
  o allow to match against empty key values
  o read %s{}-sysfs values at any device in the chain
  o udev_rules.c: don't change sysfs_device while walking up the device chain
  o klibc: strlcpy/strlcat - don't alter destination if size == 0
  o fix klibc's broken strlcpy/strlcat
  o udevinfo: print SYSFS attribute the same way we match it
  o remove untrusted chars read from sysfs-values or returned by PROGRAM
  o udevinfo: print errors to stderr instead of stdout
  o klibc: version 1.0.4
  o support log-priority levels in udev.conf
  o test-suite: remove UDEV_TEST, it's not needed anymore
  o libsysfs: remove trailing slash on SYSFS_PATH override


Summary of changes from v055 to v056
============================================

<tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
  o fix header paths in udev_libc_wrapper.c

Kay Sievers:
  o udev-test.pl: use more common user/group names
  o klibc: remove SCCS directories from the temporary klibc install
  o udev-test.pl: add a test where the group cannot be found in /etc/passwd
  o udev-test.pl: add check for textual uid/gid
  o fix bad typo that prevents the GROUP to be applied
  o udevd: don't delay events with TIMEOUT in the environment
  o klibc: use klcc wrapper instead of our own Makefile
  o change call_foreach_file to return a list


Summary of changes from v054 to v055
============================================

<jkluebs:luebsphoto.com>:
  o This patch causes the remove handler to check that each symlink actually points to the correct devnode and skip it if it does not.

<pebenito:gentoo.org>:
  o udev selinux fix

<tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
  o The following patch fixes some warnings when compiling volume_id from udev with the -Wall compiler flag. Define _GNU_SOURCE for strnlen() and correct the path to logging.h
  o The following patch fixes a warning when compiling chassis_id from udev with the -Wall compiler flag. There are too much conversions in the format string of sscanf(). One %d can be dropped.

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix raid rules
  o added frugalware udev ruleset
  o merge selinux and Kay's symlink fixes together

Hannes Reinecke:
  o volume_id: Fix label/uuid reading for reiserfs

Kay Sievers:
  o add udevstart to the RELEASE-NOTES
  o volume_id: version 43
  o clarify the shortcomings of %e
  o correct rule match for devices without a physical device
  o remove unneeded code, libsysfs does this for us
  o add final release note
  o add ENV{} key to match agains environment variables
  o simplify sysfs_pair handling
  o add a test and simplify debug statement
  o support =, ==, !=, += for the key match and assignment
  o add OPTION="last_rule" to skip any later rule
  o rename namedev_dev to udev_rule
  o correct enum device_type
  o remove udevstart on make clean
  o volume_id: version 42
  o volume_id: version 41
  o remove unneeded include
  o The path to dlist.h is not correct
  o udevinfo -d: use '=' as separator, cause ':' may be a part of the devpath
  o klibc: version 1.0.3
  o add RELEASE-NOTES file
  o test suite: move "driver" link to physical device
  o remove PLACE key match
  o don't lookup "root" in the userdb
  o fix ia64 compile
  o fix segfaulting udev while DRIVER matching
  o cleanup list.h
  o klibc: version 0.214
  o rename device_list->list to device_list->node
  o replace strncpy()/strncat() by strlcpy()/strlcat()
  o split udev and udevstart
  o udev_volume_id: version 39
  o rename LOG to USE_LOG in all places
  o remove Makefile magic for klibc integration
  o klibc_fixups: remove no longer needed stuff
  o udev_volume_id: volume_id v38
  o use numeric owner/group as default values to avoid parsing userdb
  o fix up segfaulting binaries with new klibc
  o udevinfo -d: speed-up device dump
  o klibc: version 0.211
  o klibc_fixups: remove unneeded stuff
  o replace weird defines by real code
  o udev-test.pl: remove useless tests
  o allow unlimitied count of symlinks
  o unmap db-file after use
  o remove typedef for call_foreach_file() handler function
  o correct udev_init_device
  o rename attributes to options
  o kill stupid gcc4 warning
  o trivial clenaup of namedev code
  o klibc: check for gcc4
  o klibc: update v0.205

Thierry Vignaud:
  o gentoo rule update for raid devices


Summary of changes from v053 to v054
============================================

<tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
  o udev_volume_id: add Reiser4 support

Kay Sievers:
  o namedev: skip backslashes only if followed by newline
  o wait_for_sysfs: add joydev
  o udevinfo: print devpath -> node relationship for all devices
  o trivial rename of some variables
  o klibc v0.199
  o big libsysfs diet (pre 2.0 version)
  o udev_volume_id: volume_id v35
  o add "serio" to bus list
  o determine device type in udev_init_device()
  o move kernel name/number evaluation into udev_init_device()
  o detect NAME="" as ignore_device rule
  o trivial namedev cleanup
  o cleanup db functions
  o clean up match_place()
  o switch device type to enum
  o switch major/minor to dev_t
  o remove the device node only if the major/minor number matches
  o libsysfs: work around a klibc bug
  o introduce OPTIONS=ignore_device, ignore_remove, all_partitions" key
  o namedev: execute PROGRAM only once and not possibly for every physical device

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update scsi_id to work with libsysfs changes


Summary of changes from v052 to v053
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix gentoo fb permission issue
  o allow simple-build-check.sh to go faster if MAKEOPTS is set
  o make the release tarballs have writable files in them
  o remove gentoo permission file as it's not valid anymore

Kay Sievers:
  o fix special file mode mask for temporary device node
  o udevstart: simplify "dev" file searching
  o udev_volume_id: remove temporary node creation and parent handling
  o add %P modifier to query the node name of the parent device
  o udev_volume_id: remove __packed__ from dasd structure as it does not work
  o create /block/*/range count of partitons for all_partitions

Patrick Mansfield:
  o scsi_id changes for use with udev %N and %p


Summary of changes from v051 to v052
============================================

<md:linux.it>:
  o debian: update rules files
  o raid-devfs.sh: devfs names for hardware RAID controllers
  o scsi_id: when udevstart is started, /tmp is not writeable
  o cdsymlinks.sh: trivial fix, the variable is initialized to '', not 0

<sschweizer:gmail.com>:
  o gentoo/udev.rules: add default permissions for sound devices

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix example comment in ide-devfs.sh
  o Add infiniband to gentoo rules
  o Another gentoo fix, adding dvb support
  o Fix gentoo bug #76056 (fb device group permissions.)
  o Fix gentoo bug #81102, device nodes for the pktcdvd device

Kay Sievers:
  o provide temporary device node for callouts to access the device
  o udev_volume_id: fix dasd disklabel reading with -l option
  o udev_volume_id: volume_id version 034
  o udev_volume_id: rename probe_ibm into probe_dasd
  o udev_volume_id: volume_id version 032
  o Makefile: add some more warnings and prepare for clean gcc4 compile
  o Makefile: cleanup conditional config option sections
  o fix -Wsign-compare warnings
  o chassis_id: clean compilation and fix bad function parameter passing
  o simple_build_check: make it possible to pass KERNEL_DIR
  o selinux: cleanup udev integration

Michael Buesch:
  o trivial: remove _all_ trailing slashes with no_trailing_slash()
  o trivial: fix signedness
  o namdev: allow symlink-only rules to specify node permissions
  o udevd: fix valgrind warning


Summary of changes from v050 to v051
============================================

<roland:digitalvampire.org>:
  o This fixes a silly mistake in how udevinfo prints the major and minor numbers (right now it prints the minor next to "MAJOR" and the major next to "MINOR" ;)

<tklauser:access.unizh.chbk>:
  o I tried to compile udev 050plus with the GCC 4.0 snapshot 200412119 and got two errors about possibly uninitialized structs, so I fixed this. 

Christian Bornträger:
  o udev_volume_id: fix -d option

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o gentoo fb permission fix
  o fix gcc 2.96 issue in libsysfs
  o remove the lfs startup script on request of the author
  o clean up the aoe char device rules, and delete the block one as it's not needed
  o add aoe block and char device rules to the gentoo rule file
  o fix udev_volume_id build error

Hannes Reinecke:
  o rearrange link order in Makefile

Kay Sievers:
  o udev_volume_id: new version of volume_id
  o klibc: update to version 0.198
  o udev_volume_id: fix FAT label reading
  o klibc: update to version 0.196
  o udevd: throttle the forking of processes
  o udevd: add possible initialization of expected_seqnum
  o udevd: it's obviously not the brightest idea to exit a device node manager if it doesn't find /dev/null
  o udevd: separate socket handling to prepare for other event sources
  o udevd: support -d switch to become a daemon
  o udev_volume_id: version 27
  o udevd: split up message receiving an queueing
  o remove useless warning if udev.conf contains keys not read by udev itself
  o improve event sequence serialization
  o remove udevsend syslog noise on udevd startup
  o limit the initial timeout of the udevd event handling
  o correct detection of hotplug.d/ udevsend loop
  o correct log statement
  o remove default_* permissions from udev.conf file
  o update Fedora config files and add some more tests
  o allow permissions only rules
  o add SUBSYSTEM rule to catch all block devices and apply the disk permissions
  o update Fedora config files
  o handle renamed network interfaces properly if we manage hotplug.d/
  o allow multiline rules by backslash at the end of the line
  o add OnStream tape drive rules
  o simplify rules file by setting default mode to 0660
  o simplify permission application
  o I broke the extras/ again. Add simple build test script now
  o Merge vrfy.org:/home/kay/src/udev into vrfy.org:/home/kay/src/udev.kay
  o initial merge of fedora udev.permissions into udev.rules
  o remove permissions file mentioning from the udev man page
  o fix some typos in gentoo's udev.rules introduced by the merge

Michael Buesch:
  o The attached patch fixes the code path if namedev_name_device() fails

Summary of changes from v049 to v050
============================================

<harald:redhat.com>:
  o selinux patch

<tklauser:access.unizh.ch>:
  o I made some more changes to the manpage of udev including

Kay Sievers:
  o update libsysfs to CVS version and fix segfaulting attribute reading
  o klibc supports LOG_PID now, so remove our own implementation
  o avoid building klibc test programs and pass SUBDIRS= to klibc clean


Summary of changes from v048 to v049
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix 'make clean' error in klibc

Kay Sievers:
  o update klibc to 0.194
  o export DEVNAME regardless of the state of udev_dev_d
  o add class specific files for class/spi_transport and class/spi_host
  o udevd-test.pl: remove wrong date calculation
  o check earlier if we should run as udevstart
  o remove double initialization
  o include missing header to udevtest.c
  o add -V option to udev to print the version number
  o prevent udev node creatinon for "class" registration
  o udevd: serialization of the event sequence of a chain of devices
  o add a class/fc_host file to the list of what to wait for
  o udev_volume_id: links sysfs.a instead of all objects

Martin Schlemmer:
  o remove leftover from udevinfo's -d option


Summary of changes from v047 to v048
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix udev_volume_id so it will now build properly
  o fix scsi_id build errors due to changes in the main udev makefile


Summary of changes from v046 to v047
============================================

<klauser:access.unizh.ch>:
  o Various typos and other litte errors in udev.8.in

<sjoerd:spring.luon.net>:
  o DEVNAME on device removal

<sschweizer:gmail.com>:
  o Allow GROUP to have modifiers in it

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add more debian rules files
  o move distro specific config files into their own directories
  o update debian rules files
  o added asterix rules to the gentoo file
  o use udevstart for udev.init.* files
  o delete a bunch of files no longer needed
  o fix gentoo scsi cdrom rule
  o Fix the multithreaded build again
  o merge
  o comment out ability to run udev-test.pl with valgrind
  o fix spurious valgrind warning in udev
  o fix udevinfo '-q path' option as it was not working
  o merge
  o fix parallel build error

Kay Sievers:
  o update Fedora dev.d/ example and remove unused conf.d/ directory
  o don't install distribution specific init script on "make install"
  o restore OWNER/GROUP assignment in rule coming from RESULT
  o make gcov compile scripts working with recent gcc
  o fix udev-test/udev-test.pl to work with again
  o add net/atml and class/ppdev to the wait_for_sysfs exception list
  o add net/nlv* devices to the exception list
  o add "pcmcia" and "fc_transport" to the wait_for_sysfs lists
  o remove unused timestamp field
  o simplify permission handling
  o handle /etc/hotplug.d/ only if the event comes from udevd
  o trivial cleanups and change some comments
  o remove unused variables
  o udevsend/udevd handle events without a subsystem
  o use blacklist on device "remove" and remove dev.d/ call code duplication
  o update the man pages and correct Usage: hints
  o don't call the hotplug scripts with a test run
  o don't call dev.d/ scripts twice, if directory = subsystem
  o remove archive file if we changed something
  o link archive insted of objects
  o rename udev_lib to udev_utils and dev_d to udev_multiplex
  o handle whole hotplug event with udevd/udev
  o integrate wait_for_sysfs in udev
  o make the searched multiplex directories conditionally
  o add MANAGED_EVENT to the forked udev environment
  o export DEVNAME on remove event
  o export udev_log flag to the environment
  o remove my test code
  o add support for /devices-devices without any file to wait for
  o Patch from Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
  o add a bunch of busses to the list of what to wait for
  o close connection to syslog in forked udevd child
  o udevd exit path cleanup
  o fix network device naming bug


Summary of changes from v045 to v046
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o make spotless for releases

Kay Sievers:
  o Don't try to print major/minor for devices without a dev file
  o remove get_device_type and merge that into udev_set_values()
  o prevent udevd crash if DEVPATH is not set
  o add ippp and bcrypt to the exception lists of wait_for_sysfs
  o let klibc add the trailing newline to syslog conditionally
  o disable logging for udevstart
  o add NAME{ignore_remove} attribute
  o remove historical SYSFS_attr="value" format
  o don't wait for sysfs if the kernel(2.6.10-rc2) tells us what not to expect
  o change key names in udevinfo sysfs walk to match the kernel
  o support DRIVER as a rule key
  o support SUBSYSTEM as a rule key
  o rename udevdb* to udev_db*
  o Make dev.d/ handling a separate processing stage
  o make the udev object available to more processing stages
  o remove udev_lib dependency from udevsend, which makes it smaller
  o add ACTION to udev object to expose it to the whole process
  o make udevinfo's -r option also workimg for symlink queries
  o let udev act as udevstart if argv[1] == "udevstart"
  o improve udevinfo sysfs info walk
  o add sysfs info walk to udevinfo
  o pass the whole event environment to udevd
  o replace tdb database by simple lockless file database


Summary of changes from v044 to v045
============================================

Martin Schlemmer:
  o Some updates for Gentoo's udev rules


Summary of changes from v043 to v044
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add cdsymlinks.sh support to gentoo rules file
  o fix gentoo legacy tty rule
  o remove 'sudo' usage from the Makefile
  o make udev-test.pl test for root permissions before running

Kay Sievers:
  o reduce syslog noise of udevsend if multiple instances try to start udevd
  o add i2c-dev to the list of devices without a bus


Summary of changes from v042 to v043
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add test target to makefile
  o add dumb script to show all sysfs devices in the system

Kay Sievers:
  o Shut up wait_for_sysfs class/net failure messages, as it's not possible to
    get that right for all net devices. Kernels later than 2.6.10-rc1 will
    handle that by carrying the neccessary information in the hotplug event.  
  o wait() for specific pid to return from fork()
  o Don't use any syslog() in signal handler, cause it may deadlock
  o Add support for highpoint ataraid to volume_id to suppress label reading on raid set members.
  o Add a bunch of devices without "device" symlinks
  o Exit, if udevtest cannot open the device (segfault)
  o Patches from Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
  o Apply the default permissions even if we found a entry in the permissions
    file. Correct one test, as the default is applied correctly now and the
    mode will no longer be 0000.
  o add test for format chars in multiple symlinks to replace
  o Add net/vmnet and class/zaptel to the list of devices without physical device


Summary of changes from v040 to v042
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add inotify to the rules for gentoo

Kay Sievers:
  o skip waiting for device if we get a bad event for class creation and not for a device underneath it
  o add net/pan and net/bnep handling
  o switch wait for bus_file to stat() instead of open() add net/tun device handling add ieee1394 device handling
  o Remove the last klibc specific line from the main udev code Move _KLIBC_HAS_ARCH_SIG_ATOMIC_T to the fixup file which is automatically included by the Makefile is we build with klibc
  o ignore *.rej files from failed patches
  o update to libsysfs 1.2.0 and add some stuff klib_fixup Now we have only the sysfs.h file different from the upstream version to map our dbg() macro.
  o improve klibc fixup integration
  o cleanup udevd/udevstart
  o expose sysfs functions for sharing it


Summary of changes from v039 to v040
============================================

<jk:blackdown.de>:
  o wait_for_sysfs update for dm devices

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o sparse cleanups on the tree
  o fix stupid cut-and-paste error for msr devices on gentoo boxes
  o add *~ to bk ignore list
  o delete udevruler.c as per Kay's request
  o fix up the wait_for_sysfs_test script a bit

Kay Sievers:
  o fix debug in volume id / fix clashing global var name
  o volume_id fix
  o $local user
  o cleanup netif handling and netif-dev.d/ events
  o big cleanup of internal udev api
  o don't wait for dummy devices
  o close the syslog
  o Fix ppp net devices in wait_for_sysfs
  o Fix wait_for_sysfs messages (more debugging info)


Summary of changes from v038 to v039
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o Hopefully fix the vcs issue in wait_for_sysfs
  o take out & from wait_for_sysfs_test that I previously missed
  o add very nice cdsymlinks scripts
  o add some helper scripts for dvb and input devices
  o add debian config files
  o let the extras/ programs build "pretty" also
  o tweak the ccdv program to handle files in subdirectories being built
  o crap, I messed up the 'sed' instances pretty badly, this fixes the config and man page mess
  o fix broken 'make -j5' functionality

Kay Sievers:
  o swich attribute open() to simple stat()
  o wait_for_sysfs update for /class/firmware and /class/net/irda devices
  o fix unusual sysfs behavior for pcmcia_socket
  o remove sleeps from udev as it is external now
  o delete udevruler?
  o Makefile fix

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev to scsi_id 0.7
  o pass SYSFS setting down for extras builds
  o move assignments past local variables


Summary of changes from v037 to v038
============================================

<andrew.patterson:hp.com>:
  o Re: Problem parsing %s in udev rules

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix up error in building extras and libsysfs

Summary of changes from v036 to v037
============================================

<md:linux.it>:
  o small udev patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix compilation warning in tdb log message
  o Fix build error with klibc due to recent changes
  o merge
  o add wait_for_sysfs test script to the tarball to help people debug their boxes
  o add ipsec to wait_for_sysfs ignore list
  o added ccdv to bk ignore list
  o a few more Makefile tweaks for the quiet feature
  o Make the build silent, thanks to a helper program from ncftp
  o rename files to have '_' instead of '-' in them
  o change max time to wait in wait_for_sysfs to 10 seconds to hopefully handle some slow machines
  o add support for class/raw/ to wait_for_sysfs
  o fix up Makefile for wait_for_sysfs udev_version.h dependancy
  o remove the debian specific file, as they don't want to share with the rest of the world :(

Kay Sievers:
  o prevent deadlocks on an corrupt udev database
  o wait_for_sysfs_update

Michael Buesch:
  o fix asmlinkage
  o fix incompatible pointer type warning


Summary of changes from v035 to v036
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add the error number to the error message in wait_for_sysfs to help out in debugging problems

Summary of changes from v034 to v035
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o added ieee1394 support to wait_for_sysfs
  o update wait_for_sysfs with a bunch more devices thanks to user reports

Summary of changes from v033 to v034
============================================

Kay Sievers:
  o wait_for_sysfs bluetooth class update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add comment in wait_for_sysfs to explain the structure better
  o Revert previous dev_d.c change, it's not what is causing HAL problems
  o hm, somethings odd with DEVPATH, see if this fixes it
  o 33_bk mark for the makefile
  o wait_for_sysfs: clean up the logic for the list of devices that we do not expect device symlinks for
  o get rid of annoying extra lines in the syslog for some libsysfs debug messages
  o added support for i2c devices in wait_for_sysfs.c
  o add support for i2c-adapter devices to wait_for_sysfs.c

Summary of changes from v032 to v033
============================================

<harald:redhat.com>:
  o udev close on exec
  o some cleanups and security fixes
  o some cleanups and security fixes
  o selinux for udev
  o cleanup PATCH for extras/chassis_id/Makefile

<kpfleming:backtobasicsmgmt.com>:
  o respect prefix= setting in built udev.conf (updated)

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add support for usb interfaces to wait_for_sysfs to keep it quiet
  o enable native tdb spinlocks on i386 platforms
  o delete extras/multipath-tools as per the author's request
  o be paranoid in dev_d.c
  o add USE_SELINUX to README documentation so people have a chance to see what is going on
  o update the selinux.h file to start to look sane
  o update bk ignore list for the wait_for_sysfs binary
  o kdetv wants to see device nodes in /dev
  o update comments in scsi-devfs.sh
  o fix up Makefiles to get the klibc build working properly
  o update bk ignore list for new klibc generated files
  o oops forgot to add the new klibc/include directory
  o update klibc to version 0.181

Kay Sievers:
  o fix problems with dev.d and udevstart
  o wait_for_sysfs debug cleanup
  o fix problems using scsi_id with udevstart
  o update volume_id
  o finally solve the bad sysfs-timing for all of us
  o volume-id build fix and update
  o switch udev's seqnum to u64
  o add enum tests
  o fix udev segfaults with bad permissions file

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev to include scsi_id 0.6


Summary of changes from v031 to v032
============================================

<harald:redhat.com>:
  o udev parse bug

Kay Sievers:
  o handle only block and class devices
  o fix udevstart badly broken in udev 031


Summary of changes from v030 to v031
============================================

<arun:codemovers.org>:
  o udev - read long lines from config files overflow fix

<ballarin.marc:gmx.de>:
  o Update the FAQ with info about hardlink security

<david:fubar.dk>:
  o compatibility symlinks for udev

David Weinehall:
  o Minor POSIX-fixes for udev

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add symlink for video rule
  o add a "first" list to udevstart and make it contain the class/mem/ devices
  o fix compiler warning in udevtest.c
  o Fix old-style pty breakage in rules file for tty device
  o add rules for i386 cpu devices
  o add permission for legotower usb devices

Kay Sievers:
  o Fix naming ethernet devices in udevstart
  o update udev_volume_id
  o let /sbin/hotplug execute udev earlier
  o pass SEQNUM trough udevd
  o fix manpages based on esr's spambot

Martin Schlemmer:
  o add microcode rule to permissions.gentoo file

Michael Buesch:
  o Try to provide a bit of security for hardlinks to /dev entries

Olaf Hering:
  o udevsend depends on udev_lib.o

Tom Rini:
  o fix UDEV_NO_SLEEP
  o clean up start_udev a bit
  o Make udev/udevstart be one binary
  o Add 'asmlinkage' to udev-030


Summary of changes from v029 to v030
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix stupid off-by-one bug that caused udevstart to die on x86-64 boxes


Summary of changes from v028 to v029
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add permission rule for jogdial device
  o fix dumb bug I added to udevstart
  o make a "last list" of devices for udevstart to operate on last
  o fix permission problem with input event and ts nodes for gentoo
  o change default perms of misc/rtc to be readable by anyone

Olaf Hering:
  o allow NAME_SIZE > SYSFS_PATH_MAX


Summary of changes from v027 to v028
============================================

<atul.sabharwal:intel.com>:
  o Patch for chassis_id exras module

Daniel Drake:
  o Writing udev rules doc update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o clean up block whitelist search logic a bit
  o reverse order of scanning of udevstart to look at class before block

Kay Sievers:
  o update udev_volume_id

Leann Ogasawara:
  o udevstart performance increase

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.5


Summary of changes from v026 to v027
============================================

<fork0:users.sf.net>:
  o fix handle leak in udev_lib.c

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o tweak the gentoo default permission rules as they are wrong for tty and misc devices


Summary of changes from v025 to v026
============================================

Arnd Bergmann:
  o udev rpm fix

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add test for ! in partition name
  o 025_bk mark
  o Update to version 117 of klibc (from version 108)
  o add volume_id ignore rule for bk
  o add volume_id support to the udev.spec file
  o remove dbus and selinux stuff from the udev.spec file
  o delete udev_selinux as it doesn't work properly and is the wrong way to do it
  o Deleted the udev_dbus extra as it didn't really work properly and HAL has a real solution now
  o add udev.permissions.slackware file
  o udevstart: close open directories

Kay Sievers:
  o fix udevd zombies
  o catchup with recent klibc
  o Re: udevsend fallback
  o udev_volume_id update
  o udev callout for reading filesystem labels
  o udev callout for reading filesystem labels
  o udev default config layout changes

Leann Ogasawara:
  o evaluate getenv() return value for udev_config.c

Summary of changes from v024 to v025
============================================

<md:linux.it>:
  o devfs.sh-ide-floppy

<sjoerd:spring.luon.net>:
  o DEVNODE -> DEVNAME transition fixes

Daniel Drake:
  o Update writing udev rules docs

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o make dev.d call each directory in the directory chain of the device name, instead of just the whole name
  o add devd_test script
  o add more permissions based on SuSE's recommendations
  o added rules for tun and raw devices
  o add udev conf.d file
  o Switch the default config to point to a directory for the rules and permission files
  o update the Red Hat .dev files to work on other distros
  o add dbus.dev, pam_console.dev and selinux.dev files for /etc/dev.d/default/ usage
  o add hints for red hat users from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
  o add scripts to run gcov for udev from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
  o change permissions on udevd test scripts
  o Fix build process for users who have LC_ALL set to a non-english language
  o Added expanded tests to the test framework from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
  o added execelent "writing udev rules" document from Daniel Drake <dan@reactivated.net>
  o added rule to put USB printers in their proper places
  o added rules for CAPI devices
  o added a dev.d alsa script to help people out

Kay Sievers:
  o fix test regressions
  o udev_selinux changes
  o udevd test script
  o udev_dbus changes
  o fix devpath for netdev

Leann Ogasawara:
  o gcov for udev


Summary of changes from v023 to v024
============================================

<atul.sabharwal:intel.com>:
  o Add README for chassis_id
  o Add chassis_id program to extras directory

<chris_friesen:sympatico.ca>:
  o udevd race conditions and performance,  assorted cleanups

<hare:suse.de>:
  o fix SEGV in libsysfs/dlist.c

<maryedie:osdl.org>:
  o add OSDL documentation for persistent naming

<md:linux.it>:
  o small ide-devfs.sh fix

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o remove compiler warning from udevd.c
  o only generate udev.8 on the fly, not all other man pages
  o update bk ignore list some more
  o update bk ignore list
  o switch to generate the man pages during the normal build, not during the install
  o convert udev.8.in to use @udevdir@ macro for make install
  o first step of making man pages dynamically generated
  o add install and uninstall the etc/dev.d/net/hotplug.dev file to the Makefile
  o tweak net_test a bit
  o fix some segfaults when running udevtest for network devices
  o make a net_test test script using udevtest
  o handle the subsytem if provided in udevtest
  o add hotplug.dev script to handle renamed network devices
  o add a bunch of network class devices to the test sysfs tree
  o add udevruler to the bk ignore list
  o update RFC-dev.d docs due to DEVNODE to DEVNAME change
  o clean up chassis_id coding style
  o clean up the OSDL document formatting a bit
  o add netlink rules to devfs and gentoo rules files
  o added USB device rules to rules files
  o clean up the gentoo rules file a bit more, adding dri rules
  o fix up udev.rules to handle oss rules better
  o 023_bk mark
  o fix udev.spec file for where udevtest should be placed

Kay Sievers:
  o tweak node unlink handling
  o switch udevd's msg_dump() to #define
  o handle netdev in udevruler
  o man page cleanup
  o put config info in db for netdev
  o increase udevd event timeout
  o udevstart fix
  o put netdev handling and dev.d/ in manpages
  o DEVPATH for netdev
  o netdev - udevdb+dev.d changes
  o udevd race conditions and performance,  assorted cleanups - take 2
  o udevinfo patch
  o dev_d.c file sorting and cleanup
  o apply all_partitions rule to main block device only


Summary of changes from v022 to v023
============================================

Kay Sievers:
  o hmm, handle net devices with udev?
  o correct apply_format() for symlink only rules
  o don't init namedev on remove
  o first stupid try for a rule compose gui
  o replace fgets() with mmap() and introduce udev_lib.[hc]
  o make udevtest a real program :)

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o udevinfo patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o create the /etc/dev.d/ directories in 'make install'
  o actually have udev run files ending in .dev in the /etc/dev.d/ directory as documented
  o added RFC-dev.d document detailing how /etc/dev.d/ works
  o fixed up udev.spec to handle selinux stuff properly now
  o remove USE_DBUS and USE_SELINUX flags from the README as they are no longer present
  o remove selinux stuff from the main Makefile
  o move udev_selinux into extras/selinux
  o fix dbus build in the udev.spec file
  o remove dbus stuff from main Makefile
  o move udev_dbus to extras/dbus
  o udev_dbus can now compile properly, but linnking is another story
  o remove udev_dbus.h from Makefile
  o first cut at standalone udev_selinux program
  o remove selinux support from udev core as it's no longer needed
  o first cut at standalone udev_dbus program
  o add get_devnode() helper to udev_lib for udev_dbus program
  o remove dbus code from core udev code as it's no longer needed to be there
  o add /etc/dev.d/ support for udev add and remove events
  o fix build error in namedev.c caused by previous patch
  o 022_bk tag
  o fix 'make spotless' to really do that in klibc
  o add a question/answer about automounting usb devices to the FAQ
  o mark scsi-devfs.sh as executable
  o Increase the name size as requested by Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
  o fix udevtest to build properly after the big udev_lib change

Olaf Hering:
  o uninitialized variable for mknod and friend

Richard Gooch:
  o SCSI logical and physical names for udev

Theodore Y. T'so:
  o Trivial man page typo fixes to udev


Summary of changes from v021 to v022
============================================

<ananth:in.ibm.com>:
  o more Libsysfs updates
  o Libsysfs updates

<async:cc.gatech.edu>:
  o fix HOWTO-udev_for_dev for udevdir

Kay Sievers:
  o udev-test.pl cleanup
  o add dev node test to udev-test.pl
  o add permission tests
  o "symlink only" test
  o callout part selector tweak
  o cleanup callout fork
  o allow to specify node permissions in the rule
  o man page beauty
  o put symlink only rules to the man page
  o rename strn*() macros to strmax
  o conditional remove of trailing sysfs whitespace
  o clarify udevinfo text
  o better fix for NAME="foo-%c{N}" gets a truncated name
  o overall trivial trivial cleanup
  o fix NAME="foo-%c{N}" gets a truncated name
  o cleanup mult field string handling

<ken:cgi101.com>:
  o fix a type in docs/libsysfs.txt
  o Added line to udev.permissions.redhat
  o Include more examples in the docs area for gentoo and redhat

<md:linux.it>:
  o udevstart fixes

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add big major tests to udev-test.pl
  o add a test for a minor over 255
  o udev-test.pl: print out major:minor and perm test "ok" if is ok
  o make perm and major:minor test errors be reported properly
  o remove extra ; in namedev_parse.c
  o Added multipath-tools 0.1.1 release
  o deleted current extras/multipath directory
  o 021_bk mark
  o fix the build for older versions of gcc

Hanna V. Linder:
  o Small fix to remove extra "will" in man page

Olaf Hering:
  o make spotless
  o udev* segfaults with new klibc

Patrick Mansfield:
  o add tests for NAME="foo-%c{N}"

Summary of changes from v020 to v021
============================================

Kay Sievers:
  o install udevinfo in /usr/bin
  o blacklist pcmcia_socket

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix udev.spec to find udevinfo now that it has moved to /usr/bin
  o Fix another problem with Makefile installing initscript
  o fix the Makefile to install the init script into the proper directory
  o make spec file turn off selinux support by default


Summary of changes from v019 to v020
============================================

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o multipath update

Kay Sievers:
  o man page udevstart
  o cleanup udevstart
  o bugfix for local user
  o unlink bugfix
  o TODO update
  o clarify udevinfo device walk
  o udevinfo symlink reverse query
  o fix stroul endptr use
  o add $local user spport for permissions
  o udev - man page update
  o udev - fix debug info for multiple rule file config
  o udev - kill udevd on install
  o udev - activate formt length attribute
  o udev - safer sprintf() use

<md:linux.it>:
  o no error on enoent
  o escape dashes in man pages
  o remove usage of expr in ide-devfs.sh

<rml:ximian.com>:
  o automatically install correct initscript
  o update documetation for $local

Andrey Borzenkov:
  o Add symlink only rules support

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update the TODO list as we already have a devfs config file
  o make start_udev use udevstart binary
  o install udevstart
  o Remove Debian permission files as the Debian maintainer doesn't seem to want to share :(
  o update the Gentoo rules files
  o Add Red Hat rules and permissions files
  o add udevstart to the ignore list
  o add udevstart program based on a old patch from Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
  o unlink the file before we try to create it
  o Merge greg@bucket:/home/greg/src/udev into kroah.com:/home/greg/src/udev


Summary of changes from v018 to v019
============================================

Kay Sievers:
  o TODO update
  o udev - correct relative symlink
  o udev - safer string handling - part four
  o udev - safer string handling - part three
  o udev - safer string handling - part two
  o udev - man page update
  o udev - safer string handling all over the place
  o manpage update
  o udev - allow all files in a directory as the config
  o udev - simple klibc textual uid/gid handling

Andrey Borzenkov:
  o do not remove real .udev.tdb during RPM build

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add new TODO item about local user permissions
  o Add initial SELinux support for udev
  o fix build for very old versions of make
  o remove limit of the number of args passed to PROGRAM
  o force udev to include the internal version of libsysfs and never the external one
  o fix up libsysfs header file usage to fix bug reports from users that have sysfsutils installed already
  o remove udevtest on 'make clean'
  o remove udevd priority TODO item, as it's not needed at all

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.4


Summary of changes from v017 to v018
============================================

<ext.devoteam.varoqui:sncf.fr>:
  o [PATCH] symlink dm-[0-9]* rule
  o update extras/multipath

<john-hotplug:fjellstad.org>:
  o init.d debian patch

Kay Sievers:
  o udev - TODO update
  o udev - add %s{filename} to man page
  o udev - udevd/udevsend man page
  o udev - switch callout part selector to {attribute}
  o udev - switch SYSFS_file to SYSFS{file}
  o udev - create all partitions of blockdevice
  o allow SYSFS{file}
  o Adding '%s' format specifier to NAME and SYMLINK

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o added some scsi_id files to the bk ignore file
  o added scsi_id and some more documentation to the udev.spec file
  o update udev.rules.gentoo with new config file format
  o Update the Gentoo udev.rules and udev.permissions files
  o Create a udev.rules.examples file to hold odd udev.rules
  o add udevd priority issue to the TODO list
  o more HOWTO cleanups
  o add HOWTO detailing how to use udev to manage /dev
  o mv libsysfs/libsysfs.h to libsysfs/sysfs/libsysfs.h to make it easier to use
  o add start_udev init script
  o add support for UDEV_NO_SLEEP env variable so Gentoo people will be happy
  o start up udevd ourselves in the init script to give it some good priorities
  o update the red hat init script to handle nodes that are not present
  o add a "old style" SYSFS_attribute test to udev-test.pl
  o Have udevsend report more info in debug mode
  o Have udevd report it's version in debug mode
  o fix up bug created for udevtest in previous partition creation patch
  o update the udev.spec to add udevtest and make some more Red Hat suggested changes
  o add ability to install udevtest to Makefile
  o 017_bk mark
  o Add another test to udev-test.pl and fix a bug when only running 1 test
  o Fix bug where we did not use the "converted" kernel name if we had no rule

Patrick Mansfield:
  o udev use new libsysfs header file location
  o udev add some ID tests


Summary of changes from v016 to v017
============================================

<azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
  o make logging a config option

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o more udev-016/extras/multipath
  o more udev-016/extras/multipath
  o update extras/multipath

Kay Sievers:
  o udev - keep private data out of the database?
  o better credential patch
  o udevd - client access authorization
  o compile udevd with klibc
  o udev - fix "ignore method"
  o udev - fix cdrom symlink rule
  o convert udevsend/udevd to DGRAM and single-threaded
  o udevd - kill the lockfile
  o udevd - fix socket path length
  o udevd - switch socket path to abstract namespace
  o udevd - allow to bypass sequence number
  o include used function

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add udev_log to the documentation
  o fix offsetof() define in klibc
  o add some .spec file changes from Red Hat
  o update the init.d udev script based on a patch from Red Hat
  o remove the .udev.tdb when installing or uninstalling to be safe
  o remove the database at startup
  o fix bug in permission handling
  o update klibc to version .107
  o update the bitkeeper ignore file list
  o add udevtest program to build
  o fix problem where usb devices can be either the main device or the interface
  o more logging.h cleanups to be a bit more flexible
  o stop using mode_t as different libcs define it in different ways :(
  o remove some more KLIBC fixups that are no longer needed
  o let udev-test.pl run an individual test if you ask it to
  o Handle the '!' character that some block devices have
  o add a block device with a ! in the name, and a test for this
  o fix up 'make release' to use bk to build the export tree
  o fix log option code so that it actually works for all udev programs
  o finish syncing up with klibc
  o sync with latest version of klibc (0.107)
  o fix up Makefile dependancies for udev_version.h

Patrick Mansfield:
  o udev add wild card compare for ID
  o udev kill extra bus_id compares in match_id


Summary of changes from v015 to v016
============================================

<elkropac:students.zcu.cz>:
  o get_dev_number() in extras/ide-devfs.sh

<rrm3:rrm3.org>:
  o FAQ udev.rules.devfs

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add udevd and udevsend to the spec file
  o make /etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug symlink point to udevsend now
  o add KERNEL_DIR option so that the distros will be happy
  o make udevsend binary even smaller
  o udevsend now almost compiles with klibc, struct sockaddr_un is only problem now
  o fix up logging code so that it can be built without it being enabled
  o rework the logging code so that each program logs with the proper name in the syslog
  o remove logging.c as it's no longer needed
  o kill the last examples that contained the %D option
  o remove a __KLIBC__ tests in libsysfs, as klibc now supports getpagesize()
  o udevd - remove stupid locking error I wrote
  o update to klibc version 0.101, fixing the stdin bug
  o fix Makefile typo for USE_LSB install
  o allow dbus code to actually build again

Kay Sievers:
  o let udevsend build with klibc
  o udevd - config cleanup
  o udevd - cleanup and better timeout handling
  o fix possible buffer overflow
  o udevd - next round of fixes
  o udevinfo - missing options for man page
  o udev - trivial style cleanup


Summary of changes from v014 to v015
============================================

<mbuesch:freenet.de>:
  o LFS init script update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update klibc to version 0.98
  o clean up udevinfo on 'make clean'
  o add udevinfo man page to spec file
  o remove command line documentation from udev man page
  o create initial version of udevinfo man page
  o added URL to spec file
  o add udevinfo to udev.spec file
  o add udevinfo to install target of Makefile
  o rip out command line code from udev, now that we have udevinfo
  o udevinfo doesn't need to declare main_envp
  o move get_pair to udev_config.c because udevinfo doesn't need all of namedev.o
  o more makefile cleanups
  o move udevinfo into the main build and clean up the main Makefile a bit
  o clean up compiler warnings if building using klibc
  o make udevd only have one instance running at a time
  o new testd.block script for debugging
  o udevsnd : clean up message creation logic a bit
  o make bk ignore udevd and udevsend binaries
  o whitespace cleanups
  o remove TODO item about BUS value, as it is now done
  o add support for figuring out which device on the sysfs "chain" the rule applies to

Kay Sievers:
  o udevinfo - now a real program :)
  o udevd - cleanup and better timeout handling
  o udev - next round of udev event order daemon
  o fix udevd exec
  o udev - udevinfo with device chain walk
  o spilt udev into pieces


Summary of changes from v013 to v014
============================================

<ananthmg:rediffmail.com>:
  o libsysfs update for refresh + namedev.c changes

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o udev-013/extras/multipath update

<flamingice:sourmilk.net>:
  o minor patch for devfs rules

Kay Sievers:
  o udev - program to query all device attributes to build a rule
  o set default owner/group in db - update
  o udev - reverse user query options
  o udev - kill %D from udev-test.pl
  o add udev logging to info log
  o udev - mention format string escape char in man page

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o misc code cleanups
  o fixup logging.h to handle different logging options properly
  o clean up the logging patch a bit to make the option more like the other options
  o remove the %D modifier as it is not longer needed
  o remove unneeded keyboard rule
  o add usb_host and pci_bus to the class blacklist
  o added input device rules to udev.rules and udev.rules.devfs
  o 013_bk mark

Hanna V. Linder:
  o set default owner/group in db
  o small cut n paste error fix

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.3


Summary of changes from v012 to v013
============================================

<eike-hotplug:sf-tec.de>:
  o LSB init script and other stuff

<elkropac:students.zcu.cz>:
  o fix udev directory for Debian init script

<tiggi:infa.abo.fi>:
  o udev 012 old gcc fixup

Christophe Saout:
  o add IGNORE rule type
  o small cleanup

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update TODO with some new, small items
  o Cset exclude: greg@kroah.com|ChangeSet|20040113010256|48515
  o update the README in a few places
  o fix -d typo in the manpage update
  o Fix stupid gcc "optimization" of 1 character printk() calls.... Ick
  o oops, forgot to fix up the PROGRAM result from ID to RESULT in the config files
  o Add alsa device rules and a few other devfs rules
  o fix a few stale comments in namedev.c
  o convert the default rules files to the new format
  o convert the test shell scripts to the config file format
  o add bus test for usb-serial bus
  o Add some helpful messages if the user uses the older config file format
  o added dri rule to the default config file
  o added init.d udev script for debian
  o add a script that tests the IGNORE rule
  o add silly script that names cdrom drives based on the cd in them
  o add cdrom rule for ide cdrom
  o replace list_for_each with list_for_each_entry, saving a few lines of code
  o add a blacklist of class devices we do not want to look at

Kay Sievers:
  o fix klibc with printf() and gcc
  o udev - small script optimization
  o udev - introduce format escape char
  o udev - more CALLOUT is PROGRAM now
  o udev - CALLOUT is PROGRAM now
  o update documentation for new config file format
  o more advanced user query options
  o udev - simple debug tweak
  o udev - drop all methods :)
  o udev - advanced user query options
  o udev - Makefile error
  o udev - make exec_callout() reusable
  o udev - exec status fix for klibc
  o fix Silly udev script


Summary of changes from v011 to v012
============================================

<azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
  o make symlink work properly if there is already a file in its place
  o Fix udev gcc-2.95.4 compat

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update

Kay Sievers:
  o mention user callable udev + options in man page
  o make udev user callable to query the database
  o depend on all .h files
  o cleanup namedev_parse debug text
  o extend exec_program[]
  o ide-devfs.sh update
  o fix for apply_format()
  o check for empty symlink string
  o 'ide' missing in bus_files[]
  o small trivial cleanup of latest changes

<mbuesch:freenet.de>:
  o introduce signal handler

<rml:ximian.com>:
  o udev spec file update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o minor grammer fixes for the udev_vs_devfs document
  o move the dbus config file to etc/dbus-1/system.d/
  o move the config files to etc/udev to clean up main directory a bit
  o add Gentoo versions of the rules and permissions files
  o if using glibc, link dynamically, as no one like 500Kb udev binaries
  o minor change to udev_vs_devfs document
  o added udev vs devfs supid document to the tree
  o move the signal handling registration to after we have initialized enough stuff
  o make ide-devfs.sh executable in the tree
  o udev.permissions.debian - forgot the dm nodes
  o update the udev.permissions.debian file with new entries
  o added udev.init script for the Linux From Scratch project



Summary of changes from v010 to v011
============================================

<mbuesch:freenet.de>:
  o proper cleanup on udevdb_init() failure

<mh:nadir.org>:
  o patch udev 009-010 rpm spec file

<svetljo:gmx.de>:
  o fix udev sed Makefile usage

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add documentation about the BUS key being optional for the LABEL rule
  o add tests for LABEL rule with a device that has no bus
  o Don't require the BUS value for the LABEL rule
  o If a LABEL rule has a BUS id, then we must check to see if the device is on a bus
  o add documentation about the BUS key being optional for the CALLOUT rule
  o If a CALLOUT rule has a BUS id, then we must check to see if the device is on a bus
  o Don't require the BUS value for the CALLOUT rule
  o add test for callout rule with a device that has no bus
  o 010_bk stamp
  o added different build options to the rpm udev.spec file
  o add pci to the bus_files list
  o check for empty line a bit better in the parser
  o more init script cleanups, the stop target now calls udev to cleanup instead of just removing the whole /udev directory
  o make udev init script run udev in the background to let startup go much faster
  o fix long delay for all devices in namedev


Summary of changes from v009 to v010
============================================

<ananth:in.ibm.com>:
  o change pgsize

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update

Kay Sievers:
  o fix udev-test.pl
  o small cleanup udev-remove.c
  o experimental CALLOUT script for devfs ide node creation with cd, disc, part
  o add any valid device
  o introduce format char 'k' for kernel-name
  o trivial make fixes
  o don't overwrite old config on install
  o udev-remove.c cleanups
  o bug in udev-remove.c
  o trivial cleanup parser changes

<roman.kagan:itep.ru>:
  o fix comment and whitespace handling in config files

Adam Kropelin:
  o Allow build with empty EXTRAS

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o libsysfs 0.4.0 patch
  o fix scsi_id segfault with udev-009
  o add libsysfs docs

David T. Hollis:
  o mark config files as such in the rpm spec file

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix complier warning in namedev.c
  o add documentation for the new '%k' modifier (kernel name replacement)
  o add documentation about the multiple sysfs values that are now allowed for the LABEL rule
  o add tests for multi-file LABEL rules
  o add ability to have up to 5 SYSFS_ file/value pairs for the LABEL rule
  o Just live with a sleep(1) in namedev for now until libsysfs is fixed up
  o try to wait until the proper device file shows up in sysfs
  o remove unneeded TODO and FIXME entry
  o clean up the stand-alone tests to work properly on other people's machines
  o add tests to catch whitespace and comment config file parsing errors


Summary of changes from v008 to v009
============================================

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o more extras/multipath changes
  o and more extras/multipath updates
  o more extras/multipath updates
  o yet more extras/multipath
  o more extras/multipath updates
  o extras/multipath update

<david:fubar.dk>:
  o D-BUS patch for udev-008

<eike-hotplug:sf-tec.de>:
  o add init.d/udev to "make install"
  o add init.d/udev to the spec file

Kay Sievers:
  o don't rely on field order in namedev_parse
  o get part of callout return string
  o remove '\n' from end of callout return
  o man-page mention multiple symlinks
  o allow multiple symlinks
  o cleanup man & remove symlink comment
  o experimental (very simple) SYMLINK creation
  o man page beauty
  o pattern match for label method
  o a bug in linefeed removal

<rml:ximian.com>:
  o remove udev from runlevels on uninstall
  o install initscript in udev rpm

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o pre-libsysfs-0.4.0 patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o signal fixes due to klibc update
  o sync klibc with release 0.95
  o add mol permissions to the debian permissions file
  o update the FAQ with info about bad modprobe events from the devfs scheme
  o some cleanups due to the need for LABEL rules to use "SYSFS_" now
  o Add restart target to the etc/init.d/udev script
  o tweak the config file generation portion of the Makefile a bit
  o change devfs disk name rule from 'disk' to 'disc'
  o add vc support to udev.rules.devfs
  o added a devfs udev config file from Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
  o set default mode to 0600 to be safer
  o Makefile tweaks for the DBUS build
  o update the FAQ due to the latest devfs mess on lkml and also due to symlinks now working
  o document the different Makefile config options that we have
  o change USE_DBUS to DBUS in Makefile, and disable it by default as it's still to hard to build on all systems
  o fix formatting of udev_dbus.c to use tabs.  Also get it to build properly now
  o move all of the DBUS logic into one file and remove all of the #ifdef crud from the main code

Olaf Hering:
  o dump latest klibc into the udev build tree
  o use udevdir in udev.conf

Patrick Mansfield:
  o better allow builds of extras programs under udev
  o update udev extras/scsi_id to version 0.2


Summary of changes from v007 to v008
============================================

<azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
  o more config file parsing robustness

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o udev-007/extras/multipath update

Arnd Bergmann:
  o Build failure - missing linux/limits.h include?
  o Add format modifier for devfs like naming
  o klibc makefile fixes

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o another patch for path problem
  o quick fix for libsysfs bus
  o libsysfs changes for sysfsutils 0.3.0

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix up some duplicated function compiler warnings in libsysfs
  o fix some compiler warnings in the tdb code
  o Added Kay's name to the man page
  o update the wildcard documentation in the man page to show the new styles supported
  o fix permission handling logic
  o enable default_mode ability to actually build
  o add support for the default_mode variable, as it is documented
  o show permissions and groups in the label_test
  o remove some items off of the TODO list, as they are now done
  o fix up the tests to work without all of the environ variables
  o get rid of the majority of the debug environment variables
  o Update the man page to show the new config file, it's format, and how to use it
  o fix up the tests to support the rules file name change
  o add support for a main udev config file, udev.conf
  o turn debugging messages off by default
  o split out the namedev config parsing logic to namedev_parse.c
  o rename namedev's get_attr() to be main namedev_name_device() as that's what it really is
  o add devfs like tty rules as an example in the default config file
  o operate on the rules in the order they are in the config file (within the rule type) instead of operating on them backwards.
  o Cset exclude: dsteklof@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20031126173159|56255
  o add test for checking the BUS value
  o fix problem where we were not looking at the BUS value
  o add scsi and pci bus links in the test sysfs tree
  o add test and documentation for new %D devfs format modifier
  o changed the default location of the database to /udev/.udev.tdb to be LSB compliant
  o get rid of functions in klibc_fixups that are now in klibc
  o sync up with the 0.84 version of klibc
  o fix udev init.d script to handle all class devices in sysfs
  o fix the test.block and test.tty scripts due to their moveing.  Also add a test.all script
  o 007_bk version change to Makefile

Kay Sievers:
  o pattern matching for namedev
  o catch replace device by wildcard
  o udev.8 tweak numeric id text
  o udev-test.pl add subdir test
  o namedev.c strcat tweak
  o overall whitespace + debug text conditioning
  o udev-test.pl - tweaks

Martin Hicks:
  o Add -nodefaultlibs while compiling against klibc

Olaf Hering:
  o ARCH detection for ppc

Patrick Mansfield:
  o fix udev parallel builds with klibc


Summary of changes from v006 to v007
============================================

<md:linux.it>:
  o fix segfault in parsing bad udev.permissions file

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update default config file with a CALLOUT rule, and more documentation
  o updated the man page with the latest format specifier changes
  o added ability to put format specifiers in the CALLOUT program string
  o tweak udev-test.pl to report '0' errors if that's what happened
  o only build klibc_fixups.c if we are actually using klibc
  o add support for string group and string user names in udev.permissions
  o add getgrnam and getpwnam to klibc_fixups files
  o remove Makefile.klibc
  o add udev-test perl script from Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> which blows away my puny shell scripts
  o added debian's version of udev.permissions
  o change to 006_bk version

Kay Sievers:
  o format char for CALLOUT output
  o more namedev whitespace cleanups
  o support arguments in callout exec
  o namedev.c - change order of fields in CALLOUT
  o namedev.c whitespace + debug text cleanup
  o man page with udev.permissions wildcard

Olaf Hering:
  o static klibc udev does not link against crt0.o

Summary of changes from v005 to v006
============================================

<chris_friesen:sympatico.ca>:
  o faster test scripts

Arnd Bergmann:
  o more robust config file parsing in namedev.c
  o add bus id modifier

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o patch for libsysfs sysfs directory handling

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add another line to udev.permissions in the proper format
  o tweak replace_test
  o fix permissions to work properly now
  o add real udev.permissions file to test directory
  o fix namedev.c to build with older version of gcc
  o add dumb test for all of the different modifiers
  o update the TODO list with more items that people can easily do
  o move the test.block and test.tty scripts to the test/ directory
  o add remove actions to the test scripts
  o turn DEBUG_PARSER off by default
  o add some documentation for the %b modifier to the default config file
  o fix make install rule for when the udev symlink is already there
  o change release target in makefile
  o change debug level on printf values for now
  o updated demo config file
  o add some documentation of the modifiers to the default config file
  o add demo config file
  o updated bk ignore list for klibc generated files
  o add printf option to label test to verify it works
  o fix up printf-like functionality due to previous changes
  o get the major/minor number before we name the device
  o add scsi_id "extra" program from Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
  o Add multipath "extra" program from Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
  o trailing whitespace cleanups
  o splig LABEL and NUMBER into separate functions
  o add TOPO regression test
  o move TOPOLOGY rule to it's own function
  o fix bug where NUMBER and TOPOLOGY would not work for partitions
  o clean up the way we find the sysdevice for a block device for namedev
  o updated label test script (tests for partitions now.)
  o split REPLACE and CALLOUT into separate functions
  o add debug line for REPLACE call
  o add replace test
  o add more sysfs test tree files
  o change UDEV_SYSFS_PATH environment variable due to libsysfs change
  o fix bug in klibc's isspace function
  o fix udev-add.c to build properly with older versions of gcc
  o add prototype for ftruncate to klibc
  o Remove a few items from the TODO list that are already done
  o version number to 005_bk
  o pull some klibc stuff into the make Makefile to try to stay in sync
  o klibc build fixes

Kay Sievers:
  o apply permissions.conf support for wildcard and default name
  o man page with included placeholder list
  o implement printf-like placeholder support for NAME
  o more manpage tweaks
  o add support for subdirs
  o add uid/gid to nodes

Olaf Hering:
  o DESTDIR for udev

Paul Mundt:
  o Fixup path for kernel includes when building with klibc

Robert Love:
  o udev init script


Summary of changes from v004 to v005
============================================

<kay:vrfy.org>:
  o namedev.c comments + debug patch
  o man page update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o ignore the klibc/linux symlink
  o add klibc linux symlink info to the README
  o get 'make release' to work properly again
  o added README info for how to build using klibc
  o turn off debugging if we are building with klibc
  o turn off debugging in namedev
  o added vsyslog support to klibc
  o add ftruncate to klibc
  o klibc specific tweaks
  o libsysfs does not need mntent.h in it's header file
  o udev build tweaks to tdb's spinlock code
  o klibc makefile changes
  o build tdb and libsysfs from the same makefile as udev
  o udev-add build cleanups for other libc versions
  o tweak tdb to build within udev better
  o make libsysfs spit debug messages to the same place as the rest of udev
  o make libsysfs build cleanly
  o updated bk ignore list
  o added klibc version 0.82 (cvs tree) to the udev tree
  o makefile fix for now
  o Merge greg@bucket:/home/greg/src/udev into kroah.com:/home/greg/src/udev
  o hm, makefile bug with so many files...  will fix later
  o regression tests starting to be added
  o fix LABEL bug for device files (not class files.)
  o more warning flags to the build
  o got rid of struct device_attr
  o rename namedev.permissions and namedev.config to udev.permissions and udev.config
  o fix dbg line in namedev.c
  o more overrides of config info with env variables if in test mode
  o Fix bug causing udev to sleep forever waiting for dev file to show up
  o change version to 004_bk
  o make config files, sysfs root, and udev root configurable from config variables

Robert Love:
  o udev: sleep_for_dev() bits
  o udev: another canidate for static


Summary of changes from v003 to v004
============================================

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o new version of libsysfs patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o 004 release
  o major database cleanups
  o Changed test.block and test.tty to take ACTION from the command line
  o don't sleep if 'dev' file is already present on device add
  o fix comment about how the "dev" file is made up
  o more database work.  Now we only store the info we really need right now
  o add BUS= bug to TODO list so it will not get forgotten
  o spec file changes
  o test.block changes
  o ok, rpm likes the "_" character instead of "-" better
  o change the version to 003-bk to keep things sane with people using the bk tree
  o got "remove of named devices" working
  o fix segfaults when dealing with partitions

Kay Sievers:
  o man file update
  o man page update

Robert Love:
  o udev: mode should be mode_t
  o udev: trivial trivialities
  o udev: cool test scripts again
  o udev spec file symlink support
  o udev: cool test scripts
  o udev spec file bits


Summary of changes from v0.2 to v003
============================================

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o udevdb patch
  o udevdb prototype

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update the spec file for the new version and install process
  o fix makefile release rule to not drop tdb.h file
  o Add FAQ for udev
  o removed AUTHORS and INSTALL files as they were pretty pointless
  o copyright updates
  o Add AUTHORS and INSTALL files
  o TODO updates
  o Updatd the README
  o updated the TODO list
  o add udev man page (basically just a place holder for now.)
  o added uninstall support
  o added install target for makefile so people don't have to do it by hand anymore
  o add version to debug log on startup
  o tell the user what mknod() we are trying to do
  o add dbg_parse() to cut down on parse file debugging statements
  o put config files and database in /etc/udev by default
  o add ols 2003 udev paper to docs/
  o clean up some debugging stuff in namedev.c
  o do not build the tdb binary programs, only the objects
  o merge tdb into the build process
  o Added tdb code from latest cvs version in the samba tree
  o added my name to the .spec file
  o minor cleanups
  o cleanup the mknod code a bit
  o remove mknod callout
  o handle new major:minor format of dev files that showed up in 2.6.0-test2-bk3 or so
  o oops, everything was getting created as 000 mode, try to fix this up, but fail...
  o more test stuff

Olaf Hering:
  o print udev pid

Patrick Mansfield:
  o add callout config type to udev

Paul Mundt:
  o Fix TDB cross compilation
  o udev spec file
  o udev/libsysfs cross compile fixes


Summary of changes from v0.1 to v0.2
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o more test stuff
  o removed unneeded stuff from udev.h
  o added 0.2 change log info
  o start working on label support, and fix some segfaults for block devices
  o test config file changes
  o add NUMBER support (basically same logic as TOPOLOGY, perhaps we should
    merge this...)
  o added topology support
  o got REPLACE to work properly
  o make struct config_device contain a struct device_attr instead of
    duplicating the mess
  o block test
  o split the tests up into different files
  o split udev main logic into udev-add and udev-remove
  o Clean up the namedev interface a bit, making the code smaller
  o bk: update ignore list
  o update the tests to handle block devices too
  o add initial libsysfs support
  o added libsysfs to the build
  o added libsysfs code from sysutils-0.1.1-071803 release
  o namedev config files are fully parsed
  o more permission tests
  o make log_message spit out warnings so I don't have to spend forever
    chasing down stupid bugs that aren't there...
  o added klibc makefile
  o Initial namedev parsing of config files
  o sleep for 2 seconds to give the kernel a chance to actually create the
    files we need
  o pick a better default UDEV_ROOT
  o fix up the test to actually work
  o added more documentation in README and TODO files


Summary of changes up to v0.1
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o added more documentation in README and TODO files
  o updated the documentation
  o cleaned up the makefile a bit
  o remove now works!
  o restructure code to be able to actually get remove_node() to work
  o Creating nodes actually works
  o added stupid test script for debugging
  o added initial documentation and gpl license
  o enabled debugging
  o updated ignore list
  o added initial files
  o fixed up config
  o Initial repository create
  o BitKeeper file /home/greg/src/udev/udev/ChangeSet