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+udev 159
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+udev 158
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+All distribution specific rules are removed from the udev source tree,
+most of them are no longer needed. The Gentoo rules which allow to support
+older kernel versions, which are not covered by the default rules anymore
+has moved to rules/misc/30-kernel-compat.rules.
+
+udev 157
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The option --debug-trace and the environemnt variable UDEVD_MAX_CHILDS=
+was removed from udevd.
+
+Udevd now checks the kernel commandline for the following variables:
+  udev.log-priority=<syslog priority>
+  udev.children-max=<maximum number of workers>
+  udev.exec-delay=<seconds to delay the execution of RUN=>
+to help debuging coldplug setups where the loading of a kernel
+module crashes the system.
+
+The subdirectory in the source tree rules/packages has been renamed to
+rules/arch, anc contains only architecture specific rules now.
+
+udev 156
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+udev 155
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+Now the udev daemon itself, does on startup:
+  - copy the content of /lib/udev/devices to /dev
+  - create the standard symlinks like /dev/std{in,out,err},
+    /dev/core, /dev/fd, ...
+  - use static node information provided by kernel modules
+    and creates these nodes to allow module on-demand loading
+  - possibly apply permissions to all ststic nodes from udev
+    rules which are annotated to match a static node
+
+The default mode for a device node is 0600 now to match the kernel
+created devtmpfs defaults. If GROUP= is specified and no MODE= is
+given the default will be 0660.
+
+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.
 
 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
 
 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.
 
 
 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.
 program should be used instead.
 
 New and fixed keymaps.