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-This is a short list of things that needs to be done.  They are in no specific
-order.  I will gladly accept patches for any of these items, or any other stuff
-people offer up.
-
-greg k-h
-greg@kroah.com
-
-
-- fix kernel name logic to handle devices like sdaj and such.
-- more documentation (can never have too much.)
-- better partition support (it's a hack right now, maybe new libsysfs changes
-  can help out a lot here.)
-- allow database to be queried by other programs
-- split program into two pieces (daemon and helper that sends events to it).
-  This will allow us to keep track of sequences, and lots of other needed
-  stuff.
-- keep track of current permissions on devices when daemon shuts down.
-- better permission handling
-- create kernel name to devfs name config file so that all of the devfs users
-  will have an upgrade path.
-- do early boot logic (putting udev into initramfs, handle pivot-root,
-  etc.)
-- lots of other stuff...
-- actually use the BUS= value to determine where the LABEL rule should look
-  (right now it's ignored, and we only look in the current sysfs directory.)
-  This is needed, for example, to look at the usb device's serial number of a
-  usb-storage device, instead of the scsi device's sysfs directory for the
-  serial number.
+These things need to be done, or would be nice to have:
+
+  o Log the relationship of the kernel name and the persistent disk name
+    to syslog, so any error logged from the kernel can be associated with
+    any of the links at that time.
+
+  o Fix inconsistency with KERNEL and ID. ID will walk up the device chain
+    but it matches on "KERNEL names" too. And ID and SYSFS can only match
+    on the same device in the chain. That's pretty hard to explain and to
+    understand. Same for SUBSYSTEM and BUS.
+
+
+These things are deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future
+udev version:
+
+  o remove broken %e enumeration
+    (simple enumerations can't work and should go)
+
+  o remove devfs naming scheme rules and scripts
+
+  o remove MODALIAS + $modalias
+    (ENV{MODALIAS}, $env{MODALIAS}, $sysfs{modalias} will do it)
+
+  o remove udevstart, udevsend
+    (we rely on the kernel "uevent" triggers of kernel 2.6.15 and no longer
+     want to guess event properties from sysfs like udevstart is doing it)
+