-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
-
-
-- more documentation (can never have too much.)
-- have udevd move up to the "default" priority level if it is started by
- keventd (otherwise it runs at a _very_ low priority level.) Don't
- know if this is necessary, but it would be nice to do.
-- install the proper init.d script based on the distro we are running on.
-- persuade the distro packagers to submit their changes (or just steal them
- if we can find them...)
-- 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...
+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)
+
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