-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.
+These things would be nice to have:
+ o get all distros to agree on a default set of rules
+ o rework rules to a match-action list, instead of a rules array
-greg k-h
-greg@kroah.com
+These things will change in future udev versions:
+These things are deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future udev version:
+ o DEVTYPE for disks is set by the kernel, remove it from the rules
+ o "udevadm control" commands will only accept the --<command> syntax
+ o symlink names to udevadm will no longer be resolved to old command names
-- add modifiers and more documentation about the config file to the man
- page.
-- add ability to capture CALLOUT result and use it in a device name.
-- fix kernel name logic to handle devices like sdaj and such.
-- make real test harness and have the tests be automated (instead of
- relying on me knowing what the proper files should be created.)
-- more documentation (can never have too much.)
-- document the config file format (it will change over time...)
-- add symlink generation and removal support
-- 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.)
-- add hooks to call D-BUS when new node is created or removed
-- 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.
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