X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0e486f4621e4b255f48d4878c9f83f7652657736;hp=260fb6585fedf040c1021a1bf1f270eecb63d594;hb=77b852f3334311575b9c19ffb29d4a77a21b4bb2;hpb=d41b956e7f31b2ad708c1cce86eae9e9ba365a6c diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 260fb6585..0e486f462 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,48 @@ +udev 131 +======== +Bugfixes. (And probably new bugs. :)) + +The rule matching engine got converted from a rule list to a token +array which reduced the in-memory rules representation of a full +featured distros with thousends of rules from 1.2MB to 0.17 MB. + +The limit of 5 ENV and ATTR matches, and a single instance for most +other keys per rule is gone with the new parser. + +The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign +a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual +for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final +assignment with NAME:="". + +Many thanks to Alan Jenkins for finding and optimizing some of the +computing expensive parts. + +udev 130 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Kernel devices and device nodes are connected now by reverse indizes in +/sys and /dev. A device number retrieved by a stat() or similar, the +kernel device directory can be found by looking up: + /sys/dev/{block,char}/: +and the device node of the same device by looking up: + /dev/{block,char}/: + udev 129 ======== -More libudev work. Most of udevadm's functionality comes from libudev +Fix recently introduced bug, which caused a compilation without large +file support, where vol_id does not recognize raid signatures at the end +of a volume. + +Firewire disks now create both, by-id/scsi-* and by-id/ieee-* links. +Seems some kernel versions prevent the creation of the ieee-* links, +so people used the scsi-* link which disappeared now. + +More libudev work. Almost all udevadm functionality comes from libudev now. udevadm trigger has a new option --type, which allows to trigger events -for "devices", for "subsystems" and "failed" devices. The old option +for "devices", for "subsystems", or "failed" devices. The old option --retry-failed" still works, but is no longer mentioned in the man page. udev 128