X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0e486f4621e4b255f48d4878c9f83f7652657736;hp=5e0519ec9904aa5aac6d65ce32b02668a8d496b2;hb=ba6e84fe6a00069e59f787f417cb305843cb85f7;hpb=714131f1f2115bb4279d079e4b56a67bedcf2e9a diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5e0519ec9..0e486f462 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,33 @@ +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 ======== Fix recently introduced bug, which caused a compilation without large