X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=28321c5109ae8072df77bade720a185a2fba0fd5;hp=3d5a53d07401b07f91471ad09545ede51375ffa9;hb=a90221b61639e582e4a85d2a508784ca29a2401b;hpb=20fa0fd6a002d6bf1eb1c180515c0fed336ac0b2 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3d5a53d07..28321c510 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,60 @@ +udev 147 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 146 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udevadm trigger "--retry-failed" option, which is replaced since quite +a while by "--type=failed" is removed. + +The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN +option "ignore_error" is replaced by a "fail_event_on_error" option, and the +default is not to track any failing RUN executions. + +New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated. + +udev 145 +======== +Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are +changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules. + +udev 144 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the +name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be +exported with the event. + +Firmware files are looked up in: + /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware/updates + /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware" +now. + +ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata. +ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices. + udev 143 ======== Bugfixes. +The configure options have changed because another library needs to be +installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix, +libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in +the README file. + Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces -pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer -cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, a few -worker processes stay around for future events, all others get cleaned up. +the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because +cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon. +After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for +future events, all others get cleaned up. To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now. -Also inotify support is required now to run udev. +Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev. The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be @@ -17,6 +63,15 @@ accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv. Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on, incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version. +To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will +build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy +is available here: + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ + +The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main +udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and +they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras. + udev 142 ======== Bugfixes.