X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5dafcad1db80c2a18a96fbfa6e997064adc5089a;hp=0e5395b3b4e06a41d81e893a9e58864d1de2d340;hb=03e0170db3ef69c70db7cd74e6689c7b78c91c3d;hpb=67c89548d112e3d00ccdbad399720458b8289117 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0e5395b3b..5dafcad1d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,22 @@ +udev 138 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch". +If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur. +/dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated. + +udev 137 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks +are always updated with a test run now. + +The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user +and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems) or --resolve-names=late to +lookup user and groups every time events are handled. + udev 136 ======== Bugfixes. @@ -22,8 +41,8 @@ which get added and removed for the specific users on login/logout and session activity/inactivity. These groups are only provided for custom setups, and mainly system services, to allow proper privilege separation. A video-streaming daemon uid would be a member of "audio" and "video", to get -access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user ever belongs in -the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with +access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user should ever belong +to the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with any ssh-session established from the other side of the world. /dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices, @@ -31,7 +50,7 @@ which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real USB serial number in the device - are always found with the same name in the by-id/ directory. -Completely Identical devices may overwrite their names in by-id/ +Completely identical devices may overwrite their names in by-id/ and can only be found reliably in the by-path/ directory. Devices specified by by-path/ must not change their connection, like the USB port number they are plugged in, to keep their name.