X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=89890a8d06dab3e4968631b343b342aa913abf41;hp=ac44d7a77de3065eb8a61eeb9e5df33bdfe51e53;hb=2417dc20f5147556d0ed4f95a37b1547fb4b0f2b;hpb=c406de19dc3ee4adcb2cd1ede704bfdd8b6b9789 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ac44d7a77..89890a8d0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,9 +2,35 @@ 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 +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 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 queue can be accessed with -udevadm settle and libudedv. +no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be +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/ + +Many extras of 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 ========