X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8eb5fc8e24721c1c2987a27c4eb65cc3c085c4fc;hp=4629e1ec011f540cda472c1b9701b66cb934d6d3;hb=aa1aa46f95093df2d3f529a7ee7e3eecae9b81fe;hpb=57ec3a57f1caa0e325e5ac8a7f54761148b36b1b diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4629e1ec0..8eb5fc8e2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,20 @@ udev 142 ======== Bugfixes. +The udev daemon will now create /dev/null, /dev/console, /dev/kmsg at +startup, if they don't exist already. + +Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages +to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be +installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters +match on the : properties of the device. + This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current +users over to directly use libudev, or for higher-level services use the +specialized D-Bus interface of a DeviceKit service. + Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might +change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported interface +are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen soon. + A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at startup.