X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=91698d5380aaac6cc7fb5e25fc35c7fcfca19c63;hp=417069729267b7c0e391d64e7ad7e14e275e786a;hb=619b97ff2b9e29c79dedd9aff425c7a11764c300;hpb=f24036d63b0aee735c3098d09b9e0ed450e93177 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 417069729..91698d538 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,59 @@ +udev 142 +======== +Bugfixes. + +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. + +DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. In case older kernels +need to be supported, the old shell script should be added to a compat +rules file. + +udev 141 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The processed udev events get send back to the netlink socket. Libudev +provides access to these events. This is work-in-progress, to replace +the DeviceKit daemon functionality directly with libudev. There are +upcoming kernel changes to allow non-root users to subcribe to these +events. + +udev 140 +======== +Bugfixes. + +"udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for, +instead of waiting for "all" events. + +udev 139 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed +during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev +rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished +event handling the watch is restored. + udev 138 ======== -Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch". If -closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur. +Bugfixes. -/dev/disk/by-*/* symlinks will be automatically updated. +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 ========