X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=940bfa61488d4d28cce63ff0df3d6ccf55867039;hp=aec8bb330b6016241d280c5de9835e967ecb18f1;hb=aba31da054ccdcf306cdb21473457da05ced3d28;hpb=fc0d4bd4a5f31ad5467918c0f899cffa25a153ca diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index aec8bb330..940bfa614 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,22 +1,50 @@ +udev 134 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The group "video" is part of the default rules now. + udev 133 ======== +Bugfix for kernels using SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option and finding parent +block devices in some cases. No common distro uses this option anymore, +and we do not get enough testing for this and recent udev versions. If +this option is not needed to run some old distro with a new kernel, +it should be disabled in the kernel config. + +Bugfix for the $links substitution variable, which may crash if no links +are created. This should not happen in usual setups because we always +create /dev/{block,char}/ links. The strings of the parsed rules, which are kept in memory, no longer -contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This reduces -the total size of a huge distro rule set to 0.08 MB, compared to the -1.2MB of udev version 130. +contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This, and the +new rules parsing/matching code reduces the total in-memory size of +a huge distro rule sets to 0.08 MB, compared to the 1.2MB of udev +version 130. The export of DEVTYPE=disk/partition got removed from the default -rules. This value is available from the kernel. -The pnp shell script modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. -ACPI devices have proper modalias support and take care of the same -functionality. +rules. This value is available from the kernel. The pnp shell script +modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. ACPI devices have _proper_ +modalias support and take care of the same functionality. Installations which support old kernels, but install current default -udev rules may need to add that to the compat rules file. +udev rules may want to add that to the compat rules file. + +Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not +stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe", +and if any other filesytem type matches at the same time, libvolume_id +will, by default, not return any probing result. This is intended to prevent +mis-detection with conflicting left-over signatures found from earlier +file system formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order +in case of multiple competing signatures. In some setups the kernel allows +to mount a volume with just the old filesystem signature still in place. +This may damage the new filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting +it. Because volume_id can not decide which one the correct signature is, +the wrong signatures need to be removed manually from the volume, or the +volume needs to be reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible +auto-mounting. udev 132 ======== - Fix segfault if compiled without optimization and dbg() does not get compiled out and uses variables which are not available.