X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=97109e31b4527161026a35bddbde91e549c074bb;hp=f41868755522228796a25c0d4acb3c20d2d0611e;hb=9d5bdeb3d3c7995a132b297bd27003b50da82d08;hpb=e2151b00e92dde5b9e2b06052b358c8101f29165 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f41868755..97109e31b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,36 @@ -udev 142 +udev 143 ======== Bugfixes. -A too old kernel or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not -supported since while and udevd will log an error message at -startup. +udev 142 +======== +Bugfixes. -DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. To support older -kernels, the old shell script should be added to a possible compat +The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the +repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng +package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the +util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid +can not be used with udev. + +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. + Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might +eventually 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. It should still be able to boot-up, but advanced rules and system +services which depend on the information not available in the old sysfs +format will fail to work correctly. + +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