X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ab5b8cac0e2202825b9d9e04f8af5db9ba911760;hp=275676d10394efda201b6a20cc0961cc59895b98;hb=d78c0b3a5b15fa1be9c70b99f91a026d0a43826a;hpb=bfa9938c0378a4ab21666ca5add4f20192609ef3 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 275676d10..ab5b8cac0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,42 @@ +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, 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. +Installations which support old kernels, but install current default +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 ========