X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b36ace5c05964ef618b28ee29444cb5e7f707bb4;hp=e743b11844e9d68bc78a93bc733641ea1456f537;hb=504a553e78eaf3f10a41f72c85a626d3942b13db;hpb=f07996885dab45102492d7f16e7e2997e264c725;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e743b1184..b36ace5c0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,22 +1,85 @@ +udev 146 +======== +New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated. + + +udev 145 +======== +Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are +changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules. + +udev 144 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the +name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be +exported with the event. + +Firmware files are looked up in: + /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware/updates + /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware" +now. + +ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata. +ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices. + +udev 143 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The configure options have changed because another library needs to be +installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix, +libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in +the README file. + +Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces +the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because +cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon. +After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for +future events, all others get cleaned up. + +To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now. +Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev. + +The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is +no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be +accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv. + +Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on, +incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version. + +To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will +build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy +is available here: + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ + +The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main +udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and +they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras. + udev 142 ======== Bugfixes. -The program vol_id is removed from the repository and blkid from the -latest util-linux-ng package replaces it. Persisten disk links for -label and uuid depend on the util-linux-ng version of blkid now. Older -versions can not be used with udev. +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, or for higher-level services use the -specialized D-Bus interface of a DeviceKit service. +users over to directly use libudev. 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. +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