X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b5008dbf287eff4f9e7d3ff6a5ef0599cfbd8bec;hp=c422eaa8e349b6ff8ad7279c89f869bdedaf7956;hb=4cbe7095226e0e4a050ef347ddc297386a571557;hpb=1f084fe5811ce251d516a8022f8c7c27d0ef1f53 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c422eaa8e..b5008dbf2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,20 +1,176 @@ +udev 167 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 166 +======== +Bugfixes. + +New and updated keymaps. + +udev 165 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udev database has changed, After installation of a new udev +version, 'udevadm info --convert-db' should be called, to let the new +udev/libudev version read the already stored data. + +udevadm now supports quoting of property values, and prefixing of +key names: + $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix=MY_ --query=property -n sda + MY_MAJOR='259' + MY_MINOR='0' + MY_DEVNAME='/dev/sda' + MY_DEVTYPE='disk' + ... + +libudev now supports: + udev_device_get_is_initialized() + udev_enumerate_add_match_is_initialized() +to be able to skip devices the kernel has created , but udev has +not already handled. + +libudev now supports: + udev_device_get_usec_since_initialized() +to retrieve the "age" of a udev device record. + +GUdev supports a more generic GUdevEnumerator class, udev TAG +handling, device initialization and timestamp now. + +The counterpart of /sys/dev/{char,block}/$major:$minor, +/dev/{char,block}/$major:$minor symlinks are now unconditionally +created, even when no rule files exist. + +New and updated keymaps. + +udev 164 +======== +Bugfixes. + +GUdev moved from /usr to /. + +udev 163 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 162 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Persistent network naming rules are disabled inside of Qemu/KVM now. + +New and updated keymaps. + +Udev gets unconditionally enabled on systemd installations now. There +is no longer the need to to run 'systemctl enable udev.service'. + +udev 161 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 160 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 159 +======== +Bugfixes. + +New and fixed keymaps. + +Install systemd service files if applicable. + +udev 158 +======== +Bugfixes. + +All distribution specific rules are removed from the udev source tree, +most of them are no longer needed. The Gentoo rules which allow to support +older kernel versions, which are not covered by the default rules anymore +has moved to rules/misc/30-kernel-compat.rules. + +udev 157 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The option --debug-trace and the environemnt variable UDEVD_MAX_CHILDS= +was removed from udevd. + +Udevd now checks the kernel commandline for the following variables: + udev.log-priority= + udev.children-max= + udev.exec-delay= +to help debuging coldplug setups where the loading of a kernel +module crashes the system. + +The subdirectory in the source tree rules/packages has been renamed to +rules/arch, anc contains only architecture specific rules now. + +udev 156 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 155 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Now the udev daemon itself, does on startup: + - copy the content of /lib/udev/devices to /dev + - create the standard symlinks like /dev/std{in,out,err}, + /dev/core, /dev/fd, ... + - use static node information provided by kernel modules + and creates these nodes to allow module on-demand loading + - possibly apply permissions to all ststic nodes from udev + rules which are annotated to match a static node + +The default mode for a device node is 0600 now to match the kernel +created devtmpfs defaults. If GROUP= is specified and no MODE= is +given the default will be 0660. + +udev 154 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udev now gradually starts to pass control over the primary device nodes +and their names to the kernel, and will in the end only manage the +permissions of the node, and possibly create additional symlinks. +As a first step NAME="" will be ignored, and NAME= setings with names +other than the kernel provided name will result in a logged warning. +Kernels that don't provide device names, or devtmpfs is not used, will +still work as they did before, but it is strongly recommended to use +only the same names for the primary device node as the recent kernel +provides for all devices. + +udev 153 +======== +Fix broken firmware loader search path. + udev 152 ======== Bugfixes. -"udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now, instead of "add" -events. +"udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now instead of "add" +events. The "udev boot script" might need to add "--action=add" to +the trigger command if not already there, in case the initial coldplug +events are expected as "add" events. The option "all_partitons" was removed from udev. This should not be needed for usual hardware. Udev can not safely make assumptions -about non-exixting partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no -longer provide such an unreliable and unsafe option. +about non-existing partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no +longer provide this unreliable and unsafe option. + +The option "ignore_remove" was removed from udev. With devtmpfs +udev passed control over device nodes to the kernel. This option +should not be needed, or can not work as advertised. Neither +udev nor the kernel will remove device nodes which are copied from +the /lib/udev/devices/ directory. All "add|change" matches are replaced by "!remove" in the rules and in the udev logic. All types of events will update possible symlinks and permissions, only "remove" is handled special now. -The modem mode switch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch +The modem modeswitch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch program should be used instead. New and fixed keymaps.