X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c8480fa2b35bd43f4bebdde3c8d98503f753fb62;hp=8b51c10a84bdbd208319d075ba412002df98eccb;hb=26812f0a13eacb8615f66f9048cd9575b2b8a2cf;hpb=1e03b754aef576a5cb75f01b1805cdc1f9cc292f diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8b51c10a8..c8480fa2b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,17 +3,26 @@ udev 143 Bugfixes. Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces -pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer -cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, the -no longer needed worker processes get killed. +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 required now to run udev. +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/ + udev 142 ======== Bugfixes.