X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=RELEASE-NOTES;h=4006e510d757093256af920094bf359cfd0f5fa2;hp=cbec3d31abf20ed83b408eaa56ea469939f62ee6;hb=6acd81c8981a5f0ea80e3cdef2a10e5d595bbae3;hpb=4389ec08fb177f62fc02eb2217fed126aef3a7a3 diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index cbec3d31a..4006e510d 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +udev 077 +======== +Fix a problem if udevsend is used as the hotplug handler and tries to use +syslog, which causes a "vc" event loop. 2.6.15 will make udevsend obsolete +and this kind of problems will hopefully go away soon. + udev 076 ======== All built-in logic to work around bad sysfs timing is removed with this @@ -7,16 +13,22 @@ the timing of the "bus" link creation, the former integrated logic should be emulated by a rule placed before all other rules: ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus" -The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will always -be in /$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this +The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will be in +/$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this to anything else. +If the init script or something else used this value, just depend on +this hardcoded path. But remember _all_content_ of this directory is +still private to udev and can change at any time. Default location for rule sripts and helper programs is now: /lib/udev/. Everything that is not useful on the commandline should go into this -directory. Also /lib/udev/devices/ is recommended as a directory where -packages or the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over -to /dev at every boot. This should replace the various solutions with -custom config files. +directory. Some of the helpers in the extras folder are installed there +now. The rules need to be changed, to find the helpers there. + +Also /lib/udev/devices is recommended as a directory where packages or +the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over to /dev at +every boot. This should replace the various solutions with custom config +files. Udevsend does no longer start the udev daemon. This must be done with the init script that prepares /dev on tmpfs and creates the initial nodes,