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author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2008-03-15 00:05:02 +0100 |
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committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2008-03-15 00:05:02 +0100 |
commit | 65e9e8c5e8de192b2b6eea0dcb6089268eb9ad2a (patch) | |
tree | e9bd4a9397ea969ea7fe8194b85b16c61069ff29 | |
parent | 064360cde8f35d8ac6faf418ddfa39b9f3da4347 (diff) |
release 119
-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 39 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | README | 21 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 4 |
4 files changed, 53 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,42 @@ +Summary of changes from v118 to v119 +============================================ + +Anthony L. Awtrey (1): + do not skip RUN execution if device node removal fails + +Harald Hoyer (2): + rules: Fedora update + rules: do not set GROUP="disk" for scanners + +Jiri Slaby (1): + rules_generator: add missing write_net_rules unlock + +Karel Zak (2): + volume_id: fix UUID raw buffer usage + volume_id: fix typo in function documentation + +Kay Sievers (10): + switch mailing lists to linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org + rules: remove tty rule which can never run because of an earlier "last_rule" + volume_id: update ext detection + selinux: set context for real file name not the temp name + hack to allow ATTR{block/*/uevent}="change" + rules_generator: add KERNEL=="<netifname>*" to generated rules + persistent device naming: also run on "change" event + test: add "subsystem" links to all devices + sysfs: depend on "subsystem" link + extend hack to allow TEST=="*/start" + +Matthias Schwarzott (1): + volume_id: respect LDFLAGS + +Neil Williams (1): + volume_id: add prefix=, exec_prefix= + +Roy Marples (1): + Makefile: do not require GNU install + + Summary of changes from v117 to v118 ============================================ @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # -VERSION = 118 +VERSION = 119 # set this to make use of syslog USE_LOG = true @@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ Important Note: recommend to replace a distro's udev installation with the upstream version. Requirements: - - Version 2.6.15 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of + - Version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of udev. The kernel may have a requirement on udev too, see Documentation/Changes in the kernel source tree for the actual dependency. - The kernel must have sysfs, unix domain sockets and networking enabled. (unix domain sockets (CONFIG_UNIX) as a loadable kernel module may work, - but it is completely silly - don't complain if anything goes wrong.) + but it does not make any sense - don't complain if anything goes wrong.) - The proc filesystem must be mounted on /proc, the sysfs filesystem must - be mounted at /sys. No other location is supported by udev. + be mounted at /sys. No other locations are supported by udev. Operation: @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Operation: /etc/udev/rules.d/ which make it possible to hook into the event processing to load required kernel modules and setup devices. For all devices the kernel exports a major/minor number, udev will create a - device node with the default kernel name or the one specified by a + device node with the default kernel name, or the one specified by a matching udev rule. @@ -71,22 +71,19 @@ Compile Options: Installation: - The install target intalls the udev binaries in the default locations, - All at boot time reqired binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin. + All binaries will be installed in /lib/udev or /sbin. - The default location for scripts and binaries that are called from - rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, should use + rules is /lib/udev. Other packages who install udev rules, may use that directory too. - - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices directory to place + - It is recommended to use the /lib/udev/devices/ directory to place device nodes and symlinks in, which are copied to /dev at every boot. That way, nodes for broken subsystems or devices which can't be detected automatically by the kernel, will always be available. - - Copies of the rules files for the major distros are provided as examples - in the etc/udev directory. - - - The persistent device naming links in /dev/disk/ are required by other - software that depends on the data udev has collected from the devices + - Default udev rules and persistent device naming rules are required by other + software that depends on the data udev collects from the devices, and should be installed by default with every udev installation. Please direct any comment/question/concern to the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list at: diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 58564edcd8..9446a68b3c 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +udev 119 +======== +Bugfixes. + udev 118 ======== Bugfixes. |