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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2009-08-19 20:49:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2009-08-19 20:49:49 +0200 |
| commit | 2ffc9cc1917b1bb6fe86881a94a47dce9aa15168 (patch) | |
| tree | 842ba77f43018179ce42e5433ce1c6cd63559c60 /NEWS | |
| parent | 24d1fea8bd609f9eb7901efd7cba7f2dee05f557 (diff) | |
change database file names
With very deeply nested devices, We can not use a single file
name to carry an entire DEVPATH. Use <subsystem>:<sysname> as
the database filename, which should also simplify the handling
of devices moving around, as these values will not change but
still be unique.
For the name stack we use the <maj>:<min> now as the filename.
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:59:56AM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> The first is that udev grumbles during boot about "file name too long"
> like the following:
>
> Aug 17 06:49:58 megadeth udevd-event[20447]: unable to create db file
> '/dev/.udev/db/\x2fdevices\x2fpci0000:00\x2f0000:00:04.0\x2f0000:17:00.0\x2f0000:18:0a.0\x2f0000:1f:00.0\x2fhost11\x2fport-11:0\x2fexpander-11:0\x2fport-11:0:0\x2fexpander-11:1\x2fport-11:1:0\x2fexpander-11:2\x2fport-11:2:17\x2fexpander-11:3\x2fport-11:3:1\x2fend_device-11:3:1\x2fbsg\x2fend_device-11:3:1':
> File name too long
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
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@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@ udev 147 ======== Bugfixes. +To support DEVPATH strings larger than the maximum file name length, the +private udev database format has changed. If some software still reads the +private files in /dev/.udev/, which it shouldn't, now it's time to fix it. +Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev +is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without +prior notice. + +NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous. +It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed +from all rules. + udev 146 ======== Bugfixes. |