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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-09-09 18:18:17 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-09-09 18:49:07 +0200
commit6c29f2b942358d4dd9d3e7c65c13c3612dded3cc (patch)
tree2604ad41d6cd00785e13caa5515996acc3e942ee /NEWS
parent7f06ec2e19387424de34bae35320c2fe192cb69d (diff)
simplify "symlink name stack"
With well defined and kernel-supplied node names, we no longer need to support a possible stack of conflicting symlinks and node names. Only symlinks with identical names can be claimed by multiple devices. This shrinks the former /dev/.udev/names/ significantly. Also the /dev/{block,char}/MAJ:MIN" links are excluded from the name stack - they are unique and can not conflict.
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@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ 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.
+Multiple devices claiming the same names in /dev are limited to symlinks
+only now. Mixing identical symlink names and node names is not supported.
+This reduces the amount of data in the database significantly.
+
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.