move /dev/.udev/ to /dev/.run/udev/ and convert old udev database at udevd startup

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b5008dbf28..fcb6c75dcf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ udev 167
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 Bugfixes.
 
+The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /dev/.run/udev/.
+On new systems the tmpfs mountpoint /var/run/ will have an
+"early-boot alias" /dev/.run/ where udev and a couple of other
+early-boot tools will put their runtime data.
+On systems with LVM used, packagers must make sure, that the
+initramfs creates the /dev/.run/ mountpoint for udev to store
+the data, so that the real root will not overmount it, which
+would make it invisible.
+
+The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon
+itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary.
+
 udev 166
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 Bugfixes.