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author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | 2005-11-22 17:31:38 +0100 |
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committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | 2005-11-22 17:31:38 +0100 |
commit | e0dc4f00baaa4ad328aa13362fcf25e7ec2ae2f6 (patch) | |
tree | 6eceed9bb77818418fffb46be104a6ab2d20313e /RELEASE-NOTES | |
parent | c699bc48e1432bc1b283907a52e461b97f2e45b1 (diff) |
move some helpers from extras to /lib/udev
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES')
-rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index cbec3d31ab..86a7fa8bde 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -7,16 +7,22 @@ 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, |