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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog39
-rw-r--r--Makefile2
-rw-r--r--README21
-rw-r--r--RELEASE-NOTES4
4 files changed, 53 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fac6b5f226..299e613ce7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -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
============================================
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2fcc4247fa..a53bd1fe0a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -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
diff --git a/README b/README
index f37c12a8e0..00acf97c27 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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.