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@@ -0,0 +1,861 @@ +udev 125 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should +be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private to +the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up rule +files from: + /lib/udev/rules.d/ - default installed rules + /etc/udev/rules.d/ - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules + /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after bootup +It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are sorted +in lexical order. + +To help creating /dev/root, we have now: + $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix="ROOT_" --device-id-of-file=/ + ROOT_MAJOR=8 + ROOT_MINOR=5 +In case the current --device-id-of-file is already used, please switch to +the --export format version, it saves the output parsing and the old +format will be changed to use ':' as a separator, like the format in the +sysfs 'dev' file. + +udev 124 +======== +Fix cdrom_id to properly recognize blank media. + +udev 123 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Tape drive id-data is queried from /dev/bsg/* instead of the tape +nodes. This avoids rewinding tapes on open(). + +udev 122 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The symlinks udevcontrol and udevtrigger are no longer installed by +the Makefile. + +The scsi_id program does not depend on sysfs anymore. It can speak +SGv4 now, so /dev/bsg/* device nodes can be used, to query SCSI device +data, which should solve some old problems with tape devices, where +we better do not open all tape device nodes to identify the device. + +udev 121 +======== +Many bugfixes. + +The cdrom_id program is replaced by an advanced version, which can +detect most common device types, and also properties of the inserted +media. This is part of moving some basic functionality from HAL into +udev (and the kernel). + +udev 120 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The last WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rule is removed from the default rules. + +The symlinks to udevadm for the debugging tools: udevmonitor and +udevtest are no longer created. + +The symlinks to the udevadm man page for the old tool names are +no longer created. + +Abstract namespace sockets paths in RUN+="socket:@<path>" rules, +should be prefixed with '@' to indicate that the path is not a +real file. + +udev 119 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 118 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udevstart is removed from the tree, it did not get installed for +a long time now, and is long replaced by trigger and settle. + +udev 117 +======== +Bugfixes. + +All udev tools are merged into a single binary called udevadm. +The old names of the tools are built-in commands in udevadm now. +Symlinks to udevadm, with the names of the old tools, provide +the same functionality as the standalone tools. There is also +only a single udevadm.8 man page left for all tools. + +Tools like mkinitramfs should be checked, if they need to include +udevadm in the list of files. + +udev 116 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 115 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The etc/udev/rules.d/ directory now contains a default set of basic +udev rules. This initial version is the result of a rules file merge +of Fedora and openSUSE. For these both distros only a few specific +rules are left in their own file, named after the distro. Rules which +are optionally installed, because they are only valid for a specific +architecture, or rules for subsystems which are not always used are +in etc/udev/packages/. + +udev 114 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Dynamic rules can be created in /dev/.udev/rules.d/ to trigger +actions by dynamically created rules. + +SYMLINK=="<value>" matches agains the entries in the list of +currently defined symlinks. The links are not created in the +filesystem at that point in time, but the values can be matched. + +RUN{ignore_error}+="<program>" will ignore any exit code from the +program and not record as a failed event. + +udev 113 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Final merge of patches/features from the Ubuntu package. + +udev 112 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Control characters in filesystem label strings are no longer silenty +removed, but hex-encoded, to be able to uniquely identify the device +by its symlink in /dev/disk/by-label/. +If libvolume_id is used by mount(8), LABEL= will work as expected, +if slashes or other characters are used in the label string. + +To test the existence of a file, TEST=="<file>" and TEST!="<file>" +can be specified now. The TEST key accepts an optional mode mask +TEST{0100}=="<is executable file>". + +Scsi_id now supports a mode without expecting scsi-specific sysfs +entries to allow the extraction of cciss-device persistent properties. + +udev 111 +======== +Bugfixes. + +In the future, we may see uuid's which are just simple character +strings (see the DDF Raid Specification). For that reason vol_id now +exports ID_FS_UUID_SAFE, just like ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE. For things like +the creation of symlinks, the *_SAFE values ensure, that no control +or whitespace characters are used in the filename. + +Possible users of libvolume_id, please use the volume_id_get_* functions. +The public struct will go away in a future release of the library. + +udev 110 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Removal of useless extras/eventrecorder.sh. + +udev 109 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 108 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The directory multiplexer for dev.d/ and hotplug.d are finally removed +from the udev package. + +udev 107 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Symlinks can have priorities now, the priority is assigned to the device +and specified with OPTIONS="link_priority=100". Devices with higher +priorities overwrite the symlinks of devices with lower priorities. +If the device that currently owns the link, goes away, the symlink +will be removed, and recreated, pointing to the next device with the +highest actual priority. This should make /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid,id} +more reliable, if multiple devices contain the same metadata and overwrite +these symlinks. + +The dasd_id program is removed from the udev tree, and dasdinfo, with the +needed rules, are part of the s390-tools now. + +Please add KERNEL=="[0-9]*:[0-9]*" to the scsi wait-for-sysfs rule, +we may get the scsi sysfs mess fixed some day, and this will only catch +the devices we are looking for. + +USB serial numbers for storage devices have the target:lun now appended, +to make it possibble to distinguish broken multi-lun devices with all +the same SCSI identifiers. + +Note: The extra "run_directory" which searches and executes stuff in +/etc/hotplug.d/ and /etc/dev.d/ is long deprecated, and will be removed +with the next release. Make sure, that you don't use it anymore, or +provides your own implementation of that inefficient stuff. +We are tired of reports about a "slow udev", because these directories +contain stuff, that runs with _every_ event, instead of using rules, +that run programs only for the matching events. + +udev 106 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 105 +======== +Bugfixes. + +DRIVER== will match only for devices that actually have a real +driver. DRIVERS== must be used, if parent devices should be +included in the match. + +Libvolume_id's "linux_raid" detection needed another fix. + +udev 104 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 103 +======== +Add additional check to volume_id detection of via_raid, cause +some company decided to put a matching pattern all over the empty +storage area of their music players. + +udev 102 +======== +Fix path_id for SAS devices. + +udev 101 +======== +The udev daemon can be started with --debug-trace now, which will +execute all events serialized to get a chance to catch a possible +action that crashes the box. + +A warning is logged, if PHYSDEV* keys, the "device" link, or a parent +device attribute like $attr{../file} is used, only WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rules +are excluded from the warning. Referencing parent attributes directly +may break when something in the kernel driver model changes. Udev will +just find the attribute by walking up the parent chain. + +Udevtrigger now sorts the list of devices depending on the device +dependency, so a "usb" device is triggered after the parent "pci" +device. + +udev 100 +======== +Revert persistent-storage ata-serial '_' '-' replacement. + +udev 099 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udevtrigger can now filter the list of devices to be triggered. Matches +for subsystems or sysfs attributes can be specified. + +The entries in /dev/.udev/queue and /dev/.udev/failed have changed to +zero-sized files to avoid pointing to /sys and confuse broken tools which +scan the /dev directory. To retry failed events, udevtrigger --retry-failed +should be used now. + +The rules and scripts to create udev rules for persistent network +devices and optical drives are in the extras/rules_generator directory +now. If you use something similar, please consider replacing your own +version with this, to share the support effort. The rule_generator +installs its own rules into /etc/udev/rules.d. + +The cdrom_id tool installs its own rule now in /etc/udev/rules.d, cause +the rule_generator depends on cdrom_id to be called in an earlier rule. + +udev 098 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Renaming of some key names (the old names still work): +BUS -> SUBSYSTEMS, ID -> KERNELS, SYSFS -> ATTRS, DRIVER -> DRIVERS. +(The behavior of the key DRIVER will change soon in one of the next +releases, to match only the event device, please switch to DRIVERS +instead. If DRIVER is used, it will behave like DRIVERS, but an error +is logged. +With the new key names, we have a more consistent and simpler scheme. +We can match the properties of the event device only, with: KERNEL, +SUBSYSTEM, ATTR, DRIVER. Or include all the parent devices in the match, +with: KERNELS, SUBSYSTEMS, ATTRS, DRIVERS. ID, BUS, SYSFS, DRIVER are no +longer mentioned in the man page and should be switched in the rule +files. + +ATTR{file}="value" can be used now, to write to a sysfs file of the +event device. Instead of: + ..., SYSFS{type}=="0|7|14", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 60 > /sys$$DEVPATH/timeout'" +we now can do: + ..., ATTR{type}=="0|7|14", ATTR{timeout}="60" + +All the PHYSDEV* keys are deprecated and will be removed from a +future kernel: + PHYDEVPATH - is the path of a parent device and should not be + needed at all. + PHYSDEVBUS - is just a SUBSYSTEM value of a parent, and can be + matched with SUBSYSTEMS== + PHYSDEVDRIVER - for bus devices it is available as ENV{DRIVER}. + Newer kernels will have DRIVER in the environment, + for older kernels udev puts in. Class device will + no longer carry this property of a parent and + DRIVERS== can be used to match such a parent value. +Note that ENV{DRIVER} is only available for a few bus devices, where +the driver is already bound at device event time. On coldplug, the +events for a lot devices are already bound to a driver, and they will have +that value set. But on hotplug, at the time the kernel creates the device, +it can't know what driver may claim the device after that, therefore +in most cases it will be empty. + +Failed events should now be re-triggered with: + udevtrigger --retry-failed. +Please switch to this command, so we keep the details of the /dev/.udev/failed/ +files private to the udev tools. We may need to switch the current symlink +target, cause some obviously broken tools try to scan all files in /dev +including /dev/.udev/, find the links to /sys and end up stat()'ing sysfs files +million times. This takes ages on slow boxes. + +The udevinfo attribute walk (-a) now works with giving a device node +name (-n) instead of a devpath (-p). The query now always works, also when +no database file was created by udev. + +The built-in /etc/passwd /etc/group parser is removed, we always depend on +getpwnam() and getgrnam() now. One of the next releases will depend on +fnmatch() and may use getopt_long(). + +udev 097 +======== +Bugfixes and small improvements. + +udev 096 +======== +Fix path_id for recent kernels. + +udev 095 +======== +%e is finally gone. + +Added support for swapping network interface names, by temporarily +renaming the device and wait for the target name to become free. + +udev 094 +======== +The built-in MODALIAS key and substitution is removed. + +udev 093 +======== +The binary firmware helper is replaced by the usual simple +shell script. Udevsend is removed from the tree. + +udev 092 +======== +Bugfix release. + +udev 091 +======== +Some more keys require the correct use of '==' and '=' depending +on the kind of operation beeing an assignment or a match. Rules +with invalid operations are skipped and logged to syslog. Please +test with udevtest if the parsing of your rules throws errors and +fix possibly broken rules. + +udev 090 +======== +Provide "udevsettle" to wait for all current udev events to finish. +It also watches the current kernel netlink queue by comparing the +even sequence number to make sure that there are no current pending +events that have not already arrived in the daemon. + +udev 089 +======== +Fix rule to skip persistent rules for removable IDE devices, which +also skipped optical IDE drives. + +All *_id program are installed in /lib/udev/ by default now. + +No binary is stripped anymore as this should be done in the +packaging process and not at build time. + +libvolume_id is provided as a shared library now and vol_id is +linked against it. Also one of the next HAL versions will require +this library, and the HAL build process will also require the +header file to be installed. The copy of the same code in HAL will +be removed to have only a single copy left on the system. + +udev 088 +======== +Add persistent links for SCSI tapes. The rules file is renamed +to 60-persistent-storage.rules. + +Create persistent path for usb devices. Can be used for all sorts +of devices that can't be distinguished by other properties like +multiple identical keyboards and mice connected to the same box. + +Provide "udevtrigger" program to request events on coldplug. The +shell script is much too slow with thousends of devices. + +udev 087 +======== +Fix persistent disk rules to exclude removable IDE drives. + +Warn if %e, $modalias or MODALIAS is used. + +udev 086 +======== +Fix queue export, which wasn't correct for subsequent add/remove +events for the same device. + +udev 085 +======== +Fix cramfs detection on big endian. + +Make WAIT_FOR_SYSFS usable in "normal" rules and silent if the whole +device goes away. + +udev 084 +======== +If BUS== and SYSFS{}== have been used in the same rule, the sysfs +attributes were only checked at the parent device that matched the +by BUS requested subsystem. Fix it to also look at the device we +received the event for. + +Build variable CROSS has changed to CROSS_COMPILE to match the kernel +build name. + +udev 083 +======== +Fix a bug where NAME="" would prevent RUN from beeing executed. + +RUN="/bin/program" does not longer automatically add the subsystem +as the first parameter. This is from the days of /sbin/hotplug +which is dead now and it's just confusing to need to add a space at +the end of the program name to prevent this. +If you use rules that need the subsystem as the first parameter, +like the old "udev_run_hotlugd" and "udev_run_devd", add the subsystem +to the key like RUN+="/bin/program $env{SUBSYSTEM}". + +udev 082 +======== +The udev man page has moved to udev(7) as it does not describe a command +anymore. The programs udev, udevstart and udevsend are no longer installed +by default and must be copied manually, if they should be installed or +included in a package. + +Fix a bug where "ignore_device" could run earlier collected RUN keys before +the ignore rule was applied. + +More preparation for future sysfs changes. usb_id and scsi_id no longer +depend on a magic order of devices in the /devices chain. Specific devices +should be requested by their subsytem. + +This will always find the scsi parent device without depending on a specific +path position: + dev = sysfs_device_get(devpath); + dev_usb = sysfs_device_get_parent_with_subsystem(dev, "scsi"); + +The "device" link in the current sysfs layout will be automatically +_resolved_ as a parent and in the new sysfs layout it will just _be_ the +parent in the devpath. If a device is requested by it's symlink, like all +class devices in the new sysfs layout will look like, it gets automatically +resolved and substituted with the real devpath and not the symlink path. + +Note: +A similar logic must be applied to _all_ sysfs users, including +scripts, that search along parent devices in sysfs. The explicit use of +the "device" link must be avoided. With the future sysfs layout all +DEVPATH's will start with /devices/ and have a "subsystem" symlink poiting +back to the "class" or the "bus". The layout of the parent devices in +/devices is not necessarily expected to be stable across kernel releases and +searching for parents by their subsystem should make sysfs users tolerant +for changed parent chains. + +udev 081 +======== +Prepare udev to work with the experimental kernel patch, that moves +/sys/class devices to /sys/devices and /sys/block to /sys/class/block. + +Clarify BUS, ID, $id usage and fix $id behavior. This prepares for +moving the class devices to /sys/devices. + +Thanks again to Marco for help finding a hopefully nice compromise +to make %b simpler and working again. + +udev 080 +======== +Complete removal of libsysfs, replaced by simple helper functions +which are much simpler and a bit faster. The udev daemon operatesentirely +on event parameters and does not use sysfs for simple rules anymore. +Please report any new bugs/problems, that may be caused by this big +change. They will be fixed immediately. + +The enumeration format character '%e' is deprecated and will be +removed sometimes from a future udev version. It never worked correctly +outside of udevstart, so we can't use it with the new parallel +coldplug. A simple enumeration is as useless as the devfs naming +scheme, just get rid of both if you still use it. + +MODALIAS and $modalias is not needed and will be removed from one of +the next udev versions, replace it in all rules with ENV{MODALIAS} or +the sysfs "modalias" value. + +Thanks a lot to Marco for all his help on finding and fixing bugs. + +udev 079 +======== +Let scsi_id request libata drive serial numbers from page 0x80. + +Renamed etc/udev/persistent.rules to persistent-disk.rules and +added /dev/disk/by-name/* for device mapper device names. + +Removed %e from the man page. It never worked reliably outside +of udevstart and udevstart is no longer recommended to use. + +udev 078 +======== +Symlinks are now exported to the event environment. Hopefully it's no +longer needed to run udevinfo from an event process, like it was +mentioned on the hotplug list: + UDEV [1134776873.702967] add@/block/sdb + ... + DEVNAME=/dev/sdb + DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-IBM_Memory_Key_0218B301030027E8 /dev/disk/by-path/usb-0218B301030027E8:0:0:0 + +udev 077 +======== +Fix a problem if udevsend is used as the hotplug handler and tries to use +syslog, which causes a "vc" event loop. 2.6.15 will make udevsend obsolete +and this kind of problems will hopefully go away soon. + +udev 076 +======== +All built-in logic to work around bad sysfs timing is removed with this +version. The need to wait for sysfs files is almost fixed with a kernel +version that doesn't work with this udev version anyway. Until we fix +the timing of the "bus" link creation, the former integrated logic should +be emulated by a rule placed before all other rules: + ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus" + +The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will be in +/$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. 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, +before starting the daemon. + +udev 075 +======== +Silent a too verbose error logging for the old hotplug.d/ dev.d/ +emulation. + +The copy of klibc is removed. A systemwide installed version of klibc +should be used to build a klibc udev now. + +udev 074 +======== +NAME="" will not create any nodes, but execute RUN keys. To completely +ignore an event the OPTION "ignore_device" should be used. + +After removal of the reorder queue, events with a TIMEOUT can be executed +without any queuing now. + +udev 073 +======== +Fixed bug in udevd, if inotify is not available. We depend on netlink +uevents now, kernels without that event source will not work with that +version of udev anymore. + +udev 072 +======== +The rule parsing happens now in the daemon once at startup, all udev +event processes inherit the already parsed rules from the daemon. +It is shipped with SUSE10.0 and reduces heavily the system load at +startup. The option to save precompiled rules and let the udev process +pick the them up is removed, as it's no longer needed. + +Kernel 2.6.15 will have symlinks at /class/input pointing to the real +device. Libsysfs is changed to "translate" the requested link into the +real device path, as it would happen with the hotplug event. Otherwise +device removal and the udev database will not work. + +Using 'make STRIPCMD=' will leave the binaries unstripped for debugging +and packaging. + +A few improvements for vol_id, the filesytem probing code. + +udev 071 +======== +Fix a stupid typo in extras/run_directory for "make install". + +scsi_id creates the temporary devnode now in /dev for usage with a +non-writable /tmp directory. + +The uevent kernel socket buffer can carry app. 50.000 events now, +let's see who can break this again. :) + +The upcoming kernel will have a new input driver core integration. +Some class devices are now symlinks to the real device. libsysfs +needs a fix for this to work correctly. Udevstart of older udev +versions will _not_ create these devices! + +udev 070 +======== +Fix a 'install' target in the Makefile, that prevents EXTRAS from +beeing installed. + +udev 069 +======== +A bunch of mostly trivial bugfixes. From now on no node name or +symlink name can contain any character than plain whitelisted ascii +characters or validated utf8 byte-streams. This is needed for the +/dev/disk/by-label/* links, because we import untrusted data and +export it to the filesystem. + +udev 068 +======== +More bugfixes. If udevd was started from the kernel, we don't +have stdin/stdout/stderr, which broke the forked tools in some +situations. + +udev 067 +======== +Bugfix. udevstart event ordering was broken for a long time. +The new run_program() uncovered it, because /dev/null was not +available while we try to run external programs. +Now udevstart should create it before we run anything. + +udev 066 +======== +Minor bugfixes and some distro rules updates. If you don't have the +persistent disk rules in /dev/disk/by-*/* on your distro, just +grab it from here. :) + +udev 065 +======== +We can use socket communication now to pass events from udev to +other programs: + RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" +will pass the whole udev event to the HAL daemon without the need +for a forked helper. (See ChangeLog for udevmonitor, as an example) + +udev 064 +======== +Mostly bugfixes and see ChangeLog. + +The test for the existence of an environment value should be +switched from: + ENV{KEY}=="*" to ENV{KEY}=="?*" +because "*" will not fail anymore, if the key does not exist or +is empty. + +udev 063 +======== +Bugfixes and a few tweaks described in the ChangeLog. + +udev 062 +======== +Mostly a Bugfix release. + +Added WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="<attribute>" to be able to fight against the sysfs +timing with custom rules. + +udev 061 +======== +We changed the internal rule storage format. Our large rule files took +2 MB of RAM, with the change we are down to 99kB. + +If the device-node has been created with default name and no symlink or +options are to remenber, it is not longer stored in the udevdb. HAL will +need to be updated to work correctly with that change. + +To overrride optimization flags, OPTFLAGS may be used now. + +udev 060 +======== +Bugfix release. + +udev 059 +======== +Major changes happened with this release. The goal is to take over the +complete kernel-event handling and provide a more efficient way to dispatch +kernel events. Replacing most of the current shell script logic and the +kernel forked helper with a netlink-daemon and a rule-based event handling. + +o udevd listens to netlink events now. The first valid netlink event + will make udevd ignore any message from udevsend that contains a + SEQNUM, to avoid duplicate events. The forked events can be disabled + with: + echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug + For full support, the broken input-subsytem needs to be fixed, not to + bypass the driver core. + +o /etc/dev.d/ + /etc/hotplug.d/ directory multiplexing is completely + removed from udev itself and must be emulated by calling small + helper binaries provided in the extras folder: + make EXTRAS=extras/run_directory/ + will build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd, which can be called + from a rule if needed: + RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd" + The recommended way to handle this is to convert all the calls from + the directories to explicit udev rules and get completely rid of the + multiplexing. (To catch a ttyUSB event, you now no longer need to + fork and exit 300 tty script instances you are not interested in, it + is just one rule that matches exactly the device.) + +o udev handles now _all_ events not just events for class and block + devices, this way it is possible to control the complete event + behavior with udev rules. Especially useful for rules like: + ACTION="add", DEVPATH="/devices/*", MODALIAS=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias" + +o As used in the modalias rule, udev supports now textual + substitution placeholder along with the usual format chars. This + needs to be documented, for now it's only visible in udev_rules_parse.c. + +o The rule keys support now more operations. This is documented in the + man page. It is possible to add values to list-keys like the SYMLINK + and RUN list with KEY+="value" and to clear the list by assigning KEY="". + Also "final"-assignments are supported by using KEY:="value", which will + prevent changing the key by any later rule. + +o kernel 2.6.12 has the "detached_state" attribute removed from + sysfs, which was used to recognize sysfs population. We switched that + to wait for the "bus" link, which is only available in kernels after 2.6.11. + Running this udev version on older kernels may cause a short delay for + some events. + +o To provide infrastructure for persistent device naming, the id programs: + scsi_id, vol_id (former udev_volume_id), and ata_id (new) are able now + to export the probed data in environment key format: + pim:~ # /sbin/ata_id --export /dev/hda + ID_MODEL=HTS726060M9AT00 + ID_SERIAL=MRH401M4G6UM9B + ID_REVISION=MH4OA6BA + + The following rules: + KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", IMPORT="/sbin/ata_id --export $tempnode" + KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_MODEL}_$env{ID_SERIAL}" + + Will create: + kay@pim:~> tree /dev/disk + /dev/disk + |-- by-id + | |-- HTS726060M9AT00_MRH401M4G6UM9B -> ../../hda + | `-- IBM-Memory_Key -> ../../sda + |-- by-label + | |-- swap -> ../../hda1 + | |-- date -> ../../sda1 + | `-- home -> ../../hda3 + `-- by-uuid + |-- 2E08712B0870F2E7 -> ../../hda3 + |-- 9352cfef-7687-47bc-a2a3-34cf136f72e1 -> ../../hda1 + |-- E845-7A89 -> ../../sda1 + `-- b2a61681-3812-4f13-a4ff-920d70604299 -> ../../hda2 + + The IMPORT= operation will import these keys in the environment and make + it available for later PROGRAM= and RUN= executed programs. The keys are + also stored in the udevdb and can be queried from there with one of the + next udev versions. + +o A few binaries are silently added to the repository, which can be used + to replay kernel events from initramfs instead of using coldplug. udevd + can be instructed now to queue-up events while the stored events from + initramfs are filled into the udevd-queue. This code is still under + development and there is no documentation now besides the code itself. + The additional binaries get compiled, but are not installed by default. + +o There is also a temporary fix for a performance problem where too many + events happen in parallel and every event needs to parse the rules. + udev can now read precompiled rules stored on disk. This is likely to be + replaced by a more elegant solution in a future udev version. + +udev 058 +======== +With kernel version 2.6.12, the sysfs file "detached_state" was removed. +Fix for libsysfs not to expect this file was added. + +udev 057 +======== +All rules are applied now, but only the first matching rule with a NAME-key +will be applied. All later rules with NAME-key are completely ignored. This +way system supplied symlinks or permissions gets applied to user-defined +naming rules. + +Note: +Please check your rules setup, if you may need to add OPTIONS="last_rule" +to some rules, to keep the old behavior. + +The rules are read on "remove"-events too. That makes is possible to match +with keys that are available on remove (KERNEL, SUBSYSTEM, ID, ENV, ...) to +instruct udev to ignore an event (OPTIONS="ignore_device"). +The new ACTION-key may be used to let a rule act only at a "remove"-event. + +The new RUN-key supports rule-based execution of programs after device-node +handling. This is meant as a general replacement for the dev.d/-directories +to give fine grained control over the execution of programs. + +The %s{}-sysfs format char replacement values are searched at any of the +devices in the device chain now, not only at the class-device. + +We support log priority levels now. The value udev_log in udev.conf is used +to determine what is printed to syslog. This makes it possible to +run a version with compiled-in debug messages in a production environment +which is sometimes needed to find a bug. +It is still possible to supress the inclusion of _any_ syslog usage with +USE_LOG=false to create the smallest possible binaries if needed. +The configured udev_log value can be overridden with the environment variable +UDEV_LOG. + +udev 056 +======== +Possible use of a system-wide klibc: + make USE_KLIBC=true KLCC=/usr/bin/klcc all +will link against an external klibc and our own version will be ignored. + +udev 055 +======== +We support an unlimited count of symlinks now. + +If USE_STATIC=true is passed to a glibc build, we link statically and use +a built-in userdb parser to resolve user and group names. + +The PLACE= key is gone. It can be replaced by an ID= for a long time, because +we walk up the chain of physical devices to find a match. + +The KEY="<value>" format supports '=', '==', '!=,' , '+=' now. This makes it +easy to skip certain attribute matches without composing rules with weird +character class negations like: + KERNEL="[!s][!c][!d]*" +this can now be replaced with: + KERNEL!="scd*" +The current simple '=' is still supported, and should work as it does today, +but existing rules should be converted if possible, to be better readable. + +We have new ENV{}== key now, to match against a maximum of 5 environment +variables. + +udevstart is its own binary again, because we don't need co carry this araound +with every forked event. |