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@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@ udev 142 ======== Bugfixes. +The udev daemon will now create /dev/null, /dev/console, /dev/kmsg at +startup, if they don't exist already. + +Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages +to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be +installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters +match on the <subsytem>:<devtype> properties of the device. + This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current +users over to directly use libudev, or for higher-level services use the +specialized D-Bus interface of a DeviceKit service. + Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might +change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported interface +are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen soon. + A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at startup. |