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@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ udev 143 Bugfixes. Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces -pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer -cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, a few -worker processes stay around for future events, all others get cleaned up. +the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because +cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon. +After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for +future events, all others get cleaned up. To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now. -Also inotify support is required now to run udev. +Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev. The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be @@ -17,6 +18,11 @@ accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv. Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on, incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version. +To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will +build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy +is available here: + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ + udev 142 ======== Bugfixes. |