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-udev 175
+udev 176
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The 'devtmpfs' filesystem is required now, udev will not create or delete
device nodes anymore, it only adjusts permissions and ownership of device
nodes and maintains additional symlinks.
-A writable /run directory (tmpfs) is required now for a fully functional
-udev.
+A writable /run directory (ususally tmpfs) is required now for a fully
+functional udev, there is no longer a fallback to /dev/.udev.
The default 'configure' install locations have changed. Packages for systems
with the historic / vs. /usr split need to be adapted, otherwise udev will
-be installed in /usr and not work properly. Example configuration options are
-in INSTALL.
+be installed in /usr and not work properly. Example configuration options
+to install things the traditional way are in INSTALL.
The default install location of the 'udevadm' tool moved from 'sbin'
-to /usr/bin. Some tools expect udevadm in 'sbin'. A symlink to udevadm
-needs to be manually created if needed.
+to /usr/bin. Some tools expect udevadm in 'sbin', a symlink to udevadm
+needs to be manually created if needed, or --bindir=/sbin be specified.
-The expected value of '--libexecdir' has changed and must no longer contain
+The expected value of '--libexecdir=' has changed and must no longer contain
the 'udev' directory.
Kernel modules are now loaded directly by linking udev to 'libkmod'. The
@@ -31,13 +31,15 @@ is no longer used.
All built-in tools can be listed and tested with 'udevadm test-builtin'.
The 'udevadm control --reload-rules' option has been renamed to '--reload'.
-It reloads the kernel module configuration.
+It now also reloads the kernel module configuration.
-The systemd socket files use PassCredentials=yes, which requires systemd
-version 38.
+The systemd socket files use PassCredentials=yes, which is available in
+systemd version 38.
The udev build system only creates a .xz tarball now.
+All tabs in the source code used for indentation are replaced by spaces now. :)
+
udev 175
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Bugfixes.