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| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 67b4a6caa1..9b7fa31330 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,19 +1,22 @@ 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 ignored. This way system -supplied symlinks or permissions gets applied to user-defined naming rules. +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 a event (OPTIONS="ignore_device"). -The new ACTION-key may be used to match a rule only at a "remove"-event. +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 can replace the dev.d/-rules to make them more efficient. +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. @@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ UDEV_LOG. udev 056 ======== Possible use of a system-wide klibc: - make USE_KLIB=true KLCC=/usr/bin/klcc all + make USE_KLIBC=true KLCC=/usr/bin/klcc all will link against an external klibc and our own version will be ignored. udev 055 |