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Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 33 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,13 +1,38 @@ -These things need to be done, or would be nice to have: - - o Log the relationship of the kernel name and the persistent disk name +These things would be nice to have: + o log the relationship of the kernel name and the persistent disk name to syslog, so any error logged from the kernel can be associated with - any of the links at that time. + any of the links at that time + +These things will change in future udev versions: + o remove /sys prefix from symlinks in /dev/.udev/{queue,failed} + (broken tools search /dev for files and get lost following to /sys + and stat() sysfs files million times) + + o make DRIVER== to match only the event device + (DRIVERS must be used, we currently translate it to DRIVERS and print + an error if DRIVER is used) + + o switch to fnmatch() instead of our own implementation + + o warn if PHYSDEV* keys are used in ENV keys + (they are deprecated and will be removed from a future kernel) + + o warn if "/device/" is used in a ATTR, ATTRS, $sysfs key + (the device link must not be used in rules or tools, udev resolves + the link and makes the devices available as parents, which can + be matched with the normal keys) + + o warn if BUS, ID, SYSFS are used as keys + (they are SUBSYSTEMS, KERNELS, ATTRS now) These things are deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future udev version: + o remove old udevdb dump 'udevinfo -d' + (-e exports everything) o remove udevstart (we rely on the kernel "uevent" triggers of kernel 2.6.15 and no longer want to guess event properties from sysfs like udevstart is doing it) + o remove extra for /etc/dev.d/ /etc/hotplug.d/ + (that inefficient stuff should finally go away) |