From 1a72d06f7be696cf6f6753fdc01c0ff8171240ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:45:48 +0100 Subject: 082 release --- RELEASE-NOTES | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) (limited to 'RELEASE-NOTES') diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 68f7b88067..d04dcd83be 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -1,3 +1,38 @@ +udev 082 +======== +The udev man page has moced to udev(7) as it doesnot describe a command +anymore. The programs udev, udevstart and udevsend are no longer installed +by default and must be copied manually, if they should be installed or +included in a package. + +Fix a bug where "ignore_device" could run earlier collected RUN keys before +the ignore rule was applied. + +More preparation for future sysfs changes. usb_id and scsi_id no longer +depend on a magic order of devices in the /devices chain. Specific devices +should be requested by their subsytem. + +This will always find the scsi parent device without depending on a specific +path position: + dev = sysfs_device_get(devpath); + dev_usb = sysfs_device_get_parent_with_subsystem(dev, "scsi"); + +The "device" link in the current sysfs layout will be automatically +_resolved_ as a parent and in the new sysfs layout it will just _be_ the +parent in the devpath. If a device is requested by it's symlink, like all +class devices in the new sysfs layout will look like, it gets automatically +resolved and substituted with the real devpath and not the symlink path. + +Note: +A similar logic must be applied to _all_ sysfs users, including +scripts, that search along parent devices in sysfs. The explicit use of +the "device" link must be avoided. With the future sysfs layout all +DEVPATH's will start with /devices/ and have a "subsystem" symlink poiting +back to the "class" or the "bus". The layout of the parent devices in +/devices is not necessarily expected to be stable across kernel releases and +searching for parents by their subsystem should make sysfs users tolerant +for changed parent chains. + udev 081 ======== Prepare udev to work with the experimental kernel patch, that moves -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf