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Summary of changes from v030 to v031
============================================

<arun:codemovers.org>:
  o udev - read long lines from config files overflow fix

<ballarin.marc:gmx.de>:
  o Update the FAQ with info about hardlink security

<david:fubar.dk>:
  o compatibility symlinks for udev

David Weinehall:
  o Minor POSIX-fixes for udev

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add symlink for video rule
  o add a "first" list to udevstart and make it contain the class/mem/ devices
  o fix compiler warning in udevtest.c
  o Fix old-style pty breakage in rules file for tty device
  o add rules for i386 cpu devices
  o add permission for legotower usb devices
  o 030 release TAG: v030

Kay Sievers:
  o Fix naming ethernet devices in udevstart
  o update udev_volume_id
  o let /sbin/hotplug execute udev earlier
  o pass SEQNUM trough udevd
  o fix manpages based on esr's spambot

Martin Schlemmer:
  o add microcode rule to permissions.gentoo file

Michael Buesch:
  o Try to provide a bit of security for hardlinks to /dev entries

Olaf Hering:
  o udevsend depends on udev_lib.o

Tom Rini:
  o fix UDEV_NO_SLEEP
  o clean up start_udev a bit
  o Make udev/udevstart be one binary
  o Add 'asmlinkage' to udev-030


Summary of changes from v029 to v030
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix stupid off-by-one bug that caused udevstart to die on x86-64 boxes


Summary of changes from v028 to v029
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add permission rule for jogdial device
  o fix dumb bug I added to udevstart
  o make a "last list" of devices for udevstart to operate on last
  o fix permission problem with input event and ts nodes for gentoo
  o change default perms of misc/rtc to be readable by anyone

Olaf Hering:
  o allow NAME_SIZE > SYSFS_PATH_MAX


Summary of changes from v027 to v028
============================================

<atul.sabharwal:intel.com>:
  o Patch for chassis_id exras module

Daniel Drake:
  o Writing udev rules doc update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o clean up block whitelist search logic a bit
  o reverse order of scanning of udevstart to look at class before block

Kay Sievers:
  o update udev_volume_id

Leann Ogasawara:
  o udevstart performance increase

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.5


Summary of changes from v026 to v027
============================================

<fork0:users.sf.net>:
  o fix handle leak in udev_lib.c

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o tweak the gentoo default permission rules as they are wrong for tty and misc devices


Summary of changes from v025 to v026
============================================

Arnd Bergmann:
  o udev rpm fix

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add test for ! in partition name
  o 025_bk mark
  o Update to version 117 of klibc (from version 108)
  o add volume_id ignore rule for bk
  o add volume_id support to the udev.spec file
  o remove dbus and selinux stuff from the udev.spec file
  o delete udev_selinux as it doesn't work properly and is the wrong way to do it
  o Deleted the udev_dbus extra as it didn't really work properly and HAL has a real solution now
  o add udev.permissions.slackware file
  o udevstart: close open directories

Kay Sievers:
  o fix udevd zombies
  o catchup with recent klibc
  o Re: udevsend fallback
  o udev_volume_id update
  o udev callout for reading filesystem labels
  o udev callout for reading filesystem labels
  o udev default config layout changes

Leann Ogasawara:
  o evaluate getenv() return value for udev_config.c

Summary of changes from v024 to v025
============================================

<md:linux.it>:
  o devfs.sh-ide-floppy

<sjoerd:spring.luon.net>:
  o DEVNODE -> DEVNAME transition fixes

Daniel Drake:
  o Update writing udev rules docs

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o make dev.d call each directory in the directory chain of the device name, instead of just the whole name
  o add devd_test script
  o add more permissions based on SuSE's recommendations
  o added rules for tun and raw devices
  o add udev conf.d file
  o Switch the default config to point to a directory for the rules and permission files
  o update the Red Hat .dev files to work on other distros
  o add dbus.dev, pam_console.dev and selinux.dev files for /etc/dev.d/default/ usage
  o add hints for red hat users from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
  o add scripts to run gcov for udev from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
  o change permissions on udevd test scripts
  o Fix build process for users who have LC_ALL set to a non-english language
  o Added expanded tests to the test framework from Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>
  o added execelent "writing udev rules" document from Daniel Drake <dan@reactivated.net>
  o added rule to put USB printers in their proper places
  o added rules for CAPI devices
  o added a dev.d alsa script to help people out
  o v024 release TAG: v024

Kay Sievers:
  o fix test regressions
  o udev_selinux changes
  o udevd test script
  o udev_dbus changes
  o fix devpath for netdev

Leann Ogasawara:
  o gcov for udev


Summary of changes from v023 to v024
============================================

<atul.sabharwal:intel.com>:
  o Add README for chassis_id
  o Add chassis_id program to extras directory

<chris_friesen:sympatico.ca>:
  o udevd race conditions and performance,  assorted cleanups

<hare:suse.de>:
  o fix SEGV in libsysfs/dlist.c

<maryedie:osdl.org>:
  o add OSDL documentation for persistent naming

<md:linux.it>:
  o small ide-devfs.sh fix

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o remove compiler warning from udevd.c
  o only generate udev.8 on the fly, not all other man pages
  o update bk ignore list some more
  o update bk ignore list
  o switch to generate the man pages during the normal build, not during the install
  o convert udev.8.in to use @udevdir@ macro for make install
  o first step of making man pages dynamically generated
  o add install and uninstall the etc/dev.d/net/hotplug.dev file to the Makefile
  o tweak net_test a bit
  o fix some segfaults when running udevtest for network devices
  o make a net_test test script using udevtest
  o handle the subsytem if provided in udevtest
  o add hotplug.dev script to handle renamed network devices
  o add a bunch of network class devices to the test sysfs tree
  o add udevruler to the bk ignore list
  o update RFC-dev.d docs due to DEVNODE to DEVNAME change
  o clean up chassis_id coding style
  o clean up the OSDL document formatting a bit
  o add netlink rules to devfs and gentoo rules files
  o added USB device rules to rules files
  o clean up the gentoo rules file a bit more, adding dri rules
  o fix up udev.rules to handle oss rules better
  o 023_bk mark
  o fix udev.spec file for where udevtest should be placed

Kay Sievers:
  o tweak node unlink handling
  o switch udevd's msg_dump() to #define
  o handle netdev in udevruler
  o man page cleanup
  o put config info in db for netdev
  o increase udevd event timeout
  o udevstart fix
  o put netdev handling and dev.d/ in manpages
  o DEVPATH for netdev
  o netdev - udevdb+dev.d changes
  o udevd race conditions and performance,  assorted cleanups - take 2
  o udevinfo patch
  o dev_d.c file sorting and cleanup
  o apply all_partitions rule to main block device only


Summary of changes from v022 to v023
============================================

Kay Sievers:
  o hmm, handle net devices with udev?
  o correct apply_format() for symlink only rules
  o don't init namedev on remove
  o first stupid try for a rule compose gui
  o replace fgets() with mmap() and introduce udev_lib.[hc]
  o make udevtest a real program :)

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o udevinfo patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o create the /etc/dev.d/ directories in 'make install'
  o actually have udev run files ending in .dev in the /etc/dev.d/ directory as documented
  o added RFC-dev.d document detailing how /etc/dev.d/ works
  o fixed up udev.spec to handle selinux stuff properly now
  o remove USE_DBUS and USE_SELINUX flags from the README as they are no longer present
  o remove selinux stuff from the main Makefile
  o move udev_selinux into extras/selinux
  o fix dbus build in the udev.spec file
  o remove dbus stuff from main Makefile
  o move udev_dbus to extras/dbus
  o udev_dbus can now compile properly, but linnking is another story
  o remove udev_dbus.h from Makefile
  o first cut at standalone udev_selinux program
  o remove selinux support from udev core as it's no longer needed
  o first cut at standalone udev_dbus program
  o add get_devnode() helper to udev_lib for udev_dbus program
  o remove dbus code from core udev code as it's no longer needed to be there
  o add /etc/dev.d/ support for udev add and remove events
  o fix build error in namedev.c caused by previous patch
  o 022_bk tag
  o fix 'make spotless' to really do that in klibc
  o add a question/answer about automounting usb devices to the FAQ
  o mark scsi-devfs.sh as executable
  o Increase the name size as requested by Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
  o fix udevtest to build properly after the big udev_lib change
  o 022 release TAG: v022

Olaf Hering:
  o uninitialized variable for mknod and friend

Richard Gooch:
  o SCSI logical and physical names for udev

Theodore Y. T'so:
  o Trivial man page typo fixes to udev


Summary of changes from v021 to v022
============================================

<ananth:in.ibm.com>:
  o more Libsysfs updates
  o Libsysfs updates

<async:cc.gatech.edu>:
  o fix HOWTO-udev_for_dev for udevdir

Kay Sievers:
  o udev-test.pl cleanup
  o add dev node test to udev-test.pl
  o add permission tests
  o "symlink only" test
  o callout part selector tweak
  o cleanup callout fork
  o allow to specify node permissions in the rule
  o man page beauty
  o put symlink only rules to the man page
  o rename strn*() macros to strmax
  o conditional remove of trailing sysfs whitespace
  o clarify udevinfo text
  o better fix for NAME="foo-%c{N}" gets a truncated name
  o overall trivial trivial cleanup
  o fix NAME="foo-%c{N}" gets a truncated name
  o cleanup mult field string handling

<ken:cgi101.com>:
  o fix a type in docs/libsysfs.txt
  o Added line to udev.permissions.redhat
  o Include more examples in the docs area for gentoo and redhat

<md:linux.it>:
  o udevstart fixes

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add big major tests to udev-test.pl
  o add a test for a minor over 255
  o udev-test.pl: print out major:minor and perm test "ok" if is ok
  o make perm and major:minor test errors be reported properly
  o remove extra ; in namedev_parse.c
  o Added multipath-tools 0.1.1 release
  o deleted current extras/multipath directory
  o 021_bk mark
  o fix the build for older versions of gcc
  o 021 release TAG: v021

Hanna V. Linder:
  o Small fix to remove extra "will" in man page

Olaf Hering:
  o make spotless
  o udev* segfaults with new klibc

Patrick Mansfield:
  o add tests for NAME="foo-%c{N}"

Summary of changes from v020 to v021
============================================

Kay Sievers:
  o install udevinfo in /usr/bin
  o blacklist pcmcia_socket

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix udev.spec to find udevinfo now that it has moved to /usr/bin
  o Fix another problem with Makefile installing initscript
  o fix the Makefile to install the init script into the proper directory
  o make spec file turn off selinux support by default


Summary of changes from v019 to v020
============================================

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o multipath update

Kay Sievers:
  o man page udevstart
  o cleanup udevstart
  o bugfix for local user
  o unlink bugfix
  o TODO update
  o clarify udevinfo device walk
  o udevinfo symlink reverse query
  o fix stroul endptr use
  o add $local user spport for permissions
  o udev - man page update
  o udev - fix debug info for multiple rule file config
  o udev - kill udevd on install
  o udev - activate formt length attribute
  o udev - safer sprintf() use

<md:linux.it>:
  o no error on enoent
  o escape dashes in man pages
  o remove usage of expr in ide-devfs.sh

<rml:ximian.com>:
  o automatically install correct initscript
  o update documetation for $local

Andrey Borzenkov:
  o Add symlink only rules support

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update the TODO list as we already have a devfs config file
  o make start_udev use udevstart binary
  o install udevstart
  o Remove Debian permission files as the Debian maintainer doesn't seem to want to share :(
  o update the Gentoo rules files
  o Add Red Hat rules and permissions files
  o add udevstart to the ignore list
  o add udevstart program based on a old patch from Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
  o unlink the file before we try to create it
  o Merge greg@bucket:/home/greg/src/udev into kroah.com:/home/greg/src/udev


Summary of changes from v018 to v019
============================================

Kay Sievers:
  o TODO update
  o udev - correct relative symlink
  o udev - safer string handling - part four
  o udev - safer string handling - part three
  o udev - safer string handling - part two
  o udev - man page update
  o udev - safer string handling all over the place
  o manpage update
  o udev - allow all files in a directory as the config
  o udev - simple klibc textual uid/gid handling

Andrey Borzenkov:
  o do not remove real .udev.tdb during RPM build

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add new TODO item about local user permissions
  o Add initial SELinux support for udev
  o fix build for very old versions of make
  o remove limit of the number of args passed to PROGRAM
  o force udev to include the internal version of libsysfs and never the external one
  o fix up libsysfs header file usage to fix bug reports from users that have sysfsutils installed already
  o remove udevtest on 'make clean'
  o remove udevd priority TODO item, as it's not needed at all

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.4


Summary of changes from v017 to v018
============================================

<ext.devoteam.varoqui:sncf.fr>:
  o [PATCH] symlink dm-[0-9]* rule
  o update extras/multipath

<john-hotplug:fjellstad.org>:
  o init.d debian patch

Kay Sievers:
  o udev - TODO update
  o udev - add %s{filename} to man page
  o udev - udevd/udevsend man page
  o udev - switch callout part selector to {attribute}
  o udev - switch SYSFS_file to SYSFS{file}
  o udev - create all partitions of blockdevice
  o allow SYSFS{file}
  o Adding '%s' format specifier to NAME and SYMLINK

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o added some scsi_id files to the bk ignore file
  o added scsi_id and some more documentation to the udev.spec file
  o update udev.rules.gentoo with new config file format
  o Update the Gentoo udev.rules and udev.permissions files
  o Create a udev.rules.examples file to hold odd udev.rules
  o add udevd priority issue to the TODO list
  o more HOWTO cleanups
  o add HOWTO detailing how to use udev to manage /dev
  o mv libsysfs/libsysfs.h to libsysfs/sysfs/libsysfs.h to make it easier to use
  o add start_udev init script
  o add support for UDEV_NO_SLEEP env variable so Gentoo people will be happy
  o start up udevd ourselves in the init script to give it some good priorities
  o update the red hat init script to handle nodes that are not present
  o add a "old style" SYSFS_attribute test to udev-test.pl
  o Have udevsend report more info in debug mode
  o Have udevd report it's version in debug mode
  o fix up bug created for udevtest in previous partition creation patch
  o update the udev.spec to add udevtest and make some more Red Hat suggested changes
  o add ability to install udevtest to Makefile
  o 017_bk mark
  o Add another test to udev-test.pl and fix a bug when only running 1 test
  o Fix bug where we did not use the "converted" kernel name if we had no rule
  o v017 release TAG: v017

Patrick Mansfield:
  o udev use new libsysfs header file location
  o udev add some ID tests


Summary of changes from v016 to v017
============================================

<azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
  o make logging a config option

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o more udev-016/extras/multipath
  o more udev-016/extras/multipath
  o update extras/multipath

Kay Sievers:
  o udev - keep private data out of the database?
  o better credential patch
  o udevd - client access authorization
  o compile udevd with klibc
  o udev - fix "ignore method"
  o udev - fix cdrom symlink rule
  o convert udevsend/udevd to DGRAM and single-threaded
  o udevd - kill the lockfile
  o udevd - fix socket path length
  o udevd - switch socket path to abstract namespace
  o udevd - allow to bypass sequence number
  o include used function

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add udev_log to the documentation
  o fix offsetof() define in klibc
  o add some .spec file changes from Red Hat
  o update the init.d udev script based on a patch from Red Hat
  o remove the .udev.tdb when installing or uninstalling to be safe
  o remove the database at startup
  o fix bug in permission handling
  o update klibc to version .107
  o update the bitkeeper ignore file list
  o add udevtest program to build
  o fix problem where usb devices can be either the main device or the interface
  o more logging.h cleanups to be a bit more flexible
  o stop using mode_t as different libcs define it in different ways :(
  o remove some more KLIBC fixups that are no longer needed
  o let udev-test.pl run an individual test if you ask it to
  o Handle the '!' character that some block devices have
  o add a block device with a ! in the name, and a test for this
  o fix up 'make release' to use bk to build the export tree
  o fix log option code so that it actually works for all udev programs
  o finish syncing up with klibc
  o sync with latest version of klibc (0.107)
  o fix up Makefile dependancies for udev_version.h

Patrick Mansfield:
  o udev add wild card compare for ID
  o udev kill extra bus_id compares in match_id


Summary of changes from v015 to v016
============================================

<elkropac:students.zcu.cz>:
  o get_dev_number() in extras/ide-devfs.sh

<rrm3:rrm3.org>:
  o FAQ udev.rules.devfs

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add udevd and udevsend to the spec file
  o make /etc/hotplug.d/default/udev.hotplug symlink point to udevsend now
  o add KERNEL_DIR option so that the distros will be happy
  o make udevsend binary even smaller
  o udevsend now almost compiles with klibc, struct sockaddr_un is only problem now
  o fix up logging code so that it can be built without it being enabled
  o rework the logging code so that each program logs with the proper name in the syslog
  o remove logging.c as it's no longer needed
  o kill the last examples that contained the %D option
  o remove a __KLIBC__ tests in libsysfs, as klibc now supports getpagesize()
  o udevd - remove stupid locking error I wrote
  o update to klibc version 0.101, fixing the stdin bug
  o fix Makefile typo for USE_LSB install
  o allow dbus code to actually build again

Kay Sievers:
  o let udevsend build with klibc
  o udevd - config cleanup
  o udevd - cleanup and better timeout handling
  o fix possible buffer overflow
  o udevd - next round of fixes
  o udevinfo - missing options for man page
  o udev - trivial style cleanup


Summary of changes from v014 to v015
============================================

<mbuesch:freenet.de>:
  o LFS init script update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update klibc to version 0.98
  o clean up udevinfo on 'make clean'
  o add udevinfo man page to spec file
  o remove command line documentation from udev man page
  o create initial version of udevinfo man page
  o added URL to spec file
  o add udevinfo to udev.spec file
  o add udevinfo to install target of Makefile
  o rip out command line code from udev, now that we have udevinfo
  o udevinfo doesn't need to declare main_envp
  o move get_pair to udev_config.c because udevinfo doesn't need all of namedev.o
  o more makefile cleanups
  o move udevinfo into the main build and clean up the main Makefile a bit
  o clean up compiler warnings if building using klibc
  o make udevd only have one instance running at a time
  o new testd.block script for debugging
  o udevsnd : clean up message creation logic a bit
  o make bk ignore udevd and udevsend binaries
  o whitespace cleanups
  o remove TODO item about BUS value, as it is now done
  o add support for figuring out which device on the sysfs "chain" the rule applies to

Kay Sievers:
  o udevinfo - now a real program :)
  o udevd - cleanup and better timeout handling
  o udev - next round of udev event order daemon
  o fix udevd exec
  o udev - udevinfo with device chain walk
  o spilt udev into pieces


Summary of changes from v013 to v014
============================================

<ananthmg:rediffmail.com>:
  o libsysfs update for refresh + namedev.c changes

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o udev-013/extras/multipath update

<flamingice:sourmilk.net>:
  o minor patch for devfs rules

Kay Sievers:
  o udev - program to query all device attributes to build a rule
  o set default owner/group in db - update
  o udev - reverse user query options
  o udev - kill %D from udev-test.pl
  o add udev logging to info log
  o udev - mention format string escape char in man page

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o misc code cleanups
  o fixup logging.h to handle different logging options properly
  o clean up the logging patch a bit to make the option more like the other options
  o remove the %D modifier as it is not longer needed
  o remove unneeded keyboard rule
  o add usb_host and pci_bus to the class blacklist
  o added input device rules to udev.rules and udev.rules.devfs
  o 013_bk mark
  o v013 release TAG: v013

Hanna V. Linder:
  o set default owner/group in db
  o small cut n paste error fix

Patrick Mansfield:
  o update udev scsi_id to scsi_id 0.3


Summary of changes from v012 to v013
============================================

<eike-hotplug:sf-tec.de>:
  o LSB init script and other stuff

<elkropac:students.zcu.cz>:
  o fix udev directory for Debian init script

<tiggi:infa.abo.fi>:
  o udev 012 old gcc fixup

Christophe Saout:
  o add IGNORE rule type
  o small cleanup

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update TODO with some new, small items
  o Cset exclude: greg@kroah.com|ChangeSet|20040113010256|48515
  o update the README in a few places
  o fix -d typo in the manpage update
  o Fix stupid gcc "optimization" of 1 character printk() calls.... Ick
  o oops, forgot to fix up the PROGRAM result from ID to RESULT in the config files
  o Add alsa device rules and a few other devfs rules
  o fix a few stale comments in namedev.c
  o convert the default rules files to the new format
  o convert the test shell scripts to the config file format
  o add bus test for usb-serial bus
  o Add some helpful messages if the user uses the older config file format
  o added dri rule to the default config file
  o added init.d udev script for debian
  o add a script that tests the IGNORE rule
  o add silly script that names cdrom drives based on the cd in them
  o add cdrom rule for ide cdrom
  o replace list_for_each with list_for_each_entry, saving a few lines of code
  o add a blacklist of class devices we do not want to look at

Kay Sievers:
  o fix klibc with printf() and gcc
  o udev - small script optimization
  o udev - introduce format escape char
  o udev - more CALLOUT is PROGRAM now
  o udev - CALLOUT is PROGRAM now
  o update documentation for new config file format
  o more advanced user query options
  o udev - simple debug tweak
  o udev - drop all methods :)
  o udev - advanced user query options
  o udev - Makefile error
  o udev - make exec_callout() reusable
  o udev - exec status fix for klibc
  o fix Silly udev script


Summary of changes from v011 to v012
============================================

<azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
  o make symlink work properly if there is already a file in its place
  o Fix udev gcc-2.95.4 compat

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update

Kay Sievers:
  o mention user callable udev + options in man page
  o make udev user callable to query the database
  o depend on all .h files
  o cleanup namedev_parse debug text
  o extend exec_program[]
  o ide-devfs.sh update
  o fix for apply_format()
  o check for empty symlink string
  o 'ide' missing in bus_files[]
  o small trivial cleanup of latest changes

<mbuesch:freenet.de>:
  o introduce signal handler

<rml:ximian.com>:
  o udev spec file update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o minor grammer fixes for the udev_vs_devfs document
  o move the dbus config file to etc/dbus-1/system.d/
  o move the config files to etc/udev to clean up main directory a bit
  o add Gentoo versions of the rules and permissions files
  o if using glibc, link dynamically, as no one like 500Kb udev binaries
  o minor change to udev_vs_devfs document
  o added udev vs devfs supid document to the tree
  o move the signal handling registration to after we have initialized enough stuff
  o make ide-devfs.sh executable in the tree
  o udev.permissions.debian - forgot the dm nodes
  o update the udev.permissions.debian file with new entries
  o added udev.init script for the Linux From Scratch project



Summary of changes from v010 to v011
============================================

<mbuesch:freenet.de>:
  o proper cleanup on udevdb_init() failure

<mh:nadir.org>:
  o patch udev 009-010 rpm spec file

<svetljo:gmx.de>:
  o fix udev sed Makefile usage

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add documentation about the BUS key being optional for the LABEL rule
  o add tests for LABEL rule with a device that has no bus
  o Don't require the BUS value for the LABEL rule
  o If a LABEL rule has a BUS id, then we must check to see if the device is on a bus
  o add documentation about the BUS key being optional for the CALLOUT rule
  o If a CALLOUT rule has a BUS id, then we must check to see if the device is on a bus
  o Don't require the BUS value for the CALLOUT rule
  o add test for callout rule with a device that has no bus
  o 010_bk stamp
  o added different build options to the rpm udev.spec file
  o add pci to the bus_files list
  o check for empty line a bit better in the parser
  o more init script cleanups, the stop target now calls udev to cleanup instead of just removing the whole /udev directory
  o make udev init script run udev in the background to let startup go much faster
  o fix long delay for all devices in namedev


Summary of changes from v009 to v010
============================================

<ananth:in.ibm.com>:
  o change pgsize

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update
  o extras multipath update

Kay Sievers:
  o fix udev-test.pl
  o small cleanup udev-remove.c
  o experimental CALLOUT script for devfs ide node creation with cd, disc, part
  o add any valid device
  o introduce format char 'k' for kernel-name
  o trivial make fixes
  o don't overwrite old config on install
  o udev-remove.c cleanups
  o bug in udev-remove.c
  o trivial cleanup parser changes

<roman.kagan:itep.ru>:
  o fix comment and whitespace handling in config files

Adam Kropelin:
  o Allow build with empty EXTRAS

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o libsysfs 0.4.0 patch
  o fix scsi_id segfault with udev-009
  o add libsysfs docs

David T. Hollis:
  o mark config files as such in the rpm spec file

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix complier warning in namedev.c
  o add documentation for the new '%k' modifier (kernel name replacement)
  o add documentation about the multiple sysfs values that are now allowed for the LABEL rule
  o add tests for multi-file LABEL rules
  o add ability to have up to 5 SYSFS_ file/value pairs for the LABEL rule
  o Just live with a sleep(1) in namedev for now until libsysfs is fixed up
  o try to wait until the proper device file shows up in sysfs
  o remove unneeded TODO and FIXME entry
  o clean up the stand-alone tests to work properly on other people's machines
  o add tests to catch whitespace and comment config file parsing errors


Summary of changes from v008 to v009
============================================

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o more extras/multipath changes
  o and more extras/multipath updates
  o more extras/multipath updates
  o yet more extras/multipath
  o more extras/multipath updates
  o extras/multipath update

<david:fubar.dk>:
  o D-BUS patch for udev-008

<eike-hotplug:sf-tec.de>:
  o add init.d/udev to "make install"
  o add init.d/udev to the spec file

Kay Sievers:
  o don't rely on field order in namedev_parse
  o get part of callout return string
  o remove '\n' from end of callout return
  o man-page mention multiple symlinks
  o allow multiple symlinks
  o cleanup man & remove symlink comment
  o experimental (very simple) SYMLINK creation
  o man page beauty
  o pattern match for label method
  o a bug in linefeed removal

<rml:ximian.com>:
  o remove udev from runlevels on uninstall
  o install initscript in udev rpm

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o pre-libsysfs-0.4.0 patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o signal fixes due to klibc update
  o sync klibc with release 0.95
  o add mol permissions to the debian permissions file
  o update the FAQ with info about bad modprobe events from the devfs scheme
  o some cleanups due to the need for LABEL rules to use "SYSFS_" now
  o Add restart target to the etc/init.d/udev script
  o tweak the config file generation portion of the Makefile a bit
  o change devfs disk name rule from 'disk' to 'disc'
  o add vc support to udev.rules.devfs
  o added a devfs udev config file from Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
  o set default mode to 0600 to be safer
  o Makefile tweaks for the DBUS build
  o update the FAQ due to the latest devfs mess on lkml and also due to symlinks now working
  o document the different Makefile config options that we have
  o change USE_DBUS to DBUS in Makefile, and disable it by default as it's still to hard to build on all systems
  o fix formatting of udev_dbus.c to use tabs.  Also get it to build properly now
  o move all of the DBUS logic into one file and remove all of the #ifdef crud from the main code

Olaf Hering:
  o dump latest klibc into the udev build tree
  o use udevdir in udev.conf

Patrick Mansfield:
  o better allow builds of extras programs under udev
  o update udev extras/scsi_id to version 0.2


Summary of changes from v007 to v008
============================================

<azarah:nosferatu.za.org>:
  o more config file parsing robustness

<christophe.varoqui:free.fr>:
  o udev-007/extras/multipath update

Arnd Bergmann:
  o Build failure - missing linux/limits.h include?
  o Add format modifier for devfs like naming
  o klibc makefile fixes

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o another patch for path problem
  o quick fix for libsysfs bus
  o libsysfs changes for sysfsutils 0.3.0

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o fix up some duplicated function compiler warnings in libsysfs
  o fix some compiler warnings in the tdb code
  o Added Kay's name to the man page
  o update the wildcard documentation in the man page to show the new styles supported
  o fix permission handling logic
  o enable default_mode ability to actually build
  o add support for the default_mode variable, as it is documented
  o show permissions and groups in the label_test
  o remove some items off of the TODO list, as they are now done
  o fix up the tests to work without all of the environ variables
  o get rid of the majority of the debug environment variables
  o Update the man page to show the new config file, it's format, and how to use it
  o fix up the tests to support the rules file name change
  o add support for a main udev config file, udev.conf
  o turn debugging messages off by default
  o split out the namedev config parsing logic to namedev_parse.c
  o rename namedev's get_attr() to be main namedev_name_device() as that's what it really is
  o add devfs like tty rules as an example in the default config file
  o operate on the rules in the order they are in the config file (within the rule type) instead of operating on them backwards.
  o Cset exclude: dsteklof@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20031126173159|56255
  o add test for checking the BUS value
  o fix problem where we were not looking at the BUS value
  o add scsi and pci bus links in the test sysfs tree
  o add test and documentation for new %D devfs format modifier
  o changed the default location of the database to /udev/.udev.tdb to be LSB compliant
  o get rid of functions in klibc_fixups that are now in klibc
  o sync up with the 0.84 version of klibc
  o fix udev init.d script to handle all class devices in sysfs
  o fix the test.block and test.tty scripts due to their moveing.  Also add a test.all script
  o 007_bk version change to Makefile

Kay Sievers:
  o pattern matching for namedev
  o catch replace device by wildcard
  o udev.8 tweak numeric id text
  o udev-test.pl add subdir test
  o namedev.c strcat tweak
  o overall whitespace + debug text conditioning
  o udev-test.pl - tweaks

Martin Hicks:
  o Add -nodefaultlibs while compiling against klibc

Olaf Hering:
  o ARCH detection for ppc

Patrick Mansfield:
  o fix udev parallel builds with klibc


Summary of changes from v006 to v007
============================================

<md:linux.it>:
  o fix segfault in parsing bad udev.permissions file

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update default config file with a CALLOUT rule, and more documentation
  o updated the man page with the latest format specifier changes
  o added ability to put format specifiers in the CALLOUT program string
  o tweak udev-test.pl to report '0' errors if that's what happened
  o only build klibc_fixups.c if we are actually using klibc
  o add support for string group and string user names in udev.permissions
  o add getgrnam and getpwnam to klibc_fixups files
  o remove Makefile.klibc
  o add udev-test perl script from Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> which blows away my puny shell scripts
  o added debian's version of udev.permissions
  o change to 006_bk version

Kay Sievers:
  o format char for CALLOUT output
  o more namedev whitespace cleanups
  o support arguments in callout exec
  o namedev.c - change order of fields in CALLOUT
  o namedev.c whitespace + debug text cleanup
  o man page with udev.permissions wildcard

Olaf Hering:
  o static klibc udev does not link against crt0.o

Summary of changes from v005 to v006
============================================

<chris_friesen:sympatico.ca>:
  o faster test scripts

Arnd Bergmann:
  o more robust config file parsing in namedev.c
  o add bus id modifier

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o patch for libsysfs sysfs directory handling

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o add another line to udev.permissions in the proper format
  o tweak replace_test
  o fix permissions to work properly now
  o add real udev.permissions file to test directory
  o fix namedev.c to build with older version of gcc
  o add dumb test for all of the different modifiers
  o update the TODO list with more items that people can easily do
  o move the test.block and test.tty scripts to the test/ directory
  o add remove actions to the test scripts
  o turn DEBUG_PARSER off by default
  o add some documentation for the %b modifier to the default config file
  o fix make install rule for when the udev symlink is already there
  o change release target in makefile
  o change debug level on printf values for now
  o updated demo config file
  o add some documentation of the modifiers to the default config file
  o add demo config file
  o updated bk ignore list for klibc generated files
  o add printf option to label test to verify it works
  o fix up printf-like functionality due to previous changes
  o get the major/minor number before we name the device
  o add scsi_id "extra" program from Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
  o Add multipath "extra" program from Christophe Varoqui, <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
  o trailing whitespace cleanups
  o splig LABEL and NUMBER into separate functions
  o add TOPO regression test
  o move TOPOLOGY rule to it's own function
  o fix bug where NUMBER and TOPOLOGY would not work for partitions
  o clean up the way we find the sysdevice for a block device for namedev
  o updated label test script (tests for partitions now.)
  o split REPLACE and CALLOUT into separate functions
  o add debug line for REPLACE call
  o add replace test
  o add more sysfs test tree files
  o change UDEV_SYSFS_PATH environment variable due to libsysfs change
  o fix bug in klibc's isspace function
  o fix udev-add.c to build properly with older versions of gcc
  o add prototype for ftruncate to klibc
  o Remove a few items from the TODO list that are already done
  o version number to 005_bk
  o pull some klibc stuff into the make Makefile to try to stay in sync
  o klibc build fixes

Kay Sievers:
  o apply permissions.conf support for wildcard and default name
  o man page with included placeholder list
  o implement printf-like placeholder support for NAME
  o more manpage tweaks
  o add support for subdirs
  o add uid/gid to nodes

Olaf Hering:
  o DESTDIR for udev

Paul Mundt:
  o Fixup path for kernel includes when building with klibc

Robert Love:
  o udev init script


Summary of changes from v004 to v005
============================================

<kay:vrfy.org>:
  o namedev.c comments + debug patch
  o man page update

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o ignore the klibc/linux symlink
  o add klibc linux symlink info to the README
  o get 'make release' to work properly again
  o added README info for how to build using klibc
  o turn off debugging if we are building with klibc
  o turn off debugging in namedev
  o added vsyslog support to klibc
  o add ftruncate to klibc
  o klibc specific tweaks
  o libsysfs does not need mntent.h in it's header file
  o udev build tweaks to tdb's spinlock code
  o klibc makefile changes
  o build tdb and libsysfs from the same makefile as udev
  o udev-add build cleanups for other libc versions
  o tweak tdb to build within udev better
  o make libsysfs spit debug messages to the same place as the rest of udev
  o make libsysfs build cleanly
  o updated bk ignore list
  o added klibc version 0.82 (cvs tree) to the udev tree
  o makefile fix for now
  o Merge greg@bucket:/home/greg/src/udev into kroah.com:/home/greg/src/udev
  o hm, makefile bug with so many files...  will fix later
  o regression tests starting to be added
  o fix LABEL bug for device files (not class files.)
  o more warning flags to the build
  o got rid of struct device_attr
  o rename namedev.permissions and namedev.config to udev.permissions and udev.config
  o fix dbg line in namedev.c
  o more overrides of config info with env variables if in test mode
  o Fix bug causing udev to sleep forever waiting for dev file to show up
  o change version to 004_bk
  o make config files, sysfs root, and udev root configurable from config variables
  o 004 changelog entrys TAG: v004

Robert Love:
  o udev: sleep_for_dev() bits
  o udev: another canidate for static


Summary of changes from v003 to v004
============================================

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o new version of libsysfs patch

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o 004 release
  o major database cleanups
  o Changed test.block and test.tty to take ACTION from the command line
  o don't sleep if 'dev' file is already present on device add
  o fix comment about how the "dev" file is made up
  o more database work.  Now we only store the info we really need right now
  o add BUS= bug to TODO list so it will not get forgotten
  o spec file changes
  o test.block changes
  o ok, rpm likes the "_" character instead of "-" better
  o change the version to 003-bk to keep things sane with people using the bk tree
  o got "remove of named devices" working
  o fix segfaults when dealing with partitions
  o update changelog for 003 release TAG: v003

Kay Sievers:
  o man file update
  o man page update

Robert Love:
  o udev: mode should be mode_t
  o udev: trivial trivialities
  o udev: cool test scripts again
  o udev spec file symlink support
  o udev: cool test scripts
  o udev spec file bits


Summary of changes from v0.2 to v003
============================================

Daniel E. F. Stekloff:
  o udevdb patch
  o udevdb prototype

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o update the spec file for the new version and install process
  o fix makefile release rule to not drop tdb.h file
  o Add FAQ for udev
  o removed AUTHORS and INSTALL files as they were pretty pointless
  o copyright updates
  o Add AUTHORS and INSTALL files
  o TODO updates
  o Updatd the README
  o updated the TODO list
  o add udev man page (basically just a place holder for now.)
  o added uninstall support
  o added install target for makefile so people don't have to do it by hand anymore
  o add version to debug log on startup
  o tell the user what mknod() we are trying to do
  o add dbg_parse() to cut down on parse file debugging statements
  o put config files and database in /etc/udev by default
  o add ols 2003 udev paper to docs/
  o clean up some debugging stuff in namedev.c
  o do not build the tdb binary programs, only the objects
  o merge tdb into the build process
  o Added tdb code from latest cvs version in the samba tree
  o added my name to the .spec file
  o minor cleanups
  o cleanup the mknod code a bit
  o remove mknod callout
  o handle new major:minor format of dev files that showed up in 2.6.0-test2-bk3 or so
  o oops, everything was getting created as 000 mode, try to fix this up, but fail...
  o more test stuff

Olaf Hering:
  o print udev pid

Patrick Mansfield:
  o add callout config type to udev

Paul Mundt:
  o Fix TDB cross compilation
  o udev spec file
  o udev/libsysfs cross compile fixes


Summary of changes from v0.1 to v0.2
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o more test stuff
  o removed unneeded stuff from udev.h
  o added 0.2 change log info
  o start working on label support, and fix some segfaults for block devices
  o test config file changes
  o add NUMBER support (basically same logic as TOPOLOGY, perhaps we should
    merge this...)
  o added topology support
  o got REPLACE to work properly
  o make struct config_device contain a struct device_attr instead of
    duplicating the mess
  o block test
  o split the tests up into different files
  o split udev main logic into udev-add and udev-remove
  o Clean up the namedev interface a bit, making the code smaller
  o bk: update ignore list
  o update the tests to handle block devices too
  o add initial libsysfs support
  o added libsysfs to the build
  o added libsysfs code from sysutils-0.1.1-071803 release
  o namedev config files are fully parsed
  o more permission tests
  o make log_message spit out warnings so I don't have to spend forever
    chasing down stupid bugs that aren't there...
  o added klibc makefile
  o Initial namedev parsing of config files
  o sleep for 2 seconds to give the kernel a chance to actually create the
    files we need
  o pick a better default UDEV_ROOT
  o fix up the test to actually work
  o added more documentation in README and TODO files


Summary of changes up to v0.1
============================================

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o added more documentation in README and TODO files
  o updated the documentation
  o cleaned up the makefile a bit
  o remove now works!
  o restructure code to be able to actually get remove_node() to work
  o Creating nodes actually works
  o added stupid test script for debugging
  o added initial documentation and gpl license
  o enabled debugging
  o updated ignore list
  o added initial files
  o fixed up config
  o Initial repository create
  o BitKeeper file /home/greg/src/udev/udev/ChangeSet