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In other words: the admin has +always the last say. + +USB auto-suspend is now enabled by default for some built-in USB HID +devices. + +/dev/disk/by-path/ links are no longer created for ATA devices behind +an 'ATA transport class', the logic to extract predictable numbers does +not exist in the kernel at this moment. + +/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-* compatibility links are no longer created for +ATA devices, they have their own ata-* prefix. + +The s390 rule to set mode == 0666 for /dev/z90crypt is is removed from +the udev tree and will be part of s390utils (or alternatively could be +done by the kernel driver itself). + +The udev-acl tool is no longer provided, it will be part of a future +ConsoleKit release. On systemd systems, advanced ConsoleKit and udev-acl +functionality are provided by systemd. + +udev 181 +======== +Require kmod version 5. + +Provide /dev/cdrom symlink for /dev/sr0. + +udev 180 +======== +Fix for ID_PART_ENTRY_* property names, added by the blkid built-in. The +fix is needed for udisk2 to operate properly. + +Fix for skipped rule execution when the kernel has removed the device +node in /dev again, before the event was even started. The fix is needed +to run device-mapper/LVM events properly. + +Fix for the man page installation, which was skipped when xsltproc was not +installed. + +udev 179 +======== +Bugfix for $name resolution, which broke at least some keymap handling. + +udev 178 +======== +Bugfix for the firmware loading behavior with kernel modules which +try to load firmware in the module_init() path. The blocked event +runs into a timout now, which should allow the firmware to be loaded. + +Bugfix for a wrong DEVNAME= export, which breaks at least the udev-acl +tool. + +Bugfix for missing ID_ properties for GPT partitions. + +The RUN+="socket:.." option is deprecated and should not be used. A warning +during rules parsing is printed now. Services which listen to udev events, +need to subscribe to the netlink messages with libudev and not let udev block +in the rules execution until the message is delivered. + +udev 177 +======== +Bugfix for rule_generator instalation. + +udev 176 +======== +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 (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 +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, or --bindir=/sbin be specified. + +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 +'modprobe' tool is no longer executed by udev. + +The 'blkid' tool is no longer executed from udev rules. Udev links +directly to libblkid now. + +Firmware is loaded natively by udev now, the external 'firmware' binary +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 now also reloads the kernel module configuration. + +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 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 174 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udev daemon moved to /lib/udev/udevd. Non-systemd init systems +and non-dracut initramfs image generators need to change the init +scripts. Alternatively the udev build needs to move udevd back to +/sbin or create a symlink in /sbin, which is not done by default. + +The path_id, usb_id, input_id tools are built-in commands now and +the stand-alone tools do not exist anymore. Static lists of file in +initramfs generators need to be updated. For testing, the commands +can still be executed standalone with 'udevadm test-builtin <cmd>'. + +The fusectl filesystem is no longer mounted directly from udev. +Systemd systems will take care of mounting fusectl and configfs +now. Non-systemd systems need to ship their own rule if they +need these filesystems auto-mounted. + +The long deprecated keys: SYSFS=, ID=, BUS= have been removed. + +The support for 'udevadm trigger --type=failed, and the +RUN{fail_event_on_error} attribute was removed. + +The udev control socket is now created in /run/udev/control +and no longer as an abstract namespace one. + +The rules to create persistent network interface and cdrom link +rules automatically in /etc/udev/rules.d/ have been disabled by +default. Explicit configuration will be required for these use +cases, udev will no longer try to write any persistent system +configuration from a device hotplug path. + +udev 173 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udev-acl extra is no longer enabled by default now. To enable it, +--enable-udev_acl needs to be given at ./configure time. On systemd +systems, the udev-acl rules prevent it from running as the functionality +has moved to systemd. + +udev 172 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udev now enables kernel media-presence polling if available. Part +of udisks optical drive tray-handling moved to cdrom_id: The tray +is locked as soon as a media is detected to enable the receiving +of media-eject-request events. Media-eject-request events will +eject the media. + +Libudev enumerate is now able to enumerate a subtree of a given +device. + +The mobile-action-modeswitch modeswitch tool was deleted. The +functionality is provided by usb_modeswitch now. + +udev 171 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The systemd service files require systemd version 28. The systemd +socket activation make it possible now to start 'udevd' and 'udevadm +trigger' in parallel. + +udev 170 +======== +Fix bug in control message handling, which can lead to a failing +udevadm control --exit. Thanks to Jürg Billeter for help tracking +it down. + +udev 169 +======== +Bugfixes. + +We require at least Linux kernel 2.6.32 now. Some platforms might +require a later kernel that supports accept4() and similar, or +need to backport the trivial syscall wiring to the older kernels. + +The hid2hci tool moved to the bluez package and was removed. + +Many of the extras can be --enable/--disabled at ./configure +time. The --disable-extras option was removed. Some extras have +been disabled by default. The current options and their defaults +can be checked with './configure --help'. + +udev 168 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udev logs a warning now if /run is not writable at udevd +startup. It will still fall back to /dev/.udev, but this is +now considered a bug. + +The running udev daemon can now cleanly shut down with: + udevadm control --exit + +Udev in initramfs should clean the state of the udev database +with: udevadm info --cleanup-db which will remove all state left +behind from events/rules in initramfs. If initramfs uses +--cleanup-db and device-mapper/LVM, the rules in initramfs need +to add OPTIONS+="db_persist" for all dm devices. This will +prevent removal of the udev database for these devices. + +Spawned programs by PROGRAM/IMPORT/RUN now have a hard timeout of +120 seconds per process. If that timeout is reached the spawned +process will be killed. The event timeout can be overwritten with +udev rules. + +If systemd is used, udev gets now activated by netlink data. +Systemd will bind the netlink socket which will buffer all data. +If needed, such setup allows a seemless update of the udev daemon, +where no event can be lost during a udevd update/restart. +Packages need to make sure to: systemctl stop udev.socket udev.service +or 'mask' udev.service during the upgrade to prevent any unwanted +auto-spawning of udevd. +This version of udev conflicts with systemd version below 25. The +unchanged service files will not wirk correctly. + +udev 167 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udev runtime data moved from /dev/.udev/ to /run/udev/. The +/run mountpoint is supposed to be a tmpfs mounted during early boot, +available and writable to for all tools at any time during bootup, +it replaces /var/run/, which should become a symlink some day. + +If /run does not exist, or is not writable, udev will fall back using +/dev/.udev/. + +On systemd systems with initramfs and LVM used, packagers must +make sure, that the systemd and initramfs versions match. The initramfs +needs to create the /run mountpoint for udev to store the data, and +mount this tmpfs to /run in the rootfs, so the that the udev database +is preserved for the udev version started in the rootfs. + +The command 'udevadm info --convert-db' is gone. The udev daemon +itself, at startup, converts any old database version if necessary. + +The systemd services files have been reorganized. The udev control +socket is bound by systemd and passed to the started udev daemon. +The udev-settle.service is no longer active by default. Services which +can not handle hotplug setups properly need to actively pull it in, to +act like a barrier. Alternatively the settle service can be unconditionally +'systemctl'enabled, and act like a barrier for basic.target. + +The fstab_import callout is no longer built or installed. Udev +should not be used to mount, does not watch changes to fstab, and +should not mirror fstab values in the udev database. + +udev 166 +======== +Bugfixes. + +New and updated keymaps. + +udev 165 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udev database has changed, After installation of a new udev +version, 'udevadm info --convert-db' should be called, to let the new +udev/libudev version read the already stored data. + +udevadm now supports quoting of property values, and prefixing of +key names: + $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix=MY_ --query=property -n sda + MY_MAJOR='259' + MY_MINOR='0' + MY_DEVNAME='/dev/sda' + MY_DEVTYPE='disk' + ... + +libudev now supports: + udev_device_get_is_initialized() + udev_enumerate_add_match_is_initialized() +to be able to skip devices the kernel has created , but udev has +not already handled. + +libudev now supports: + udev_device_get_usec_since_initialized() +to retrieve the "age" of a udev device record. + +GUdev supports a more generic GUdevEnumerator class, udev TAG +handling, device initialization and timestamp now. + +The counterpart of /sys/dev/{char,block}/$major:$minor, +/dev/{char,block}/$major:$minor symlinks are now unconditionally +created, even when no rule files exist. + +New and updated keymaps. + +udev 164 +======== +Bugfixes. + +GUdev moved from /usr to /. + +udev 163 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 162 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Persistent network naming rules are disabled inside of Qemu/KVM now. + +New and updated keymaps. + +Udev gets unconditionally enabled on systemd installations now. There +is no longer the need to to run 'systemctl enable udev.service'. + +udev 161 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 160 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 159 +======== +Bugfixes. + +New and fixed keymaps. + +Install systemd service files if applicable. + +udev 158 +======== +Bugfixes. + +All distribution specific rules are removed from the udev source tree, +most of them are no longer needed. The Gentoo rules which allow to support +older kernel versions, which are not covered by the default rules anymore +has moved to rules/misc/30-kernel-compat.rules. + +udev 157 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The option --debug-trace and the environemnt variable UDEVD_MAX_CHILDS= +was removed from udevd. + +Udevd now checks the kernel commandline for the following variables: + udev.log-priority=<syslog priority> + udev.children-max=<maximum number of workers> + udev.exec-delay=<seconds to delay the execution of RUN=> +to help debuging coldplug setups where the loading of a kernel +module crashes the system. + +The subdirectory in the source tree rules/packages has been renamed to +rules/arch, anc contains only architecture specific rules now. + +udev 156 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 155 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Now the udev daemon itself, does on startup: + - copy the content of /lib/udev/devices to /dev + - create the standard symlinks like /dev/std{in,out,err}, + /dev/core, /dev/fd, ... + - use static node information provided by kernel modules + and creates these nodes to allow module on-demand loading + - possibly apply permissions to all ststic nodes from udev + rules which are annotated to match a static node + +The default mode for a device node is 0600 now to match the kernel +created devtmpfs defaults. If GROUP= is specified and no MODE= is +given the default will be 0660. + +udev 154 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udev now gradually starts to pass control over the primary device nodes +and their names to the kernel, and will in the end only manage the +permissions of the node, and possibly create additional symlinks. +As a first step NAME="" will be ignored, and NAME= setings with names +other than the kernel provided name will result in a logged warning. +Kernels that don't provide device names, or devtmpfs is not used, will +still work as they did before, but it is strongly recommended to use +only the same names for the primary device node as the recent kernel +provides for all devices. + +udev 153 +======== +Fix broken firmware loader search path. + +udev 152 +======== +Bugfixes. + +"udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now instead of "add" +events. The "udev boot script" might need to add "--action=add" to +the trigger command if not already there, in case the initial coldplug +events are expected as "add" events. + +The option "all_partitons" was removed from udev. This should not be +needed for usual hardware. Udev can not safely make assumptions +about non-existing partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no +longer provide this unreliable and unsafe option. + +The option "ignore_remove" was removed from udev. With devtmpfs +udev passed control over device nodes to the kernel. This option +should not be needed, or can not work as advertised. Neither +udev nor the kernel will remove device nodes which are copied from +the /lib/udev/devices/ directory. + +All "add|change" matches are replaced by "!remove" in the rules and +in the udev logic. All types of events will update possible symlinks +and permissions, only "remove" is handled special now. + +The modem modeswitch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch +program should be used instead. + +New and fixed keymaps. + +udev 151 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 150 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Kernels with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y are not supported since a while. Many users +depend on the current sysfs layout and the information not available in the +deprecated layout. All remaining support for the deprecated sysfs layout is +removed now. + +udev 149 +======== +Fix for a possible endless loop in the new input_id program. + +udev 148 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The option "ignore_device" does no longer exist. There is no way to +ignore an event, as libudev events can not be suppressed by rules. +It only prevented RUN keys from being executed, which results in an +inconsistent behavior in current setups. + +BUS=, SYSFS{}=, ID= are long deprecated and should be SUBSYSTEM(S)=, +ATTR(S){}=, KERNEL(S)=. It will cause a warning once for every rule +file from now on. + +The support for the deprecated IDE devices has been removed from the +default set of rules. Distros who still care about non-libata drivers +need to add the rules to the compat rules file. + +The ID_CLASS property on input devices has been replaced by the more accurate +set of flags ID_INPUT_{KEYBOARD,KEY,MOUSE,TOUCHPAD,TABLET,JOYSTICK}. These are +determined by the new "input_id" prober now. Some devices, such as touchpads, +can have several classes. So if you previously had custom udev rules which e. g. +checked for ENV{ID_CLASS}=="kbd", you need to replace this with +ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=="?*". + +udev 147 +======== +Bugfixes. + +To support DEVPATH strings larger than the maximum file name length, the +private udev database format has changed. If some software still reads the +private files in /dev/.udev/, which it shouldn't, now it's time to fix it. +Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev +is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without +prior notice. + +Multiple devices claiming the same names in /dev are limited to symlinks +only now. Mixing identical symlink names and node names is not supported. +This reduces the amount of data in the database significantly. + +NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous. +It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed +from all rules. + +Most NAME= instructions got removed. Kernel 2.6.31 supplies the needed names +if they are not the default. To support older kernels, the NAME= rules need to +be added to the compat rules file. + +Symlinks to udevadm with the old command names are no longer resolved to +the udevadm commands. + +The udev-acl tool got adopted to changes in ConsoleKit. Version 0.4.1 is +required now. + +The option "last_rule" does no longer exist. Its use breaks too many +things which expect to be run from independent later rules, and is an idication +that something needs to be fixed properly instead. + +The gudev API is no longer marked as experimental, +G_UDEV_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE is no longer needed. The gudev introspection +is enabled by default now. Various projects already depend on introspection +information to bind dynamic languages to the gudev interfaces. + +udev 146 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udevadm trigger "--retry-failed" option, which is replaced since quite +a while by "--type=failed" is removed. + +The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN +option "ignore_error" is replaced by a "fail_event_on_error" option, and the +default is not to track any failing RUN executions. + +New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated. + +udev 145 +======== +Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are +changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules. + +udev 144 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the +name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be +exported with the event. + +Firmware files are looked up in: + /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware/updates + /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) + /lib/firmware" +now. + +ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata. +ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices. + +udev 143 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The configure options have changed because another library needs to be +installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix, +libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in +the README file. + +Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces +the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because +cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon. +After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for +future events, all others get cleaned up. + +To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now. +Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev. + +The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is +no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be +accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv. + +Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on, +incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version. + +To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will +build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy +is available here: + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ + +The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main +udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and +they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras. + +udev 142 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the +repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng +package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the +util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid +can not be used with udev. + +Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages +to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be +installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters +match on the <subsytem>:<devtype> properties of the device. + This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current +users over to directly use libudev. + Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might +eventually change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported +interface are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen +soon. + +A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED +is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at +startup. It should still be able to boot-up, but advanced rules and system +services which depend on the information not available in the old sysfs +format will fail to work correctly. + +DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. In case older kernels +need to be supported, the old shell script should be added to a compat +rules file. + +udev 141 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The processed udev events get send back to the netlink socket. Libudev +provides access to these events. This is work-in-progress, to replace +the DeviceKit daemon functionality directly with libudev. There are +upcoming kernel changes to allow non-root users to subcribe to these +events. + +udev 140 +======== +Bugfixes. + +"udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for, +instead of waiting for "all" events. + +udev 139 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed +during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev +rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished +event handling the watch is restored. + +udev 138 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch". +If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur. +/dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated. + +udev 137 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks +are always updated with a test run now. + +The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user +and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems) or --resolve-names=late to +lookup user and groups every time events are handled. + +udev 136 +======== +Bugfixes. + +We are currently merging the Ubuntu rules in the udev default rules, +and get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup, regarding +device names, symlinks, and default device permissions. On udev startup, +we now expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids with +glibc's getgrnam(): + disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem. +LDAP setups need to make sure, that these groups are always resolvable at +bootup, with only the rootfs mounted, and without network access available. + +Some systems may need to add some new, currently not used groups, or need +to add some users to new groups, but the cost of this change is minimal, +compared to the pain the current, rather random, differences between the +various distributions cause for upstream projects and third-party vendors. + +In general, "normal" users who log into a machine should never be a member +of any such group, but the device-access should be managed by dynamic ACLs, +which get added and removed for the specific users on login/logout and +session activity/inactivity. These groups are only provided for custom setups, +and mainly system services, to allow proper privilege separation. +A video-streaming daemon uid would be a member of "audio" and "video", to get +access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user should ever belong +to the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with +any ssh-session established from the other side of the world. + +/dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices, +which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique +devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real +USB serial number in the device - are always found with the same +name in the by-id/ directory. +Completely identical devices may overwrite their names in by-id/ +and can only be found reliably in the by-path/ directory. Devices +specified by by-path/ must not change their connection, like the +USB port number they are plugged in, to keep their name. + +To support some advanced features, Linux 2.6.22 is the oldest supported +version now. The kernel config with enabled SYSFS_DEPRECATED is no longer +supported. Older kernels should still work, and devices nodes should be +reliably created, but some rules and libudev will not work correctly because +the old kernels do not provide the expected information or interfaces. + +udev 135 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Fix for a possible segfault while swapping network interface names in udev +versions 131-134. + +udev 134 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The group "video" is part of the default rules now. + +udev 133 +======== +Bugfix for kernels using SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option and finding parent +block devices in some cases. No common distro uses this option anymore, +and we do not get enough testing for this and recent udev versions. If +this option is not needed to run some old distro with a new kernel, +it should be disabled in the kernel config. + +Bugfix for the $links substitution variable, which may crash if no links +are created. This should not happen in usual setups because we always +create /dev/{block,char}/ links. + +The strings of the parsed rules, which are kept in memory, no longer +contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This, and the +new rules parsing/matching code reduces the total in-memory size of +a huge distro rule sets to 0.08 MB, compared to the 1.2MB of udev +version 130. + +The export of DEVTYPE=disk/partition got removed from the default +rules. This value is available from the kernel. The pnp shell script +modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. ACPI devices have _proper_ +modalias support and take care of the same functionality. +Installations which support old kernels, but install current default +udev rules may want to add that to the compat rules file. + +Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not +stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe", +and if any other filesytem type matches at the same time, libvolume_id +will, by default, not return any probing result. This is intended to prevent +mis-detection with conflicting left-over signatures found from earlier +file system formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order +in case of multiple competing signatures. In some setups the kernel allows +to mount a volume with just the old filesystem signature still in place. +This may damage the new filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting +it. Because volume_id can not decide which one the correct signature is, +the wrong signatures need to be removed manually from the volume, or the +volume needs to be reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible +auto-mounting. + +udev 132 +======== +Fix segfault if compiled without optimization and dbg() does not get +compiled out and uses variables which are not available. + +udev 131 +======== +Bugfixes. (And maybe new bugs. :)) + +The rule matching engine got converted from a rule list to a token +array which reduced the in-memory rules representation of a full +featured distros with thousends of udev rules from 1.2MB to 0.12 MB. +Limits like 5 ENV and ATTR matches, and one single instance for most +other keys per rule are gone. + +The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign +a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual +for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final +assignment with NAME:="<value>". + +All udev code now uses libudev, which is also exported. The library +is still under development, marked as experimental, and its interface +may change as long as the DeviceKit integration is not finished. + +Many thanks to Alan Jenkins for his continuous help, and finding and +optimizing some of the computing expensive parts. + +udev 130 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Kernel devices and device nodes are connected now by reverse indizes in +/sys and /dev. A device number retrieved by a stat() or similar, the +kernel device directory can be found by looking up: + /sys/dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min> +and the device node of the same device by looking up: + /dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min> + +udev 129 +======== +Fix recently introduced bug, which caused a compilation without large +file support, where vol_id does not recognize raid signatures at the end +of a volume. + +Firewire disks now create both, by-id/scsi-* and by-id/ieee-* links. +Seems some kernel versions prevent the creation of the ieee-* links, +so people used the scsi-* link which disappeared now. + +More libudev work. Almost all udevadm functionality comes from libudev +now. + +udevadm trigger has a new option --type, which allows to trigger events +for "devices", for "subsystems", or "failed" devices. The old option +--retry-failed" still works, but is no longer mentioned in the man page. + +udev 128 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The udevadm info --device-id-of-file= output has changed to use +the obvious format. Possible current users should use the --export +option which is not affected. + +The old udev commands symlinks to udevadm are not installed, if +these symlinks are used, a warning is printed. + +udev 127 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Optical drive's media is no longer probed for raid signatures, +reading the end of the device causes some devices to malfunction. +Also the offset of the last session found is used now to probe +for the filesystem. + +The volume_id library got a major version number update to 1, +some deprecated functions are removed. + +A shared library "libudev" gets installed now to provide access +to udev device information. DeviceKit, the successor of HAL, will +need this library to access the udev database and search sysfs for +devices. +The library is currently in an experimental state, also the API is +expected to change, as long as the DeviceKit integration is not +finished. + +udev 126 +======== +We use ./configure now. See INSTALL for details. Current +options are: + --prefix= + "/usr" - prefix for man pages, include files + --exec-prefix= + "" - the root filesystem, prefix for libs and binaries + --sysconfdir= + "/etc" + --with-libdir-name= + "lib" - directory name for libraries, not a path name + multilib 64bit systems may use "lib64" instead of "lib" + --enable-debug + compile-in verbose debug messages + --disable-logging + disable all logging and compile-out all log strings + --with-selinux + link against SELInux libraries, to set the expected context + for created files + +In the default rules, the group "disk" gets permissions 0660 instead +of 0640. One small step closer to unify distro rules. Some day, all +distros hopefully end up with the same set of rules. + +No symlinks to udevadm are installed anymore, if they are still needed, +they should be provided by the package. + +udev 125 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should +be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private to +the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up rule +files from: + /lib/udev/rules.d/ - default installed rules + /etc/udev/rules.d/ - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules + /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after bootup +It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are sorted +in lexical order. + +To help creating /dev/root, we have now: + $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix="ROOT_" --device-id-of-file=/ + ROOT_MAJOR=8 + ROOT_MINOR=5 +In case the current --device-id-of-file is already used, please switch to +the --export format version, it saves the output parsing and the old +format will be changed to use ':' as a separator, like the format in the +sysfs 'dev' file. + +udev 124 +======== +Fix cdrom_id to properly recognize blank media. + +udev 123 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Tape drive id-data is queried from /dev/bsg/* instead of the tape +nodes. This avoids rewinding tapes on open(). + +udev 122 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The symlinks udevcontrol and udevtrigger are no longer installed by +the Makefile. + +The scsi_id program does not depend on sysfs anymore. It can speak +SGv4 now, so /dev/bsg/* device nodes can be used, to query SCSI device +data, which should solve some old problems with tape devices, where +we better do not open all tape device nodes to identify the device. + +udev 121 +======== +Many bugfixes. + +The cdrom_id program is replaced by an advanced version, which can +detect most common device types, and also properties of the inserted +media. This is part of moving some basic functionality from HAL into +udev (and the kernel). + +udev 120 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The last WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rule is removed from the default rules. + +The symlinks to udevadm for the debugging tools: udevmonitor and +udevtest are no longer created. + +The symlinks to the udevadm man page for the old tool names are +no longer created. + +Abstract namespace sockets paths in RUN+="socket:@<path>" rules, +should be prefixed with '@' to indicate that the path is not a +real file. + +udev 119 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 118 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udevstart is removed from the tree, it did not get installed for +a long time now, and is long replaced by trigger and settle. + +udev 117 +======== +Bugfixes. + +All udev tools are merged into a single binary called udevadm. +The old names of the tools are built-in commands in udevadm now. +Symlinks to udevadm, with the names of the old tools, provide +the same functionality as the standalone tools. There is also +only a single udevadm.8 man page left for all tools. + +Tools like mkinitramfs should be checked, if they need to include +udevadm in the list of files. + +udev 116 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 115 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The etc/udev/rules.d/ directory now contains a default set of basic +udev rules. This initial version is the result of a rules file merge +of Fedora and openSUSE. For these both distros only a few specific +rules are left in their own file, named after the distro. Rules which +are optionally installed, because they are only valid for a specific +architecture, or rules for subsystems which are not always used are +in etc/udev/packages/. + +udev 114 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Dynamic rules can be created in /dev/.udev/rules.d/ to trigger +actions by dynamically created rules. + +SYMLINK=="<value>" matches agains the entries in the list of +currently defined symlinks. The links are not created in the +filesystem at that point in time, but the values can be matched. + +RUN{ignore_error}+="<program>" will ignore any exit code from the +program and not record as a failed event. + +udev 113 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Final merge of patches/features from the Ubuntu package. + +udev 112 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Control characters in filesystem label strings are no longer silenty +removed, but hex-encoded, to be able to uniquely identify the device +by its symlink in /dev/disk/by-label/. +If libvolume_id is used by mount(8), LABEL= will work as expected, +if slashes or other characters are used in the label string. + +To test the existence of a file, TEST=="<file>" and TEST!="<file>" +can be specified now. The TEST key accepts an optional mode mask +TEST{0100}=="<is executable file>". + +Scsi_id now supports a mode without expecting scsi-specific sysfs +entries to allow the extraction of cciss-device persistent properties. + +udev 111 +======== +Bugfixes. + +In the future, we may see uuid's which are just simple character +strings (see the DDF Raid Specification). For that reason vol_id now +exports ID_FS_UUID_SAFE, just like ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE. For things like +the creation of symlinks, the *_SAFE values ensure, that no control +or whitespace characters are used in the filename. + +Possible users of libvolume_id, please use the volume_id_get_* functions. +The public struct will go away in a future release of the library. + +udev 110 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Removal of useless extras/eventrecorder.sh. + +udev 109 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 108 +======== +Bugfixes. + +The directory multiplexer for dev.d/ and hotplug.d are finally removed +from the udev package. + +udev 107 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Symlinks can have priorities now, the priority is assigned to the device +and specified with OPTIONS="link_priority=100". Devices with higher +priorities overwrite the symlinks of devices with lower priorities. +If the device that currently owns the link, goes away, the symlink +will be removed, and recreated, pointing to the next device with the +highest actual priority. This should make /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid,id} +more reliable, if multiple devices contain the same metadata and overwrite +these symlinks. + +The dasd_id program is removed from the udev tree, and dasdinfo, with the +needed rules, are part of the s390-tools now. + +Please add KERNEL=="[0-9]*:[0-9]*" to the scsi wait-for-sysfs rule, +we may get the scsi sysfs mess fixed some day, and this will only catch +the devices we are looking for. + +USB serial numbers for storage devices have the target:lun now appended, +to make it possibble to distinguish broken multi-lun devices with all +the same SCSI identifiers. + +Note: The extra "run_directory" which searches and executes stuff in +/etc/hotplug.d/ and /etc/dev.d/ is long deprecated, and will be removed +with the next release. Make sure, that you don't use it anymore, or +provides your own implementation of that inefficient stuff. +We are tired of reports about a "slow udev", because these directories +contain stuff, that runs with _every_ event, instead of using rules, +that run programs only for the matching events. + +udev 106 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 105 +======== +Bugfixes. + +DRIVER== will match only for devices that actually have a real +driver. DRIVERS== must be used, if parent devices should be +included in the match. + +Libvolume_id's "linux_raid" detection needed another fix. + +udev 104 +======== +Bugfixes. + +udev 103 +======== +Add additional check to volume_id detection of via_raid, cause +some company decided to put a matching pattern all over the empty +storage area of their music players. + +udev 102 +======== +Fix path_id for SAS devices. + +udev 101 +======== +The udev daemon can be started with --debug-trace now, which will +execute all events serialized to get a chance to catch a possible +action that crashes the box. + +A warning is logged, if PHYSDEV* keys, the "device" link, or a parent +device attribute like $attr{../file} is used, only WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rules +are excluded from the warning. Referencing parent attributes directly +may break when something in the kernel driver model changes. Udev will +just find the attribute by walking up the parent chain. + +Udevtrigger now sorts the list of devices depending on the device +dependency, so a "usb" device is triggered after the parent "pci" +device. + +udev 100 +======== +Revert persistent-storage ata-serial '_' '-' replacement. + +udev 099 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Udevtrigger can now filter the list of devices to be triggered. Matches +for subsystems or sysfs attributes can be specified. + +The entries in /dev/.udev/queue and /dev/.udev/failed have changed to +zero-sized files to avoid pointing to /sys and confuse broken tools which +scan the /dev directory. To retry failed events, udevtrigger --retry-failed +should be used now. + +The rules and scripts to create udev rules for persistent network +devices and optical drives are in the extras/rules_generator directory +now. If you use something similar, please consider replacing your own +version with this, to share the support effort. The rule_generator +installs its own rules into /etc/udev/rules.d. + +The cdrom_id tool installs its own rule now in /etc/udev/rules.d, cause +the rule_generator depends on cdrom_id to be called in an earlier rule. + +udev 098 +======== +Bugfixes. + +Renaming of some key names (the old names still work): +BUS -> SUBSYSTEMS, ID -> KERNELS, SYSFS -> ATTRS, DRIVER -> DRIVERS. +(The behavior of the key DRIVER will change soon in one of the next +releases, to match only the event device, please switch to DRIVERS +instead. If DRIVER is used, it will behave like DRIVERS, but an error +is logged. +With the new key names, we have a more consistent and simpler scheme. +We can match the properties of the event device only, with: KERNEL, +SUBSYSTEM, ATTR, DRIVER. Or include all the parent devices in the match, +with: KERNELS, SUBSYSTEMS, ATTRS, DRIVERS. ID, BUS, SYSFS, DRIVER are no +longer mentioned in the man page and should be switched in the rule +files. + +ATTR{file}="value" can be used now, to write to a sysfs file of the +event device. Instead of: + ..., SYSFS{type}=="0|7|14", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 60 > /sys$$DEVPATH/timeout'" +we now can do: + ..., ATTR{type}=="0|7|14", ATTR{timeout}="60" + +All the PHYSDEV* keys are deprecated and will be removed from a +future kernel: + PHYDEVPATH - is the path of a parent device and should not be + needed at all. + PHYSDEVBUS - is just a SUBSYSTEM value of a parent, and can be + matched with SUBSYSTEMS== + PHYSDEVDRIVER - for bus devices it is available as ENV{DRIVER}. + Newer kernels will have DRIVER in the environment, + for older kernels udev puts in. Class device will + no longer carry this property of a parent and + DRIVERS== can be used to match such a parent value. +Note that ENV{DRIVER} is only available for a few bus devices, where +the driver is already bound at device event time. On coldplug, the +events for a lot devices are already bound to a driver, and they will have +that value set. But on hotplug, at the time the kernel creates the device, +it can't know what driver may claim the device after that, therefore +in most cases it will be empty. + +Failed events should now be re-triggered with: + udevtrigger --retry-failed. +Please switch to this command, so we keep the details of the /dev/.udev/failed/ +files private to the udev tools. We may need to switch the current symlink +target, cause some obviously broken tools try to scan all files in /dev +including /dev/.udev/, find the links to /sys and end up stat()'ing sysfs files +million times. This takes ages on slow boxes. + +The udevinfo attribute walk (-a) now works with giving a device node +name (-n) instead of a devpath (-p). The query now always works, also when +no database file was created by udev. + +The built-in /etc/passwd /etc/group parser is removed, we always depend on +getpwnam() and getgrnam() now. One of the next releases will depend on +fnmatch() and may use getopt_long(). + +udev 097 +======== +Bugfixes and small improvements. + +udev 096 +======== +Fix path_id for recent kernels. + +udev 095 +======== +%e is finally gone. + +Added support for swapping network interface names, by temporarily +renaming the device and wait for the target name to become free. + +udev 094 +======== +The built-in MODALIAS key and substitution is removed. + +udev 093 +======== +The binary firmware helper is replaced by the usual simple +shell script. Udevsend is removed from the tree. + +udev 092 +======== +Bugfix release. + +udev 091 +======== +Some more keys require the correct use of '==' and '=' depending +on the kind of operation beeing an assignment or a match. Rules +with invalid operations are skipped and logged to syslog. Please +test with udevtest if the parsing of your rules throws errors and +fix possibly broken rules. + +udev 090 +======== +Provide "udevsettle" to wait for all current udev events to finish. +It also watches the current kernel netlink queue by comparing the +even sequence number to make sure that there are no current pending +events that have not already arrived in the daemon. + +udev 089 +======== +Fix rule to skip persistent rules for removable IDE devices, which +also skipped optical IDE drives. + +All *_id program are installed in /lib/udev/ by default now. + +No binary is stripped anymore as this should be done in the +packaging process and not at build time. + +libvolume_id is provided as a shared library now and vol_id is +linked against it. Also one of the next HAL versions will require +this library, and the HAL build process will also require the +header file to be installed. The copy of the same code in HAL will +be removed to have only a single copy left on the system. + +udev 088 +======== +Add persistent links for SCSI tapes. The rules file is renamed +to 60-persistent-storage.rules. + +Create persistent path for usb devices. Can be used for all sorts +of devices that can't be distinguished by other properties like +multiple identical keyboards and mice connected to the same box. + +Provide "udevtrigger" program to request events on coldplug. The +shell script is much too slow with thousends of devices. + +udev 087 +======== +Fix persistent disk rules to exclude removable IDE drives. + +Warn if %e, $modalias or MODALIAS is used. + +udev 086 +======== +Fix queue export, which wasn't correct for subsequent add/remove +events for the same device. + +udev 085 +======== +Fix cramfs detection on big endian. + +Make WAIT_FOR_SYSFS usable in "normal" rules and silent if the whole +device goes away. + +udev 084 +======== +If BUS== and SYSFS{}== have been used in the same rule, the sysfs +attributes were only checked at the parent device that matched the +by BUS requested subsystem. Fix it to also look at the device we +received the event for. + +Build variable CROSS has changed to CROSS_COMPILE to match the kernel +build name. + +udev 083 +======== +Fix a bug where NAME="" would prevent RUN from beeing executed. + +RUN="/bin/program" does not longer automatically add the subsystem +as the first parameter. This is from the days of /sbin/hotplug +which is dead now and it's just confusing to need to add a space at +the end of the program name to prevent this. +If you use rules that need the subsystem as the first parameter, +like the old "udev_run_hotlugd" and "udev_run_devd", add the subsystem +to the key like RUN+="/bin/program $env{SUBSYSTEM}". + +udev 082 +======== +The udev man page has moved to udev(7) as it does not 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 +/sys/class devices to /sys/devices and /sys/block to /sys/class/block. + +Clarify BUS, ID, $id usage and fix $id behavior. This prepares for +moving the class devices to /sys/devices. + +Thanks again to Marco for help finding a hopefully nice compromise +to make %b simpler and working again. + +udev 080 +======== +Complete removal of libsysfs, replaced by simple helper functions +which are much simpler and a bit faster. The udev daemon operatesentirely +on event parameters and does not use sysfs for simple rules anymore. +Please report any new bugs/problems, that may be caused by this big +change. They will be fixed immediately. + +The enumeration format character '%e' is deprecated and will be +removed sometimes from a future udev version. It never worked correctly +outside of udevstart, so we can't use it with the new parallel +coldplug. A simple enumeration is as useless as the devfs naming +scheme, just get rid of both if you still use it. + +MODALIAS and $modalias is not needed and will be removed from one of +the next udev versions, replace it in all rules with ENV{MODALIAS} or +the sysfs "modalias" value. + +Thanks a lot to Marco for all his help on finding and fixing bugs. + +udev 079 +======== +Let scsi_id request libata drive serial numbers from page 0x80. + +Renamed etc/udev/persistent.rules to persistent-disk.rules and +added /dev/disk/by-name/* for device mapper device names. + +Removed %e from the man page. It never worked reliably outside +of udevstart and udevstart is no longer recommended to use. + +udev 078 +======== +Symlinks are now exported to the event environment. Hopefully it's no +longer needed to run udevinfo from an event process, like it was +mentioned on the hotplug list: + UDEV [1134776873.702967] add@/block/sdb + ... + DEVNAME=/dev/sdb + DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-IBM_Memory_Key_0218B301030027E8 /dev/disk/by-path/usb-0218B301030027E8:0:0:0 + +udev 077 +======== +Fix a problem if udevsend is used as the hotplug handler and tries to use +syslog, which causes a "vc" event loop. 2.6.15 will make udevsend obsolete +and this kind of problems will hopefully go away soon. + +udev 076 +======== +All built-in logic to work around bad sysfs timing is removed with this +version. The need to wait for sysfs files is almost fixed with a kernel +version that doesn't work with this udev version anyway. Until we fix +the timing of the "bus" link creation, the former integrated logic should +be emulated by a rule placed before all other rules: + ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus" + +The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will be in +/$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this +to anything else. +If the init script or something else used this value, just depend on +this hardcoded path. But remember _all_content_ of this directory is +still private to udev and can change at any time. + +Default location for rule sripts and helper programs is now: /lib/udev/. +Everything that is not useful on the commandline should go into this +directory. Some of the helpers in the extras folder are installed there +now. The rules need to be changed, to find the helpers there. + +Also /lib/udev/devices is recommended as a directory where packages or +the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over to /dev at +every boot. This should replace the various solutions with custom config +files. + +Udevsend does no longer start the udev daemon. This must be done with +the init script that prepares /dev on tmpfs and creates the initial nodes, +before starting the daemon. + +udev 075 +======== +Silent a too verbose error logging for the old hotplug.d/ dev.d/ +emulation. + +The copy of klibc is removed. A systemwide installed version of klibc +should be used to build a klibc udev now. + +udev 074 +======== +NAME="" will not create any nodes, but execute RUN keys. To completely +ignore an event the OPTION "ignore_device" should be used. + +After removal of the reorder queue, events with a TIMEOUT can be executed +without any queuing now. + +udev 073 +======== +Fixed bug in udevd, if inotify is not available. We depend on netlink +uevents now, kernels without that event source will not work with that +version of udev anymore. + +udev 072 +======== +The rule parsing happens now in the daemon once at startup, all udev +event processes inherit the already parsed rules from the daemon. +It is shipped with SUSE10.0 and reduces heavily the system load at +startup. The option to save precompiled rules and let the udev process +pick the them up is removed, as it's no longer needed. + +Kernel 2.6.15 will have symlinks at /class/input pointing to the real +device. Libsysfs is changed to "translate" the requested link into the +real device path, as it would happen with the hotplug event. Otherwise +device removal and the udev database will not work. + +Using 'make STRIPCMD=' will leave the binaries unstripped for debugging +and packaging. + +A few improvements for vol_id, the filesytem probing code. + +udev 071 +======== +Fix a stupid typo in extras/run_directory for "make install". + +scsi_id creates the temporary devnode now in /dev for usage with a +non-writable /tmp directory. + +The uevent kernel socket buffer can carry app. 50.000 events now, +let's see who can break this again. :) + +The upcoming kernel will have a new input driver core integration. +Some class devices are now symlinks to the real device. libsysfs +needs a fix for this to work correctly. Udevstart of older udev +versions will _not_ create these devices! + +udev 070 +======== +Fix a 'install' target in the Makefile, that prevents EXTRAS from +beeing installed. + +udev 069 +======== +A bunch of mostly trivial bugfixes. From now on no node name or +symlink name can contain any character than plain whitelisted ascii +characters or validated utf8 byte-streams. This is needed for the +/dev/disk/by-label/* links, because we import untrusted data and +export it to the filesystem. + +udev 068 +======== +More bugfixes. If udevd was started from the kernel, we don't +have stdin/stdout/stderr, which broke the forked tools in some +situations. + +udev 067 +======== +Bugfix. udevstart event ordering was broken for a long time. +The new run_program() uncovered it, because /dev/null was not +available while we try to run external programs. +Now udevstart should create it before we run anything. + +udev 066 +======== +Minor bugfixes and some distro rules updates. If you don't have the +persistent disk rules in /dev/disk/by-*/* on your distro, just +grab it from here. :) + +udev 065 +======== +We can use socket communication now to pass events from udev to +other programs: + RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" +will pass the whole udev event to the HAL daemon without the need +for a forked helper. (See ChangeLog for udevmonitor, as an example) + +udev 064 +======== +Mostly bugfixes and see ChangeLog. + +The test for the existence of an environment value should be +switched from: + ENV{KEY}=="*" to ENV{KEY}=="?*" +because "*" will not fail anymore, if the key does not exist or +is empty. + +udev 063 +======== +Bugfixes and a few tweaks described in the ChangeLog. + +udev 062 +======== +Mostly a Bugfix release. + +Added WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="<attribute>" to be able to fight against the sysfs +timing with custom rules. + +udev 061 +======== +We changed the internal rule storage format. Our large rule files took +2 MB of RAM, with the change we are down to 99kB. + +If the device-node has been created with default name and no symlink or +options are to remenber, it is not longer stored in the udevdb. HAL will +need to be updated to work correctly with that change. + +To overrride optimization flags, OPTFLAGS may be used now. + +udev 060 +======== +Bugfix release. + +udev 059 +======== +Major changes happened with this release. The goal is to take over the +complete kernel-event handling and provide a more efficient way to dispatch +kernel events. Replacing most of the current shell script logic and the +kernel forked helper with a netlink-daemon and a rule-based event handling. + +o udevd listens to netlink events now. The first valid netlink event + will make udevd ignore any message from udevsend that contains a + SEQNUM, to avoid duplicate events. The forked events can be disabled + with: + echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug + For full support, the broken input-subsytem needs to be fixed, not to + bypass the driver core. + +o /etc/dev.d/ + /etc/hotplug.d/ directory multiplexing is completely + removed from udev itself and must be emulated by calling small + helper binaries provided in the extras folder: + make EXTRAS=extras/run_directory/ + will build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd, which can be called + from a rule if needed: + RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd" + The recommended way to handle this is to convert all the calls from + the directories to explicit udev rules and get completely rid of the + multiplexing. (To catch a ttyUSB event, you now no longer need to + fork and exit 300 tty script instances you are not interested in, it + is just one rule that matches exactly the device.) + +o udev handles now _all_ events not just events for class and block + devices, this way it is possible to control the complete event + behavior with udev rules. Especially useful for rules like: + ACTION="add", DEVPATH="/devices/*", MODALIAS=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias" + +o As used in the modalias rule, udev supports now textual + substitution placeholder along with the usual format chars. This + needs to be documented, for now it's only visible in udev_rules_parse.c. + +o The rule keys support now more operations. This is documented in the + man page. It is possible to add values to list-keys like the SYMLINK + and RUN list with KEY+="value" and to clear the list by assigning KEY="". + Also "final"-assignments are supported by using KEY:="value", which will + prevent changing the key by any later rule. + +o kernel 2.6.12 has the "detached_state" attribute removed from + sysfs, which was used to recognize sysfs population. We switched that + to wait for the "bus" link, which is only available in kernels after 2.6.11. + Running this udev version on older kernels may cause a short delay for + some events. + +o To provide infrastructure for persistent device naming, the id programs: + scsi_id, vol_id (former udev_volume_id), and ata_id (new) are able now + to export the probed data in environment key format: + pim:~ # /sbin/ata_id --export /dev/hda + ID_MODEL=HTS726060M9AT00 + ID_SERIAL=MRH401M4G6UM9B + ID_REVISION=MH4OA6BA + + The following rules: + KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", IMPORT="/sbin/ata_id --export $tempnode" + KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_MODEL}_$env{ID_SERIAL}" + + Will create: + kay@pim:~> tree /dev/disk + /dev/disk + |-- by-id + | |-- HTS726060M9AT00_MRH401M4G6UM9B -> ../../hda + | `-- IBM-Memory_Key -> ../../sda + |-- by-label + | |-- swap -> ../../hda1 + | |-- date -> ../../sda1 + | `-- home -> ../../hda3 + `-- by-uuid + |-- 2E08712B0870F2E7 -> ../../hda3 + |-- 9352cfef-7687-47bc-a2a3-34cf136f72e1 -> ../../hda1 + |-- E845-7A89 -> ../../sda1 + `-- b2a61681-3812-4f13-a4ff-920d70604299 -> ../../hda2 + + The IMPORT= operation will import these keys in the environment and make + it available for later PROGRAM= and RUN= executed programs. The keys are + also stored in the udevdb and can be queried from there with one of the + next udev versions. + +o A few binaries are silently added to the repository, which can be used + to replay kernel events from initramfs instead of using coldplug. udevd + can be instructed now to queue-up events while the stored events from + initramfs are filled into the udevd-queue. This code is still under + development and there is no documentation now besides the code itself. + The additional binaries get compiled, but are not installed by default. + +o There is also a temporary fix for a performance problem where too many + events happen in parallel and every event needs to parse the rules. + udev can now read precompiled rules stored on disk. This is likely to be + replaced by a more elegant solution in a future udev version. + +udev 058 +======== +With kernel version 2.6.12, the sysfs file "detached_state" was removed. +Fix for libsysfs not to expect this file was added. + +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 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 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 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. + +We support log priority levels now. The value udev_log in udev.conf is used +to determine what is printed to syslog. This makes it possible to +run a version with compiled-in debug messages in a production environment +which is sometimes needed to find a bug. +It is still possible to supress the inclusion of _any_ syslog usage with +USE_LOG=false to create the smallest possible binaries if needed. +The configured udev_log value can be overridden with the environment variable +UDEV_LOG. + +udev 056 +======== +Possible use of a system-wide klibc: + make USE_KLIBC=true KLCC=/usr/bin/klcc all +will link against an external klibc and our own version will be ignored. + +udev 055 +======== +We support an unlimited count of symlinks now. + +If USE_STATIC=true is passed to a glibc build, we link statically and use +a built-in userdb parser to resolve user and group names. + +The PLACE= key is gone. It can be replaced by an ID= for a long time, because +we walk up the chain of physical devices to find a match. + +The KEY="<value>" format supports '=', '==', '!=,' , '+=' now. This makes it +easy to skip certain attribute matches without composing rules with weird +character class negations like: + KERNEL="[!s][!c][!d]*" +this can now be replaced with: + KERNEL!="scd*" +The current simple '=' is still supported, and should work as it does today, +but existing rules should be converted if possible, to be better readable. + +We have new ENV{}== key now, to match against a maximum of 5 environment +variables. + +udevstart is its own binary again, because we don't need co carry this araound +with every forked event. |