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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, cause 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, cause /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}=="?*" cause "*" 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, cause 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, cause we don't need co carry this araound with every forked event. |