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3Bugfixes.
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5To support DEVPATH strings larger than the maximum file name length, the
6private udev database format has changed. If some software still reads the
7private files in /dev/.udev/, which it shouldn't, now it's time to fix it.
8Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev
9is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without
10prior notice.
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12Multiple devices claiming the same names in /dev are limited to symlinks
13only now. Mixing identical symlink names and node names is not supported.
14This reduces the amount of data in the database significantly.
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16NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous.
17It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed
18from all rules.
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20Most NAME= instructions got removed. Kernel 2.6.31 supplies the needed names
21if they are not the default. To support older kernels, the NAME= rules need to
22be added to the compat rules file.
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24Symlinks to udevadm with the old command names are no longer resolved to
25the udevadm commands.
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29Bugfixes.
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31The udevadm trigger "--retry-failed" option, which is replaced since quite
32a while by "--type=failed" is removed.
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f7c5b04f 34The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN
16dd0aa9 35option "ignore_error" is replaced by a "fail_event_on_error" option, and the
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36default is not to track any failing RUN executions.
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38New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated.
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42Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are
43changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules.
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47Bugfixes.
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49Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the
50name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be
51exported with the event.
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53Firmware files are looked up in:
54 /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r)
55 /lib/firmware/updates
56 /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)
57 /lib/firmware"
58now.
59
60ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata.
61ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices.
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63udev 143
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65Bugfixes.
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67The configure options have changed because another library needs to be
68installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix,
69libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in
70the README file.
71
1e03b754 72Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
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73the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because
74cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon.
75After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for
76future events, all others get cleaned up.
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78To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
26812f0a 79Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev.
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c406de19 81The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is
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82no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be
83accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv.
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85Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on,
86incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version.
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88To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will
89build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy
90is available here:
91 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
92
8fac66c9 93The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main
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94udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and
95they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras.
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99Bugfixes.
100
634ffc0c 101The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the
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102repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng
103package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the
104util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid
105can not be used with udev.
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107Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages
108to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be
109installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters
110match on the <subsytem>:<devtype> properties of the device.
111 This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current
634ffc0c 112users over to directly use libudev.
aa1aa46f 113 Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might
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114eventually change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported
115interface are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen
116soon.
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118A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
119is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at
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120startup. It should still be able to boot-up, but advanced rules and system
121services which depend on the information not available in the old sysfs
122format will fail to work correctly.
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124DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. In case older kernels
125need to be supported, the old shell script should be added to a compat
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126rules file.
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128udev 141
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130Bugfixes.
131
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132The processed udev events get send back to the netlink socket. Libudev
133provides access to these events. This is work-in-progress, to replace
134the DeviceKit daemon functionality directly with libudev. There are
135upcoming kernel changes to allow non-root users to subcribe to these
136events.
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140Bugfixes.
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142"udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for,
143instead of waiting for "all" events.
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145udev 139
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147Bugfixes.
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149The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed
150during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev
151rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished
152event handling the watch is restored.
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e8c84c98 156Bugfixes.
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158Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch".
159If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur.
160/dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated.
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164Bugfixes.
165
166The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks
167are always updated with a test run now.
168
5f03ed8a 169The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user
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170and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems) or --resolve-names=late to
171lookup user and groups every time events are handled.
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175Bugfixes.
176
1aa8fdf7 177We are currently merging the Ubuntu rules in the udev default rules,
67c89548 178and get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup, regarding
1aa8fdf7 179device names, symlinks, and default device permissions. On udev startup,
67c89548 180we now expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids with
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181glibc's getgrnam():
182 disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
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183LDAP setups need to make sure, that these groups are always resolvable at
184bootup, with only the rootfs mounted, and without network access available.
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186Some systems may need to add some new, currently not used groups, or need
187to add some users to new groups, but the cost of this change is minimal,
188compared to the pain the current, rather random, differences between the
189various distributions cause for upstream projects and third-party vendors.
190
191In general, "normal" users who log into a machine should never be a member
192of any such group, but the device-access should be managed by dynamic ACLs,
193which get added and removed for the specific users on login/logout and
194session activity/inactivity. These groups are only provided for custom setups,
195and mainly system services, to allow proper privilege separation.
196A video-streaming daemon uid would be a member of "audio" and "video", to get
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197access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user should ever belong
198to the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with
67c89548 199any ssh-session established from the other side of the world.
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201/dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices,
202which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique
203devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real
204USB serial number in the device - are always found with the same
205name in the by-id/ directory.
5fadcc76 206Completely identical devices may overwrite their names in by-id/
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207and can only be found reliably in the by-path/ directory. Devices
208specified by by-path/ must not change their connection, like the
209USB port number they are plugged in, to keep their name.
210
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211To support some advanced features, Linux 2.6.22 is the oldest supported
212version now. The kernel config with enabled SYSFS_DEPRECATED is no longer
213supported. Older kernels should still work, and devices nodes should be
214reliably created, but some rules and libudev will not work correctly because
215the old kernels do not provide the expected information or interfaces.
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219Bugfixes.
220
221Fix for a possible segfault while swapping network interface names in udev
222versions 131-134.
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226Bugfixes.
227
228The group "video" is part of the default rules now.
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232Bugfix for kernels using SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option and finding parent
233block devices in some cases. No common distro uses this option anymore,
234and we do not get enough testing for this and recent udev versions. If
235this option is not needed to run some old distro with a new kernel,
236it should be disabled in the kernel config.
237
238Bugfix for the $links substitution variable, which may crash if no links
239are created. This should not happen in usual setups because we always
240create /dev/{block,char}/ links.
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242The strings of the parsed rules, which are kept in memory, no longer
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243contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This, and the
244new rules parsing/matching code reduces the total in-memory size of
245a huge distro rule sets to 0.08 MB, compared to the 1.2MB of udev
246version 130.
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248The export of DEVTYPE=disk/partition got removed from the default
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249rules. This value is available from the kernel. The pnp shell script
250modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. ACPI devices have _proper_
251modalias support and take care of the same functionality.
fc0d4bd4 252Installations which support old kernels, but install current default
4dfe61c9 253udev rules may want to add that to the compat rules file.
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510af2e9 255Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not
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256stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe",
257and if any other filesytem type matches at the same time, libvolume_id
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258will, by default, not return any probing result. This is intended to prevent
259mis-detection with conflicting left-over signatures found from earlier
260file system formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order
261in case of multiple competing signatures. In some setups the kernel allows
262to mount a volume with just the old filesystem signature still in place.
263This may damage the new filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting
264it. Because volume_id can not decide which one the correct signature is,
265the wrong signatures need to be removed manually from the volume, or the
266volume needs to be reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible
267auto-mounting.
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271Fix segfault if compiled without optimization and dbg() does not get
272compiled out and uses variables which are not available.
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acae628f 276Bugfixes. (And maybe new bugs. :))
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278The rule matching engine got converted from a rule list to a token
279array which reduced the in-memory rules representation of a full
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280featured distros with thousends of udev rules from 1.2MB to 0.12 MB.
281Limits like 5 ENV and ATTR matches, and one single instance for most
282other keys per rule are gone.
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284The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign
285a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual
286for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final
287assignment with NAME:="<value>".
288
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289All udev code now uses libudev, which is also exported. The library
290is still under development, marked as experimental, and its interface
291may change as long as the DeviceKit integration is not finished.
292
293Many thanks to Alan Jenkins for his continuous help, and finding and
294optimizing some of the computing expensive parts.
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298Bugfixes.
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300Kernel devices and device nodes are connected now by reverse indizes in
301/sys and /dev. A device number retrieved by a stat() or similar, the
302kernel device directory can be found by looking up:
303 /sys/dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min>
304and the device node of the same device by looking up:
305 /dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min>
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309Fix recently introduced bug, which caused a compilation without large
310file support, where vol_id does not recognize raid signatures at the end
311of a volume.
312
313Firewire disks now create both, by-id/scsi-* and by-id/ieee-* links.
314Seems some kernel versions prevent the creation of the ieee-* links,
315so people used the scsi-* link which disappeared now.
316
317More libudev work. Almost all udevadm functionality comes from libudev
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318now.
319
d41b956e 320udevadm trigger has a new option --type, which allows to trigger events
8249e04e 321for "devices", for "subsystems", or "failed" devices. The old option
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322--retry-failed" still works, but is no longer mentioned in the man page.
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326Bugfixes.
327
328The udevadm info --device-id-of-file= output has changed to use
329the obvious format. Possible current users should use the --export
330option which is not affected.
331
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332The old udev commands symlinks to udevadm are not installed, if
333these symlinks are used, a warning is printed.
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337Bugfixes.
338
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339Optical drive's media is no longer probed for raid signatures,
340reading the end of the device causes some devices to malfunction.
341Also the offset of the last session found is used now to probe
342for the filesystem.
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344The volume_id library got a major version number update to 1,
345some deprecated functions are removed.
346
41ff8053 347A shared library "libudev" gets installed now to provide access
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348to udev device information. DeviceKit, the successor of HAL, will
349need this library to access the udev database and search sysfs for
350devices.
ba6929f6 351The library is currently in an experimental state, also the API is
a689165b 352expected to change, as long as the DeviceKit integration is not
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357We use ./configure now. See INSTALL for details. Current
358options are:
359 --prefix=
360 "/usr" - prefix for man pages, include files
361 --exec-prefix=
362 "" - the root filesystem, prefix for libs and binaries
363 --sysconfdir=
364 "/etc"
365 --with-libdir-name=
366 "lib" - directory name for libraries, not a path name
367 multilib 64bit systems may use "lib64" instead of "lib"
368 --enable-debug
369 compile-in verbose debug messages
370 --disable-logging
371 disable all logging and compile-out all log strings
47b0c350 372 --with-selinux
58a63088 373 link against SELInux libraries, to set the expected context
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374 for created files
375
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376In the default rules, the group "disk" gets permissions 0660 instead
377of 0640. One small step closer to unify distro rules. Some day, all
378distros hopefully end up with the same set of rules.
379
380No symlinks to udevadm are installed anymore, if they are still needed,
381they should be provided by the package.
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385Bugfixes.
386
387Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should
388be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private to
389the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up rule
390files from:
391 /lib/udev/rules.d/ - default installed rules
392 /etc/udev/rules.d/ - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules
393 /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after bootup
394It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are sorted
395in lexical order.
396
397To help creating /dev/root, we have now:
398 $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix="ROOT_" --device-id-of-file=/
399 ROOT_MAJOR=8
400 ROOT_MINOR=5
401In case the current --device-id-of-file is already used, please switch to
402the --export format version, it saves the output parsing and the old
403format will be changed to use ':' as a separator, like the format in the
404sysfs 'dev' file.
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408Fix cdrom_id to properly recognize blank media.
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412Bugfixes.
413
414Tape drive id-data is queried from /dev/bsg/* instead of the tape
415nodes. This avoids rewinding tapes on open().
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419Bugfixes.
420
421The symlinks udevcontrol and udevtrigger are no longer installed by
422the Makefile.
423
424The scsi_id program does not depend on sysfs anymore. It can speak
425SGv4 now, so /dev/bsg/* device nodes can be used, to query SCSI device
426data, which should solve some old problems with tape devices, where
427we better do not open all tape device nodes to identify the device.
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431Many bugfixes.
432
433The cdrom_id program is replaced by an advanced version, which can
434detect most common device types, and also properties of the inserted
435media. This is part of moving some basic functionality from HAL into
436udev (and the kernel).
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440Bugfixes.
441
442The last WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rule is removed from the default rules.
443
444The symlinks to udevadm for the debugging tools: udevmonitor and
445udevtest are no longer created.
446
447The symlinks to the udevadm man page for the old tool names are
448no longer created.
449
450Abstract namespace sockets paths in RUN+="socket:@<path>" rules,
451should be prefixed with '@' to indicate that the path is not a
452real file.
453
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456Bugfixes.
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461
462Udevstart is removed from the tree, it did not get installed for
463a long time now, and is long replaced by trigger and settle.
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467Bugfixes.
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469All udev tools are merged into a single binary called udevadm.
470The old names of the tools are built-in commands in udevadm now.
471Symlinks to udevadm, with the names of the old tools, provide
472the same functionality as the standalone tools. There is also
473only a single udevadm.8 man page left for all tools.
474
475Tools like mkinitramfs should be checked, if they need to include
476udevadm in the list of files.
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480Bugfixes.
481
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484Bugfixes.
485
486The etc/udev/rules.d/ directory now contains a default set of basic
487udev rules. This initial version is the result of a rules file merge
488of Fedora and openSUSE. For these both distros only a few specific
489rules are left in their own file, named after the distro. Rules which
490are optionally installed, because they are only valid for a specific
491architecture, or rules for subsystems which are not always used are
492in etc/udev/packages/.
493
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496Bugfixes.
497
498Dynamic rules can be created in /dev/.udev/rules.d/ to trigger
499actions by dynamically created rules.
500
501SYMLINK=="<value>" matches agains the entries in the list of
502currently defined symlinks. The links are not created in the
503filesystem at that point in time, but the values can be matched.
504
505RUN{ignore_error}+="<program>" will ignore any exit code from the
506program and not record as a failed event.
507
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510Bugfixes.
511
512Final merge of patches/features from the Ubuntu package.
513
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516Bugfixes.
517
518Control characters in filesystem label strings are no longer silenty
519removed, but hex-encoded, to be able to uniquely identify the device
520by its symlink in /dev/disk/by-label/.
521If libvolume_id is used by mount(8), LABEL= will work as expected,
522if slashes or other characters are used in the label string.
523
524To test the existence of a file, TEST=="<file>" and TEST!="<file>"
525can be specified now. The TEST key accepts an optional mode mask
526TEST{0100}=="<is executable file>".
527
528Scsi_id now supports a mode without expecting scsi-specific sysfs
529entries to allow the extraction of cciss-device persistent properties.
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533Bugfixes.
534
535In the future, we may see uuid's which are just simple character
536strings (see the DDF Raid Specification). For that reason vol_id now
83a4c0f8 537exports ID_FS_UUID_SAFE, just like ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE. For things like
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538the creation of symlinks, the *_SAFE values ensure, that no control
539or whitespace characters are used in the filename.
540
541Possible users of libvolume_id, please use the volume_id_get_* functions.
542The public struct will go away in a future release of the library.
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546Bugfixes.
547
548Removal of useless extras/eventrecorder.sh.
549
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552Bugfixes.
553
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556Bugfixes.
557
558The directory multiplexer for dev.d/ and hotplug.d are finally removed
559from the udev package.
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563Bugfixes.
564
565Symlinks can have priorities now, the priority is assigned to the device
566and specified with OPTIONS="link_priority=100". Devices with higher
567priorities overwrite the symlinks of devices with lower priorities.
568If the device that currently owns the link, goes away, the symlink
569will be removed, and recreated, pointing to the next device with the
570highest actual priority. This should make /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid,id}
571more reliable, if multiple devices contain the same metadata and overwrite
572these symlinks.
573
574The dasd_id program is removed from the udev tree, and dasdinfo, with the
575needed rules, are part of the s390-tools now.
576
577Please add KERNEL=="[0-9]*:[0-9]*" to the scsi wait-for-sysfs rule,
578we may get the scsi sysfs mess fixed some day, and this will only catch
579the devices we are looking for.
580
581USB serial numbers for storage devices have the target:lun now appended,
582to make it possibble to distinguish broken multi-lun devices with all
583the same SCSI identifiers.
584
585Note: The extra "run_directory" which searches and executes stuff in
586/etc/hotplug.d/ and /etc/dev.d/ is long deprecated, and will be removed
587with the next release. Make sure, that you don't use it anymore, or
588provides your own implementation of that inefficient stuff.
589We are tired of reports about a "slow udev", because these directories
590contain stuff, that runs with _every_ event, instead of using rules,
591that run programs only for the matching events.
592
593udev 106
594========
595Bugfixes.
596
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600
601DRIVER== will match only for devices that actually have a real
602driver. DRIVERS== must be used, if parent devices should be
603included in the match.
604
605Libvolume_id's "linux_raid" detection needed another fix.
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608========
609Bugfixes.
610
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612========
613Add additional check to volume_id detection of via_raid, cause
614some company decided to put a matching pattern all over the empty
615storage area of their music players.
616
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618========
619Fix path_id for SAS devices.
620
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622========
623The udev daemon can be started with --debug-trace now, which will
624execute all events serialized to get a chance to catch a possible
625action that crashes the box.
626
627A warning is logged, if PHYSDEV* keys, the "device" link, or a parent
628device attribute like $attr{../file} is used, only WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rules
629are excluded from the warning. Referencing parent attributes directly
630may break when something in the kernel driver model changes. Udev will
631just find the attribute by walking up the parent chain.
632
633Udevtrigger now sorts the list of devices depending on the device
634dependency, so a "usb" device is triggered after the parent "pci"
635device.
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638========
639Revert persistent-storage ata-serial '_' '-' replacement.
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642========
643Bugfixes.
644
645Udevtrigger can now filter the list of devices to be triggered. Matches
646for subsystems or sysfs attributes can be specified.
647
648The entries in /dev/.udev/queue and /dev/.udev/failed have changed to
649zero-sized files to avoid pointing to /sys and confuse broken tools which
650scan the /dev directory. To retry failed events, udevtrigger --retry-failed
651should be used now.
652
653The rules and scripts to create udev rules for persistent network
654devices and optical drives are in the extras/rules_generator directory
655now. If you use something similar, please consider replacing your own
656version with this, to share the support effort. The rule_generator
657installs its own rules into /etc/udev/rules.d.
658
659The cdrom_id tool installs its own rule now in /etc/udev/rules.d, cause
660the rule_generator depends on cdrom_id to be called in an earlier rule.
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663========
664Bugfixes.
665
666Renaming of some key names (the old names still work):
667BUS -> SUBSYSTEMS, ID -> KERNELS, SYSFS -> ATTRS, DRIVER -> DRIVERS.
668(The behavior of the key DRIVER will change soon in one of the next
669releases, to match only the event device, please switch to DRIVERS
670instead. If DRIVER is used, it will behave like DRIVERS, but an error
671is logged.
672With the new key names, we have a more consistent and simpler scheme.
673We can match the properties of the event device only, with: KERNEL,
674SUBSYSTEM, ATTR, DRIVER. Or include all the parent devices in the match,
675with: KERNELS, SUBSYSTEMS, ATTRS, DRIVERS. ID, BUS, SYSFS, DRIVER are no
676longer mentioned in the man page and should be switched in the rule
677files.
678
679ATTR{file}="value" can be used now, to write to a sysfs file of the
680event device. Instead of:
681 ..., SYSFS{type}=="0|7|14", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 60 > /sys$$DEVPATH/timeout'"
682we now can do:
683 ..., ATTR{type}=="0|7|14", ATTR{timeout}="60"
684
685All the PHYSDEV* keys are deprecated and will be removed from a
686future kernel:
687 PHYDEVPATH - is the path of a parent device and should not be
688 needed at all.
689 PHYSDEVBUS - is just a SUBSYSTEM value of a parent, and can be
690 matched with SUBSYSTEMS==
691 PHYSDEVDRIVER - for bus devices it is available as ENV{DRIVER}.
692 Newer kernels will have DRIVER in the environment,
693 for older kernels udev puts in. Class device will
694 no longer carry this property of a parent and
695 DRIVERS== can be used to match such a parent value.
696Note that ENV{DRIVER} is only available for a few bus devices, where
697the driver is already bound at device event time. On coldplug, the
698events for a lot devices are already bound to a driver, and they will have
699that value set. But on hotplug, at the time the kernel creates the device,
700it can't know what driver may claim the device after that, therefore
701in most cases it will be empty.
702
703Failed events should now be re-triggered with:
704 udevtrigger --retry-failed.
705Please switch to this command, so we keep the details of the /dev/.udev/failed/
706files private to the udev tools. We may need to switch the current symlink
707target, cause some obviously broken tools try to scan all files in /dev
708including /dev/.udev/, find the links to /sys and end up stat()'ing sysfs files
709million times. This takes ages on slow boxes.
710
711The udevinfo attribute walk (-a) now works with giving a device node
712name (-n) instead of a devpath (-p). The query now always works, also when
713no database file was created by udev.
714
715The built-in /etc/passwd /etc/group parser is removed, we always depend on
716getpwnam() and getgrnam() now. One of the next releases will depend on
717fnmatch() and may use getopt_long().
718
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720========
721Bugfixes and small improvements.
722
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724========
be31371f 725Fix path_id for recent kernels.
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728========
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731Added support for swapping network interface names, by temporarily
732renaming the device and wait for the target name to become free.
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735========
736The built-in MODALIAS key and substitution is removed.
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739========
740The binary firmware helper is replaced by the usual simple
741shell script. Udevsend is removed from the tree.
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744========
745Bugfix release.
746
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748========
749Some more keys require the correct use of '==' and '=' depending
750on the kind of operation beeing an assignment or a match. Rules
751with invalid operations are skipped and logged to syslog. Please
752test with udevtest if the parsing of your rules throws errors and
753fix possibly broken rules.
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756========
757Provide "udevsettle" to wait for all current udev events to finish.
758It also watches the current kernel netlink queue by comparing the
759even sequence number to make sure that there are no current pending
760events that have not already arrived in the daemon.
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763========
764Fix rule to skip persistent rules for removable IDE devices, which
765also skipped optical IDE drives.
766
767All *_id program are installed in /lib/udev/ by default now.
768
769No binary is stripped anymore as this should be done in the
770packaging process and not at build time.
771
772libvolume_id is provided as a shared library now and vol_id is
773linked against it. Also one of the next HAL versions will require
774this library, and the HAL build process will also require the
775header file to be installed. The copy of the same code in HAL will
776be removed to have only a single copy left on the system.
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779========
780Add persistent links for SCSI tapes. The rules file is renamed
781to 60-persistent-storage.rules.
782
783Create persistent path for usb devices. Can be used for all sorts
784of devices that can't be distinguished by other properties like
785multiple identical keyboards and mice connected to the same box.
786
787Provide "udevtrigger" program to request events on coldplug. The
788shell script is much too slow with thousends of devices.
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791========
792Fix persistent disk rules to exclude removable IDE drives.
793
794Warn if %e, $modalias or MODALIAS is used.
795
796udev 086
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798Fix queue export, which wasn't correct for subsequent add/remove
799events for the same device.
800
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802========
803Fix cramfs detection on big endian.
804
805Make WAIT_FOR_SYSFS usable in "normal" rules and silent if the whole
806device goes away.
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809========
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812by BUS requested subsystem. Fix it to also look at the device we
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814
815Build variable CROSS has changed to CROSS_COMPILE to match the kernel
816build name.
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820Fix a bug where NAME="" would prevent RUN from beeing executed.
821
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36af2ddc 823as the first parameter. This is from the days of /sbin/hotplug
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825the end of the program name to prevent this.
826If you use rules that need the subsystem as the first parameter,
827like the old "udev_run_hotlugd" and "udev_run_devd", add the subsystem
828to the key like RUN+="/bin/program $env{SUBSYSTEM}".
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831========
b3e8c12b 832The udev man page has moved to udev(7) as it does not describe a command
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834by default and must be copied manually, if they should be installed or
835included in a package.
836
837Fix a bug where "ignore_device" could run earlier collected RUN keys before
838the ignore rule was applied.
839
840More preparation for future sysfs changes. usb_id and scsi_id no longer
841depend on a magic order of devices in the /devices chain. Specific devices
842should be requested by their subsytem.
843
844This will always find the scsi parent device without depending on a specific
845path position:
846 dev = sysfs_device_get(devpath);
847 dev_usb = sysfs_device_get_parent_with_subsystem(dev, "scsi");
848
849The "device" link in the current sysfs layout will be automatically
850_resolved_ as a parent and in the new sysfs layout it will just _be_ the
851parent in the devpath. If a device is requested by it's symlink, like all
852class devices in the new sysfs layout will look like, it gets automatically
853resolved and substituted with the real devpath and not the symlink path.
854
855Note:
856A similar logic must be applied to _all_ sysfs users, including
857scripts, that search along parent devices in sysfs. The explicit use of
858the "device" link must be avoided. With the future sysfs layout all
859DEVPATH's will start with /devices/ and have a "subsystem" symlink poiting
860back to the "class" or the "bus". The layout of the parent devices in
861/devices is not necessarily expected to be stable across kernel releases and
862searching for parents by their subsystem should make sysfs users tolerant
863for changed parent chains.
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867Prepare udev to work with the experimental kernel patch, that moves
868/sys/class devices to /sys/devices and /sys/block to /sys/class/block.
869
870Clarify BUS, ID, $id usage and fix $id behavior. This prepares for
871moving the class devices to /sys/devices.
872
873Thanks again to Marco for help finding a hopefully nice compromise
874to make %b simpler and working again.
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878Complete removal of libsysfs, replaced by simple helper functions
879which are much simpler and a bit faster. The udev daemon operatesentirely
880on event parameters and does not use sysfs for simple rules anymore.
881Please report any new bugs/problems, that may be caused by this big
882change. They will be fixed immediately.
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885removed sometimes from a future udev version. It never worked correctly
886outside of udevstart, so we can't use it with the new parallel
887coldplug. A simple enumeration is as useless as the devfs naming
888scheme, just get rid of both if you still use it.
889
890MODALIAS and $modalias is not needed and will be removed from one of
891the next udev versions, replace it in all rules with ENV{MODALIAS} or
892the sysfs "modalias" value.
893
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897========
898Let scsi_id request libata drive serial numbers from page 0x80.
899
900Renamed etc/udev/persistent.rules to persistent-disk.rules and
901added /dev/disk/by-name/* for device mapper device names.
902
903Removed %e from the man page. It never worked reliably outside
904of udevstart and udevstart is no longer recommended to use.
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908Symlinks are now exported to the event environment. Hopefully it's no
909longer needed to run udevinfo from an event process, like it was
910mentioned on the hotplug list:
911 UDEV [1134776873.702967] add@/block/sdb
912 ...
913 DEVNAME=/dev/sdb
914 DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-IBM_Memory_Key_0218B301030027E8 /dev/disk/by-path/usb-0218B301030027E8:0:0:0
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918Fix a problem if udevsend is used as the hotplug handler and tries to use
919syslog, which causes a "vc" event loop. 2.6.15 will make udevsend obsolete
920and this kind of problems will hopefully go away soon.
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924All built-in logic to work around bad sysfs timing is removed with this
925version. The need to wait for sysfs files is almost fixed with a kernel
926version that doesn't work with this udev version anyway. Until we fix
927the timing of the "bus" link creation, the former integrated logic should
928be emulated by a rule placed before all other rules:
929 ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus"
930
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932/$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this
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935this hardcoded path. But remember _all_content_ of this directory is
936still private to udev and can change at any time.
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939Everything that is not useful on the commandline should go into this
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941now. The rules need to be changed, to find the helpers there.
942
943Also /lib/udev/devices is recommended as a directory where packages or
944the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over to /dev at
945every boot. This should replace the various solutions with custom config
946files.
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949the init script that prepares /dev on tmpfs and creates the initial nodes,
950before starting the daemon.
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955emulation.
956
a8349b33 957The copy of klibc is removed. A systemwide installed version of klibc
ef0cd1ac 958should be used to build a klibc udev now.
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962NAME="" will not create any nodes, but execute RUN keys. To completely
963ignore an event the OPTION "ignore_device" should be used.
964
965After removal of the reorder queue, events with a TIMEOUT can be executed
966without any queuing now.
967
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969========
970Fixed bug in udevd, if inotify is not available. We depend on netlink
971uevents now, kernels without that event source will not work with that
972version of udev anymore.
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976The rule parsing happens now in the daemon once at startup, all udev
977event processes inherit the already parsed rules from the daemon.
978It is shipped with SUSE10.0 and reduces heavily the system load at
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980pick the them up is removed, as it's no longer needed.
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983device. Libsysfs is changed to "translate" the requested link into the
984real device path, as it would happen with the hotplug event. Otherwise
985device removal and the udev database will not work.
986
987Using 'make STRIPCMD=' will leave the binaries unstripped for debugging
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989
990A few improvements for vol_id, the filesytem probing code.
991
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993========
994Fix a stupid typo in extras/run_directory for "make install".
995
996scsi_id creates the temporary devnode now in /dev for usage with a
997non-writable /tmp directory.
998
999The uevent kernel socket buffer can carry app. 50.000 events now,
1000let's see who can break this again. :)
1001
1002The upcoming kernel will have a new input driver core integration.
1003Some class devices are now symlinks to the real device. libsysfs
1004needs a fix for this to work correctly. Udevstart of older udev
1005versions will _not_ create these devices!
1006
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1008========
1009Fix a 'install' target in the Makefile, that prevents EXTRAS from
1010beeing installed.
1011
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1014A bunch of mostly trivial bugfixes. From now on no node name or
1015symlink name can contain any character than plain whitelisted ascii
1016characters or validated utf8 byte-streams. This is needed for the
e688ad2d 1017/dev/disk/by-label/* links, because we import untrusted data and
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1021========
1022More bugfixes. If udevd was started from the kernel, we don't
1023have stdin/stdout/stderr, which broke the forked tools in some
1024situations.
1025
1026udev 067
1027========
1028Bugfix. udevstart event ordering was broken for a long time.
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1031Now udevstart should create it before we run anything.
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1034========
1035Minor bugfixes and some distro rules updates. If you don't have the
1036persistent disk rules in /dev/disk/by-*/* on your distro, just
1037grab it from here. :)
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1040========
1041We can use socket communication now to pass events from udev to
1042other programs:
1043 RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event"
1044will pass the whole udev event to the HAL daemon without the need
1045for a forked helper. (See ChangeLog for udevmonitor, as an example)
1046
1047udev 064
1048========
1049Mostly bugfixes and see ChangeLog.
1050
1051The test for the existence of an environment value should be
1052switched from:
1053 ENV{KEY}=="*" to ENV{KEY}=="?*"
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1056
1057udev 063
1058========
1059Bugfixes and a few tweaks described in the ChangeLog.
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1062========
1063Mostly a Bugfix release.
1064
1065Added WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="<attribute>" to be able to fight against the sysfs
1066timing with custom rules.
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1070We changed the internal rule storage format. Our large rule files took
10712 MB of RAM, with the change we are down to 99kB.
1072
1073If the device-node has been created with default name and no symlink or
1074options are to remenber, it is not longer stored in the udevdb. HAL will
1075need to be updated to work correctly with that change.
1076
1077To overrride optimization flags, OPTFLAGS may be used now.
1078
1079udev 060
1080========
1081Bugfix release.
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1084========
1085Major changes happened with this release. The goal is to take over the
1086complete kernel-event handling and provide a more efficient way to dispatch
1087kernel events. Replacing most of the current shell script logic and the
1088kernel forked helper with a netlink-daemon and a rule-based event handling.
1089
1090o udevd listens to netlink events now. The first valid netlink event
1091 will make udevd ignore any message from udevsend that contains a
1092 SEQNUM, to avoid duplicate events. The forked events can be disabled
1093 with:
1094 echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
1095 For full support, the broken input-subsytem needs to be fixed, not to
1096 bypass the driver core.
1097
1098o /etc/dev.d/ + /etc/hotplug.d/ directory multiplexing is completely
1099 removed from udev itself and must be emulated by calling small
1100 helper binaries provided in the extras folder:
1101 make EXTRAS=extras/run_directory/
1102 will build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd, which can be called
1103 from a rule if needed:
1104 RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd"
1105 The recommended way to handle this is to convert all the calls from
1106 the directories to explicit udev rules and get completely rid of the
1107 multiplexing. (To catch a ttyUSB event, you now no longer need to
1108 fork and exit 300 tty script instances you are not interested in, it
1109 is just one rule that matches exactly the device.)
1110
1111o udev handles now _all_ events not just events for class and block
1112 devices, this way it is possible to control the complete event
1113 behavior with udev rules. Especially useful for rules like:
1114 ACTION="add", DEVPATH="/devices/*", MODALIAS=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias"
1115
1116o As used in the modalias rule, udev supports now textual
1117 substitution placeholder along with the usual format chars. This
1118 needs to be documented, for now it's only visible in udev_rules_parse.c.
1119
1120o The rule keys support now more operations. This is documented in the
1121 man page. It is possible to add values to list-keys like the SYMLINK
1122 and RUN list with KEY+="value" and to clear the list by assigning KEY="".
1123 Also "final"-assignments are supported by using KEY:="value", which will
1124 prevent changing the key by any later rule.
1125
1126o kernel 2.6.12 has the "detached_state" attribute removed from
1127 sysfs, which was used to recognize sysfs population. We switched that
1128 to wait for the "bus" link, which is only available in kernels after 2.6.11.
1129 Running this udev version on older kernels may cause a short delay for
1130 some events.
1131
1132o To provide infrastructure for persistent device naming, the id programs:
1133 scsi_id, vol_id (former udev_volume_id), and ata_id (new) are able now
1134 to export the probed data in environment key format:
1135 pim:~ # /sbin/ata_id --export /dev/hda
1136 ID_MODEL=HTS726060M9AT00
1137 ID_SERIAL=MRH401M4G6UM9B
1138 ID_REVISION=MH4OA6BA
1139
1140 The following rules:
1141 KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", IMPORT="/sbin/ata_id --export $tempnode"
1142 KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_MODEL}_$env{ID_SERIAL}"
1143
1144 Will create:
1145 kay@pim:~> tree /dev/disk
1146 /dev/disk
1147 |-- by-id
1148 | |-- HTS726060M9AT00_MRH401M4G6UM9B -> ../../hda
1149 | `-- IBM-Memory_Key -> ../../sda
1150 |-- by-label
1151 | |-- swap -> ../../hda1
1152 | |-- date -> ../../sda1
1153 | `-- home -> ../../hda3
1154 `-- by-uuid
1155 |-- 2E08712B0870F2E7 -> ../../hda3
1156 |-- 9352cfef-7687-47bc-a2a3-34cf136f72e1 -> ../../hda1
1157 |-- E845-7A89 -> ../../sda1
1158 `-- b2a61681-3812-4f13-a4ff-920d70604299 -> ../../hda2
1159
1160 The IMPORT= operation will import these keys in the environment and make
1161 it available for later PROGRAM= and RUN= executed programs. The keys are
1162 also stored in the udevdb and can be queried from there with one of the
1163 next udev versions.
1164
1165o A few binaries are silently added to the repository, which can be used
1166 to replay kernel events from initramfs instead of using coldplug. udevd
1167 can be instructed now to queue-up events while the stored events from
1168 initramfs are filled into the udevd-queue. This code is still under
1169 development and there is no documentation now besides the code itself.
1170 The additional binaries get compiled, but are not installed by default.
1171
1172o There is also a temporary fix for a performance problem where too many
1173 events happen in parallel and every event needs to parse the rules.
1174 udev can now read precompiled rules stored on disk. This is likely to be
1175 replaced by a more elegant solution in a future udev version.
1176
1177udev 058
1178========
1179With kernel version 2.6.12, the sysfs file "detached_state" was removed.
1180Fix for libsysfs not to expect this file was added.
1181
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1183========
e4388fb3 1184All rules are applied now, but only the first matching rule with a NAME-key
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1185will be applied. All later rules with NAME-key are completely ignored. This
1186way system supplied symlinks or permissions gets applied to user-defined
1187naming rules.
1188
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1190Please check your rules setup, if you may need to add OPTIONS="last_rule"
1191to some rules, to keep the old behavior.
1192
1193The rules are read on "remove"-events too. That makes is possible to match
1194with keys that are available on remove (KERNEL, SUBSYSTEM, ID, ENV, ...) to
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1196The new ACTION-key may be used to let a rule act only at a "remove"-event.
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1198The new RUN-key supports rule-based execution of programs after device-node
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1199handling. This is meant as a general replacement for the dev.d/-directories
1200to give fine grained control over the execution of programs.
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1202The %s{}-sysfs format char replacement values are searched at any of the
1203devices in the device chain now, not only at the class-device.
1204
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1205We support log priority levels now. The value udev_log in udev.conf is used
1206to determine what is printed to syslog. This makes it possible to
1207run a version with compiled-in debug messages in a production environment
1208which is sometimes needed to find a bug.
1209It is still possible to supress the inclusion of _any_ syslog usage with
1210USE_LOG=false to create the smallest possible binaries if needed.
1211The configured udev_log value can be overridden with the environment variable
1212UDEV_LOG.
1213
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1215========
1216Possible use of a system-wide klibc:
16eb35d1 1217 make USE_KLIBC=true KLCC=/usr/bin/klcc all
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1219
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1221========
1222We support an unlimited count of symlinks now.
1223
1224If USE_STATIC=true is passed to a glibc build, we link statically and use
1225a built-in userdb parser to resolve user and group names.
1226
e688ad2d 1227The PLACE= key is gone. It can be replaced by an ID= for a long time, because
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1228we walk up the chain of physical devices to find a match.
1229
28ce66de 1230The KEY="<value>" format supports '=', '==', '!=,' , '+=' now. This makes it
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1231easy to skip certain attribute matches without composing rules with weird
1232character class negations like:
28ce66de 1233 KERNEL="[!s][!c][!d]*"
38285d23 1234this can now be replaced with:
28ce66de 1235 KERNEL!="scd*"
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1236The current simple '=' is still supported, and should work as it does today,
1237but existing rules should be converted if possible, to be better readable.
1238
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1240variables.
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e688ad2d 1242udevstart is its own binary again, because we don't need co carry this araound
0e33828a 1243with every forked event.