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1 | udev 152 |
2 | ======== | |
3 | Bugfixes. | |
4 | ||
1f084fe5 | 5 | "udevadm trigger" defaults to "change" events now, instead of "add" |
236fae6c KS |
6 | events. |
7 | ||
1f084fe5 KS |
8 | The option "all_partitons" was removed from udev. This should not be |
9 | needed for usual hardware. Udev can not safely make assumptions | |
10 | about non-exixting partition major/minor numbers, and therefore no | |
11 | longer provide such an unreliable and unsafe option. | |
12 | ||
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13 | All "add|change" matches are replaced by "!remove" in the rules and |
14 | in the udev logic. All types of events will update possible symlinks | |
15 | and permissions, only "remove" is handled special now. | |
16 | ||
17 | The modem mode switch extra was removed and the external usb_modeswitch | |
18 | program should be used instead. | |
19 | ||
fff82e9d KS |
20 | New and fixed keymaps. |
21 | ||
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22 | udev 151 |
23 | ======== | |
eea1fd84 | 24 | Bugfixes. |
a16b18f0 | 25 | |
ac9b4baa KS |
26 | udev 150 |
27 | ======== | |
28 | Bugfixes. | |
29 | ||
3c189886 KS |
30 | Kernels with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y are not supported since a while. Many users |
31 | depend on the current sysfs layout and the information not available in the | |
32 | deprecated layout. All remaining support for the deprecated sysfs layout is | |
33 | removed now. | |
34 | ||
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35 | udev 149 |
36 | ======== | |
37 | Fix for a possible endless loop in the new input_id program. | |
38 | ||
cdae488a KS |
39 | udev 148 |
40 | ======== | |
41 | Bugfixes. | |
42 | ||
43 | The option "ignore_device" does no longer exist. There is no way to | |
44 | ignore an event, as libudev events can not be suppressed by rules. | |
45 | It only prevented RUN keys from being executed, which results in an | |
46 | inconsistent behavior in current setups. | |
47 | ||
6d87ee2e KS |
48 | BUS=, SYSFS{}=, ID= are long deprecated and should be SUBSYSTEM(S)=, |
49 | ATTR(S){}=, KERNEL(S)=. It will cause a warning once for every rule | |
50 | file from now on. | |
51 | ||
ecf61aa7 KS |
52 | The support for the deprecated IDE devices has been removed from the |
53 | default set of rules. Distros who still care about non-libata drivers | |
54 | need to add the rules to the compat rules file. | |
55 | ||
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56 | The ID_CLASS property on input devices has been replaced by the more accurate |
57 | set of flags ID_INPUT_{KEYBOARD,KEY,MOUSE,TOUCHPAD,TABLET,JOYSTICK}. These are | |
58 | determined by the new "input_id" prober now. Some devices, such as touchpads, | |
59 | can have several classes. So if you previously had custom udev rules which e. g. | |
60 | checked for ENV{ID_CLASS}=="kbd", you need to replace this with | |
61 | ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=="?*". | |
62 | ||
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63 | udev 147 |
64 | ======== | |
65 | Bugfixes. | |
66 | ||
2ffc9cc1 KS |
67 | To support DEVPATH strings larger than the maximum file name length, the |
68 | private udev database format has changed. If some software still reads the | |
69 | private files in /dev/.udev/, which it shouldn't, now it's time to fix it. | |
70 | Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev | |
71 | is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without | |
72 | prior notice. | |
73 | ||
6c29f2b9 KS |
74 | Multiple devices claiming the same names in /dev are limited to symlinks |
75 | only now. Mixing identical symlink names and node names is not supported. | |
76 | This reduces the amount of data in the database significantly. | |
77 | ||
2ffc9cc1 KS |
78 | NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous. |
79 | It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed | |
80 | from all rules. | |
81 | ||
91554cf9 KS |
82 | Most NAME= instructions got removed. Kernel 2.6.31 supplies the needed names |
83 | if they are not the default. To support older kernels, the NAME= rules need to | |
84 | be added to the compat rules file. | |
85 | ||
6d837a53 KS |
86 | Symlinks to udevadm with the old command names are no longer resolved to |
87 | the udevadm commands. | |
88 | ||
de408510 | 89 | The udev-acl tool got adopted to changes in ConsoleKit. Version 0.4.1 is |
bded5704 WJM |
90 | required now. |
91 | ||
bfbf65aa KS |
92 | The option "last_rule" does no longer exist. Its use breaks too many |
93 | things which expect to be run from independent later rules, and is an idication | |
94 | that something needs to be fixed properly instead. | |
95 | ||
5448cc56 | 96 | The gudev API is no longer marked as experimental, |
04da95b1 KS |
97 | G_UDEV_API_IS_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE is no longer needed. The gudev introspection |
98 | is enabled by default now. Various projects already depend on introspection | |
99 | information to bind dynamic languages to the gudev interfaces. | |
5448cc56 | 100 | |
2a827c95 KS |
101 | udev 146 |
102 | ======== | |
f7c5b04f KS |
103 | Bugfixes. |
104 | ||
105 | The udevadm trigger "--retry-failed" option, which is replaced since quite | |
106 | a while by "--type=failed" is removed. | |
2a827c95 | 107 | |
f7c5b04f | 108 | The failed tracking was not working at all for a few releases. The RUN |
16dd0aa9 | 109 | option "ignore_error" is replaced by a "fail_event_on_error" option, and the |
f7c5b04f KS |
110 | default is not to track any failing RUN executions. |
111 | ||
112 | New keymaps, new modem, hid2hci updated. | |
2a827c95 | 113 | |
804ab685 KS |
114 | udev 145 |
115 | ======== | |
3d66c90f KS |
116 | Fix possible crash in udevd when worker processes are busy, rules are |
117 | changed at the same time, and workers get killed to reload the rules. | |
804ab685 | 118 | |
c668754b KS |
119 | udev 144 |
120 | ======== | |
d5f1cc16 KS |
121 | Bugfixes. |
122 | ||
d5f1cc16 KS |
123 | Properties set with ENV{.FOO}="bar" are marked private by starting the |
124 | name with a '.'. They will not be stored in the database, and not be | |
125 | exported with the event. | |
c668754b | 126 | |
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127 | Firmware files are looked up in: |
128 | /lib/firmware/updates/$(uname -r) | |
129 | /lib/firmware/updates | |
130 | /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) | |
131 | /lib/firmware" | |
132 | now. | |
133 | ||
134 | ATA devices switched the property from ID_BUS=scsi to ID_BUS=ata. | |
135 | ata_id, instead of scsi_id, is the default tool now for ATA devices. | |
136 | ||
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137 | udev 143 |
138 | ======== | |
139 | Bugfixes. | |
140 | ||
6133f343 KS |
141 | The configure options have changed because another library needs to be |
142 | installed in a different location. Instead of exec_prefix and udev_prefix, | |
143 | libdir, rootlibdir and libexecdir are used. The Details are explained in | |
144 | the README file. | |
145 | ||
1e03b754 | 146 | Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces |
26812f0a KS |
147 | the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because |
148 | cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon. | |
149 | After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for | |
150 | future events, all others get cleaned up. | |
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151 | |
152 | To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now. | |
26812f0a | 153 | Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev. |
1e03b754 | 154 | |
c406de19 | 155 | The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is |
1e03b754 KS |
156 | no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be |
157 | accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv. | |
c406de19 | 158 | |
20fa0fd6 KS |
159 | Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on, |
160 | incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version. | |
161 | ||
26812f0a KS |
162 | To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will |
163 | build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy | |
164 | is available here: | |
165 | http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/ | |
166 | ||
8fac66c9 | 167 | The tools from the udev-extras repository have been merged into the main |
29cf5b58 KS |
168 | udev repository. Some of the extras have larger external dependencies, and |
169 | they can be disabled with the configure switch --disable-extras. | |
170 | ||
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171 | udev 142 |
172 | ======== | |
173 | Bugfixes. | |
174 | ||
634ffc0c | 175 | The program vol_id and the library libvolume_id are removed from the |
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176 | repository. Libvolume_id is merged with libblkid from the util-linux-ng |
177 | package. Persistent disk links for label and uuid depend on the | |
178 | util-linux-ng version (2.15) of blkid now. Older versions of blkid | |
179 | can not be used with udev. | |
f0799688 | 180 | |
aa1aa46f KS |
181 | Libudev allows to subscribe to udev events. To prevent unwanted messages |
182 | to be delivered, and waking up the subscribing process, a filter can be | |
183 | installed, to drop messages inside a kernel socket filter. The filters | |
184 | match on the <subsytem>:<devtype> properties of the device. | |
185 | This is part of the ongoing effort to replace HAL, and switch current | |
634ffc0c | 186 | users over to directly use libudev. |
aa1aa46f | 187 | Libudev is still marked as experimental, and its interface might |
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188 | eventually change if needed, but no major changes of the currently exported |
189 | interface are expected anymore, and a first stable release should happen | |
190 | soon. | |
aa1aa46f | 191 | |
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192 | A too old kernel (2.6.21) or a kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED |
193 | is not supported since while and udevd will log an error message at | |
f0799688 KS |
194 | startup. It should still be able to boot-up, but advanced rules and system |
195 | services which depend on the information not available in the old sysfs | |
196 | format will fail to work correctly. | |
e2151b00 | 197 | |
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198 | DVB device naming is supplied by the kernel now. In case older kernels |
199 | need to be supported, the old shell script should be added to a compat | |
e2151b00 KS |
200 | rules file. |
201 | ||
b25d8cfa KS |
202 | udev 141 |
203 | ======== | |
204 | Bugfixes. | |
205 | ||
dbf4ba73 KS |
206 | The processed udev events get send back to the netlink socket. Libudev |
207 | provides access to these events. This is work-in-progress, to replace | |
208 | the DeviceKit daemon functionality directly with libudev. There are | |
209 | upcoming kernel changes to allow non-root users to subcribe to these | |
210 | events. | |
211 | ||
cb81636a KS |
212 | udev 140 |
213 | ======== | |
214 | Bugfixes. | |
215 | ||
3d859987 KS |
216 | "udevadm settle" now optionally accepts a range of events to wait for, |
217 | instead of waiting for "all" events. | |
218 | ||
58e49543 KS |
219 | udev 139 |
220 | ======== | |
221 | Bugfixes. | |
222 | ||
0ee5a241 KS |
223 | The installed watch for block device metadata changes is now removed |
224 | during event hadling, because some (broken) tools may be called from udev | |
225 | rules and (wrongly) open the device with write access. After the finished | |
226 | event handling the watch is restored. | |
227 | ||
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228 | udev 138 |
229 | ======== | |
e8c84c98 | 230 | Bugfixes. |
705e1c7f | 231 | |
e8c84c98 KS |
232 | Device nodes can be watched for changes with inotify with OPTIONS="watch". |
233 | If closed after being opened for writing, a "change" uevent will occur. | |
234 | /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid}/* symlinks will be automatically updated. | |
f24036d6 | 235 | |
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236 | udev 137 |
237 | ======== | |
238 | Bugfixes. | |
239 | ||
240 | The udevadm test command has no longer a --force option, nodes and symlinks | |
241 | are always updated with a test run now. | |
242 | ||
5f03ed8a | 243 | The udevd daemon can be started with --resolve-names=never to avoid all user |
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244 | and group lookups (e.g. in cut-down systems) or --resolve-names=late to |
245 | lookup user and groups every time events are handled. | |
5f03ed8a | 246 | |
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247 | udev 136 |
248 | ======== | |
249 | Bugfixes. | |
250 | ||
1aa8fdf7 | 251 | We are currently merging the Ubuntu rules in the udev default rules, |
67c89548 | 252 | and get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup, regarding |
1aa8fdf7 | 253 | device names, symlinks, and default device permissions. On udev startup, |
67c89548 | 254 | we now expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids with |
1aa8fdf7 KS |
255 | glibc's getgrnam(): |
256 | disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem. | |
67c89548 KS |
257 | LDAP setups need to make sure, that these groups are always resolvable at |
258 | bootup, with only the rootfs mounted, and without network access available. | |
259 | ||
260 | Some systems may need to add some new, currently not used groups, or need | |
261 | to add some users to new groups, but the cost of this change is minimal, | |
262 | compared to the pain the current, rather random, differences between the | |
263 | various distributions cause for upstream projects and third-party vendors. | |
264 | ||
265 | In general, "normal" users who log into a machine should never be a member | |
266 | of any such group, but the device-access should be managed by dynamic ACLs, | |
267 | which get added and removed for the specific users on login/logout and | |
268 | session activity/inactivity. These groups are only provided for custom setups, | |
269 | and mainly system services, to allow proper privilege separation. | |
270 | A video-streaming daemon uid would be a member of "audio" and "video", to get | |
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271 | access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user should ever belong |
272 | to the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with | |
67c89548 | 273 | any ssh-session established from the other side of the world. |
8553cf06 | 274 | |
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275 | /dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices, |
276 | which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique | |
277 | devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real | |
278 | USB serial number in the device - are always found with the same | |
279 | name in the by-id/ directory. | |
5fadcc76 | 280 | Completely identical devices may overwrite their names in by-id/ |
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281 | and can only be found reliably in the by-path/ directory. Devices |
282 | specified by by-path/ must not change their connection, like the | |
283 | USB port number they are plugged in, to keep their name. | |
284 | ||
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285 | To support some advanced features, Linux 2.6.22 is the oldest supported |
286 | version now. The kernel config with enabled SYSFS_DEPRECATED is no longer | |
287 | supported. Older kernels should still work, and devices nodes should be | |
288 | reliably created, but some rules and libudev will not work correctly because | |
289 | the old kernels do not provide the expected information or interfaces. | |
290 | ||
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291 | udev 135 |
292 | ======== | |
293 | Bugfixes. | |
294 | ||
295 | Fix for a possible segfault while swapping network interface names in udev | |
296 | versions 131-134. | |
297 | ||
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298 | udev 134 |
299 | ======== | |
6733f601 KS |
300 | Bugfixes. |
301 | ||
302 | The group "video" is part of the default rules now. | |
44993482 | 303 | |
fc0d4bd4 KS |
304 | udev 133 |
305 | ======== | |
d78c0b3a KS |
306 | Bugfix for kernels using SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option and finding parent |
307 | block devices in some cases. No common distro uses this option anymore, | |
308 | and we do not get enough testing for this and recent udev versions. If | |
309 | this option is not needed to run some old distro with a new kernel, | |
310 | it should be disabled in the kernel config. | |
311 | ||
312 | Bugfix for the $links substitution variable, which may crash if no links | |
313 | are created. This should not happen in usual setups because we always | |
314 | create /dev/{block,char}/ links. | |
fc0d4bd4 KS |
315 | |
316 | The strings of the parsed rules, which are kept in memory, no longer | |
d78c0b3a KS |
317 | contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This, and the |
318 | new rules parsing/matching code reduces the total in-memory size of | |
319 | a huge distro rule sets to 0.08 MB, compared to the 1.2MB of udev | |
320 | version 130. | |
fc0d4bd4 KS |
321 | |
322 | The export of DEVTYPE=disk/partition got removed from the default | |
d78c0b3a KS |
323 | rules. This value is available from the kernel. The pnp shell script |
324 | modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. ACPI devices have _proper_ | |
325 | modalias support and take care of the same functionality. | |
fc0d4bd4 | 326 | Installations which support old kernels, but install current default |
4dfe61c9 | 327 | udev rules may want to add that to the compat rules file. |
fc0d4bd4 | 328 | |
510af2e9 | 329 | Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not |
4dfe61c9 KS |
330 | stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe", |
331 | and if any other filesytem type matches at the same time, libvolume_id | |
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332 | will, by default, not return any probing result. This is intended to prevent |
333 | mis-detection with conflicting left-over signatures found from earlier | |
334 | file system formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order | |
335 | in case of multiple competing signatures. In some setups the kernel allows | |
336 | to mount a volume with just the old filesystem signature still in place. | |
337 | This may damage the new filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting | |
338 | it. Because volume_id can not decide which one the correct signature is, | |
339 | the wrong signatures need to be removed manually from the volume, or the | |
340 | volume needs to be reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible | |
341 | auto-mounting. | |
510af2e9 | 342 | |
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343 | udev 132 |
344 | ======== | |
bfa9938c KS |
345 | Fix segfault if compiled without optimization and dbg() does not get |
346 | compiled out and uses variables which are not available. | |
347 | ||
2d9a1b1e KS |
348 | udev 131 |
349 | ======== | |
acae628f | 350 | Bugfixes. (And maybe new bugs. :)) |
65807d09 KS |
351 | |
352 | The rule matching engine got converted from a rule list to a token | |
353 | array which reduced the in-memory rules representation of a full | |
acae628f KS |
354 | featured distros with thousends of udev rules from 1.2MB to 0.12 MB. |
355 | Limits like 5 ENV and ATTR matches, and one single instance for most | |
356 | other keys per rule are gone. | |
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357 | |
358 | The NAME assignment is no longer special cased. If later rules assign | |
359 | a NAME value again, the former value will be overwritten. As usual | |
360 | for most other keys, the NAME value can be protected by doing a final | |
361 | assignment with NAME:="<value>". | |
362 | ||
acae628f KS |
363 | All udev code now uses libudev, which is also exported. The library |
364 | is still under development, marked as experimental, and its interface | |
365 | may change as long as the DeviceKit integration is not finished. | |
366 | ||
367 | Many thanks to Alan Jenkins for his continuous help, and finding and | |
368 | optimizing some of the computing expensive parts. | |
2d9a1b1e | 369 | |
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370 | udev 130 |
371 | ======== | |
372 | Bugfixes. | |
373 | ||
ec06a8dd KS |
374 | Kernel devices and device nodes are connected now by reverse indizes in |
375 | /sys and /dev. A device number retrieved by a stat() or similar, the | |
376 | kernel device directory can be found by looking up: | |
377 | /sys/dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min> | |
378 | and the device node of the same device by looking up: | |
379 | /dev/{block,char}/<maj>:<min> | |
380 | ||
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381 | udev 129 |
382 | ======== | |
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383 | Fix recently introduced bug, which caused a compilation without large |
384 | file support, where vol_id does not recognize raid signatures at the end | |
385 | of a volume. | |
386 | ||
387 | Firewire disks now create both, by-id/scsi-* and by-id/ieee-* links. | |
388 | Seems some kernel versions prevent the creation of the ieee-* links, | |
389 | so people used the scsi-* link which disappeared now. | |
390 | ||
391 | More libudev work. Almost all udevadm functionality comes from libudev | |
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392 | now. |
393 | ||
d41b956e | 394 | udevadm trigger has a new option --type, which allows to trigger events |
8249e04e | 395 | for "devices", for "subsystems", or "failed" devices. The old option |
d41b956e KS |
396 | --retry-failed" still works, but is no longer mentioned in the man page. |
397 | ||
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398 | udev 128 |
399 | ======== | |
400 | Bugfixes. | |
401 | ||
402 | The udevadm info --device-id-of-file= output has changed to use | |
403 | the obvious format. Possible current users should use the --export | |
404 | option which is not affected. | |
405 | ||
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406 | The old udev commands symlinks to udevadm are not installed, if |
407 | these symlinks are used, a warning is printed. | |
e4255f11 | 408 | |
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409 | udev 127 |
410 | ======== | |
411 | Bugfixes. | |
412 | ||
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413 | Optical drive's media is no longer probed for raid signatures, |
414 | reading the end of the device causes some devices to malfunction. | |
415 | Also the offset of the last session found is used now to probe | |
416 | for the filesystem. | |
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417 | |
418 | The volume_id library got a major version number update to 1, | |
419 | some deprecated functions are removed. | |
420 | ||
41ff8053 | 421 | A shared library "libudev" gets installed now to provide access |
a689165b KS |
422 | to udev device information. DeviceKit, the successor of HAL, will |
423 | need this library to access the udev database and search sysfs for | |
424 | devices. | |
ba6929f6 | 425 | The library is currently in an experimental state, also the API is |
a689165b | 426 | expected to change, as long as the DeviceKit integration is not |
ba6929f6 KS |
427 | finished. |
428 | ||
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429 | udev 126 |
430 | ======== | |
431 | We use ./configure now. See INSTALL for details. Current | |
432 | options are: | |
433 | --prefix= | |
434 | "/usr" - prefix for man pages, include files | |
435 | --exec-prefix= | |
436 | "" - the root filesystem, prefix for libs and binaries | |
437 | --sysconfdir= | |
438 | "/etc" | |
439 | --with-libdir-name= | |
440 | "lib" - directory name for libraries, not a path name | |
441 | multilib 64bit systems may use "lib64" instead of "lib" | |
442 | --enable-debug | |
443 | compile-in verbose debug messages | |
444 | --disable-logging | |
445 | disable all logging and compile-out all log strings | |
47b0c350 | 446 | --with-selinux |
58a63088 | 447 | link against SELInux libraries, to set the expected context |
01618658 KS |
448 | for created files |
449 | ||
58a63088 KS |
450 | In the default rules, the group "disk" gets permissions 0660 instead |
451 | of 0640. One small step closer to unify distro rules. Some day, all | |
452 | distros hopefully end up with the same set of rules. | |
453 | ||
454 | No symlinks to udevadm are installed anymore, if they are still needed, | |
455 | they should be provided by the package. | |
01618658 | 456 | |
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457 | udev 125 |
458 | ======== | |
459 | Bugfixes. | |
460 | ||
461 | Default udev rules, which are not supposed to be edited by the user, should | |
462 | be placed in /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make it clear that they are private to | |
463 | the udev package and will be replaced with an update. Udev will pick up rule | |
464 | files from: | |
465 | /lib/udev/rules.d/ - default installed rules | |
466 | /etc/udev/rules.d/ - user rules + on-the-fly generated rules | |
467 | /dev/.udev/rules.d/ - temporary non-persistent rules created after bootup | |
468 | It does not matter in which directory a rule file lives, all files are sorted | |
469 | in lexical order. | |
470 | ||
471 | To help creating /dev/root, we have now: | |
472 | $ udevadm info --export --export-prefix="ROOT_" --device-id-of-file=/ | |
473 | ROOT_MAJOR=8 | |
474 | ROOT_MINOR=5 | |
475 | In case the current --device-id-of-file is already used, please switch to | |
476 | the --export format version, it saves the output parsing and the old | |
477 | format will be changed to use ':' as a separator, like the format in the | |
478 | sysfs 'dev' file. | |
479 | ||
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480 | udev 124 |
481 | ======== | |
482 | Fix cdrom_id to properly recognize blank media. | |
483 | ||
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484 | udev 123 |
485 | ======== | |
486 | Bugfixes. | |
487 | ||
488 | Tape drive id-data is queried from /dev/bsg/* instead of the tape | |
489 | nodes. This avoids rewinding tapes on open(). | |
490 | ||
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491 | udev 122 |
492 | ======== | |
493 | Bugfixes. | |
494 | ||
495 | The symlinks udevcontrol and udevtrigger are no longer installed by | |
496 | the Makefile. | |
497 | ||
498 | The scsi_id program does not depend on sysfs anymore. It can speak | |
499 | SGv4 now, so /dev/bsg/* device nodes can be used, to query SCSI device | |
500 | data, which should solve some old problems with tape devices, where | |
501 | we better do not open all tape device nodes to identify the device. | |
502 | ||
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503 | udev 121 |
504 | ======== | |
505 | Many bugfixes. | |
506 | ||
507 | The cdrom_id program is replaced by an advanced version, which can | |
508 | detect most common device types, and also properties of the inserted | |
509 | media. This is part of moving some basic functionality from HAL into | |
510 | udev (and the kernel). | |
511 | ||
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512 | udev 120 |
513 | ======== | |
514 | Bugfixes. | |
515 | ||
516 | The last WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rule is removed from the default rules. | |
517 | ||
518 | The symlinks to udevadm for the debugging tools: udevmonitor and | |
519 | udevtest are no longer created. | |
520 | ||
521 | The symlinks to the udevadm man page for the old tool names are | |
522 | no longer created. | |
523 | ||
524 | Abstract namespace sockets paths in RUN+="socket:@<path>" rules, | |
525 | should be prefixed with '@' to indicate that the path is not a | |
526 | real file. | |
527 | ||
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528 | udev 119 |
529 | ======== | |
530 | Bugfixes. | |
531 | ||
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532 | udev 118 |
533 | ======== | |
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534 | Bugfixes. |
535 | ||
536 | Udevstart is removed from the tree, it did not get installed for | |
537 | a long time now, and is long replaced by trigger and settle. | |
c645b98b | 538 | |
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539 | udev 117 |
540 | ======== | |
541 | Bugfixes. | |
542 | ||
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543 | All udev tools are merged into a single binary called udevadm. |
544 | The old names of the tools are built-in commands in udevadm now. | |
545 | Symlinks to udevadm, with the names of the old tools, provide | |
546 | the same functionality as the standalone tools. There is also | |
547 | only a single udevadm.8 man page left for all tools. | |
548 | ||
549 | Tools like mkinitramfs should be checked, if they need to include | |
550 | udevadm in the list of files. | |
225cb03b | 551 | |
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552 | udev 116 |
553 | ======== | |
554 | Bugfixes. | |
555 | ||
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556 | udev 115 |
557 | ======== | |
558 | Bugfixes. | |
559 | ||
560 | The etc/udev/rules.d/ directory now contains a default set of basic | |
561 | udev rules. This initial version is the result of a rules file merge | |
562 | of Fedora and openSUSE. For these both distros only a few specific | |
563 | rules are left in their own file, named after the distro. Rules which | |
564 | are optionally installed, because they are only valid for a specific | |
565 | architecture, or rules for subsystems which are not always used are | |
566 | in etc/udev/packages/. | |
567 | ||
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568 | udev 114 |
569 | ======== | |
570 | Bugfixes. | |
571 | ||
572 | Dynamic rules can be created in /dev/.udev/rules.d/ to trigger | |
573 | actions by dynamically created rules. | |
574 | ||
575 | SYMLINK=="<value>" matches agains the entries in the list of | |
576 | currently defined symlinks. The links are not created in the | |
577 | filesystem at that point in time, but the values can be matched. | |
578 | ||
579 | RUN{ignore_error}+="<program>" will ignore any exit code from the | |
580 | program and not record as a failed event. | |
581 | ||
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582 | udev 113 |
583 | ======== | |
584 | Bugfixes. | |
585 | ||
586 | Final merge of patches/features from the Ubuntu package. | |
587 | ||
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588 | udev 112 |
589 | ======== | |
590 | Bugfixes. | |
591 | ||
592 | Control characters in filesystem label strings are no longer silenty | |
593 | removed, but hex-encoded, to be able to uniquely identify the device | |
594 | by its symlink in /dev/disk/by-label/. | |
595 | If libvolume_id is used by mount(8), LABEL= will work as expected, | |
596 | if slashes or other characters are used in the label string. | |
597 | ||
598 | To test the existence of a file, TEST=="<file>" and TEST!="<file>" | |
599 | can be specified now. The TEST key accepts an optional mode mask | |
600 | TEST{0100}=="<is executable file>". | |
601 | ||
602 | Scsi_id now supports a mode without expecting scsi-specific sysfs | |
603 | entries to allow the extraction of cciss-device persistent properties. | |
604 | ||
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605 | udev 111 |
606 | ======== | |
607 | Bugfixes. | |
608 | ||
609 | In the future, we may see uuid's which are just simple character | |
610 | strings (see the DDF Raid Specification). For that reason vol_id now | |
83a4c0f8 | 611 | exports ID_FS_UUID_SAFE, just like ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE. For things like |
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612 | the creation of symlinks, the *_SAFE values ensure, that no control |
613 | or whitespace characters are used in the filename. | |
614 | ||
615 | Possible users of libvolume_id, please use the volume_id_get_* functions. | |
616 | The public struct will go away in a future release of the library. | |
617 | ||
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618 | udev 110 |
619 | ======== | |
620 | Bugfixes. | |
621 | ||
622 | Removal of useless extras/eventrecorder.sh. | |
623 | ||
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624 | udev 109 |
625 | ======== | |
626 | Bugfixes. | |
627 | ||
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628 | udev 108 |
629 | ======== | |
630 | Bugfixes. | |
631 | ||
632 | The directory multiplexer for dev.d/ and hotplug.d are finally removed | |
633 | from the udev package. | |
634 | ||
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635 | udev 107 |
636 | ======== | |
637 | Bugfixes. | |
638 | ||
639 | Symlinks can have priorities now, the priority is assigned to the device | |
640 | and specified with OPTIONS="link_priority=100". Devices with higher | |
641 | priorities overwrite the symlinks of devices with lower priorities. | |
642 | If the device that currently owns the link, goes away, the symlink | |
643 | will be removed, and recreated, pointing to the next device with the | |
644 | highest actual priority. This should make /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid,id} | |
645 | more reliable, if multiple devices contain the same metadata and overwrite | |
646 | these symlinks. | |
647 | ||
648 | The dasd_id program is removed from the udev tree, and dasdinfo, with the | |
649 | needed rules, are part of the s390-tools now. | |
650 | ||
651 | Please add KERNEL=="[0-9]*:[0-9]*" to the scsi wait-for-sysfs rule, | |
652 | we may get the scsi sysfs mess fixed some day, and this will only catch | |
653 | the devices we are looking for. | |
654 | ||
655 | USB serial numbers for storage devices have the target:lun now appended, | |
656 | to make it possibble to distinguish broken multi-lun devices with all | |
657 | the same SCSI identifiers. | |
658 | ||
659 | Note: The extra "run_directory" which searches and executes stuff in | |
660 | /etc/hotplug.d/ and /etc/dev.d/ is long deprecated, and will be removed | |
661 | with the next release. Make sure, that you don't use it anymore, or | |
662 | provides your own implementation of that inefficient stuff. | |
663 | We are tired of reports about a "slow udev", because these directories | |
664 | contain stuff, that runs with _every_ event, instead of using rules, | |
665 | that run programs only for the matching events. | |
666 | ||
667 | udev 106 | |
668 | ======== | |
669 | Bugfixes. | |
670 | ||
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671 | udev 105 |
672 | ======== | |
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673 | Bugfixes. |
674 | ||
675 | DRIVER== will match only for devices that actually have a real | |
676 | driver. DRIVERS== must be used, if parent devices should be | |
677 | included in the match. | |
678 | ||
679 | Libvolume_id's "linux_raid" detection needed another fix. | |
273bebdb | 680 | |
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681 | udev 104 |
682 | ======== | |
683 | Bugfixes. | |
684 | ||
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685 | udev 103 |
686 | ======== | |
687 | Add additional check to volume_id detection of via_raid, cause | |
688 | some company decided to put a matching pattern all over the empty | |
689 | storage area of their music players. | |
690 | ||
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691 | udev 102 |
692 | ======== | |
693 | Fix path_id for SAS devices. | |
694 | ||
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695 | udev 101 |
696 | ======== | |
697 | The udev daemon can be started with --debug-trace now, which will | |
698 | execute all events serialized to get a chance to catch a possible | |
699 | action that crashes the box. | |
700 | ||
701 | A warning is logged, if PHYSDEV* keys, the "device" link, or a parent | |
702 | device attribute like $attr{../file} is used, only WAIT_FOR_SYSFS rules | |
703 | are excluded from the warning. Referencing parent attributes directly | |
704 | may break when something in the kernel driver model changes. Udev will | |
705 | just find the attribute by walking up the parent chain. | |
706 | ||
707 | Udevtrigger now sorts the list of devices depending on the device | |
708 | dependency, so a "usb" device is triggered after the parent "pci" | |
709 | device. | |
710 | ||
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711 | udev 100 |
712 | ======== | |
713 | Revert persistent-storage ata-serial '_' '-' replacement. | |
714 | ||
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715 | udev 099 |
716 | ======== | |
717 | Bugfixes. | |
718 | ||
719 | Udevtrigger can now filter the list of devices to be triggered. Matches | |
720 | for subsystems or sysfs attributes can be specified. | |
721 | ||
722 | The entries in /dev/.udev/queue and /dev/.udev/failed have changed to | |
723 | zero-sized files to avoid pointing to /sys and confuse broken tools which | |
724 | scan the /dev directory. To retry failed events, udevtrigger --retry-failed | |
725 | should be used now. | |
726 | ||
727 | The rules and scripts to create udev rules for persistent network | |
728 | devices and optical drives are in the extras/rules_generator directory | |
729 | now. If you use something similar, please consider replacing your own | |
730 | version with this, to share the support effort. The rule_generator | |
731 | installs its own rules into /etc/udev/rules.d. | |
732 | ||
733 | The cdrom_id tool installs its own rule now in /etc/udev/rules.d, cause | |
734 | the rule_generator depends on cdrom_id to be called in an earlier rule. | |
735 | ||
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736 | udev 098 |
737 | ======== | |
738 | Bugfixes. | |
739 | ||
740 | Renaming of some key names (the old names still work): | |
741 | BUS -> SUBSYSTEMS, ID -> KERNELS, SYSFS -> ATTRS, DRIVER -> DRIVERS. | |
742 | (The behavior of the key DRIVER will change soon in one of the next | |
743 | releases, to match only the event device, please switch to DRIVERS | |
744 | instead. If DRIVER is used, it will behave like DRIVERS, but an error | |
745 | is logged. | |
746 | With the new key names, we have a more consistent and simpler scheme. | |
747 | We can match the properties of the event device only, with: KERNEL, | |
748 | SUBSYSTEM, ATTR, DRIVER. Or include all the parent devices in the match, | |
749 | with: KERNELS, SUBSYSTEMS, ATTRS, DRIVERS. ID, BUS, SYSFS, DRIVER are no | |
750 | longer mentioned in the man page and should be switched in the rule | |
751 | files. | |
752 | ||
753 | ATTR{file}="value" can be used now, to write to a sysfs file of the | |
754 | event device. Instead of: | |
755 | ..., SYSFS{type}=="0|7|14", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 60 > /sys$$DEVPATH/timeout'" | |
756 | we now can do: | |
757 | ..., ATTR{type}=="0|7|14", ATTR{timeout}="60" | |
758 | ||
759 | All the PHYSDEV* keys are deprecated and will be removed from a | |
760 | future kernel: | |
761 | PHYDEVPATH - is the path of a parent device and should not be | |
762 | needed at all. | |
763 | PHYSDEVBUS - is just a SUBSYSTEM value of a parent, and can be | |
764 | matched with SUBSYSTEMS== | |
765 | PHYSDEVDRIVER - for bus devices it is available as ENV{DRIVER}. | |
766 | Newer kernels will have DRIVER in the environment, | |
767 | for older kernels udev puts in. Class device will | |
768 | no longer carry this property of a parent and | |
769 | DRIVERS== can be used to match such a parent value. | |
770 | Note that ENV{DRIVER} is only available for a few bus devices, where | |
771 | the driver is already bound at device event time. On coldplug, the | |
772 | events for a lot devices are already bound to a driver, and they will have | |
773 | that value set. But on hotplug, at the time the kernel creates the device, | |
774 | it can't know what driver may claim the device after that, therefore | |
775 | in most cases it will be empty. | |
776 | ||
777 | Failed events should now be re-triggered with: | |
778 | udevtrigger --retry-failed. | |
779 | Please switch to this command, so we keep the details of the /dev/.udev/failed/ | |
780 | files private to the udev tools. We may need to switch the current symlink | |
781 | target, cause some obviously broken tools try to scan all files in /dev | |
782 | including /dev/.udev/, find the links to /sys and end up stat()'ing sysfs files | |
783 | million times. This takes ages on slow boxes. | |
784 | ||
785 | The udevinfo attribute walk (-a) now works with giving a device node | |
786 | name (-n) instead of a devpath (-p). The query now always works, also when | |
787 | no database file was created by udev. | |
788 | ||
789 | The built-in /etc/passwd /etc/group parser is removed, we always depend on | |
790 | getpwnam() and getgrnam() now. One of the next releases will depend on | |
791 | fnmatch() and may use getopt_long(). | |
792 | ||
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793 | udev 097 |
794 | ======== | |
795 | Bugfixes and small improvements. | |
796 | ||
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797 | udev 096 |
798 | ======== | |
be31371f | 799 | Fix path_id for recent kernels. |
8448b7ce | 800 | |
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801 | udev 095 |
802 | ======== | |
56f914e6 | 803 | %e is finally gone. |
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804 | |
805 | Added support for swapping network interface names, by temporarily | |
806 | renaming the device and wait for the target name to become free. | |
807 | ||
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808 | udev 094 |
809 | ======== | |
810 | The built-in MODALIAS key and substitution is removed. | |
811 | ||
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812 | udev 093 |
813 | ======== | |
814 | The binary firmware helper is replaced by the usual simple | |
815 | shell script. Udevsend is removed from the tree. | |
816 | ||
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817 | udev 092 |
818 | ======== | |
819 | Bugfix release. | |
820 | ||
866bfe88 KS |
821 | udev 091 |
822 | ======== | |
823 | Some more keys require the correct use of '==' and '=' depending | |
824 | on the kind of operation beeing an assignment or a match. Rules | |
825 | with invalid operations are skipped and logged to syslog. Please | |
826 | test with udevtest if the parsing of your rules throws errors and | |
827 | fix possibly broken rules. | |
828 | ||
876fa61d KS |
829 | udev 090 |
830 | ======== | |
831 | Provide "udevsettle" to wait for all current udev events to finish. | |
832 | It also watches the current kernel netlink queue by comparing the | |
833 | even sequence number to make sure that there are no current pending | |
834 | events that have not already arrived in the daemon. | |
835 | ||
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836 | udev 089 |
837 | ======== | |
838 | Fix rule to skip persistent rules for removable IDE devices, which | |
839 | also skipped optical IDE drives. | |
840 | ||
841 | All *_id program are installed in /lib/udev/ by default now. | |
842 | ||
843 | No binary is stripped anymore as this should be done in the | |
844 | packaging process and not at build time. | |
845 | ||
846 | libvolume_id is provided as a shared library now and vol_id is | |
847 | linked against it. Also one of the next HAL versions will require | |
848 | this library, and the HAL build process will also require the | |
849 | header file to be installed. The copy of the same code in HAL will | |
850 | be removed to have only a single copy left on the system. | |
851 | ||
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852 | udev 088 |
853 | ======== | |
854 | Add persistent links for SCSI tapes. The rules file is renamed | |
855 | to 60-persistent-storage.rules. | |
856 | ||
857 | Create persistent path for usb devices. Can be used for all sorts | |
858 | of devices that can't be distinguished by other properties like | |
859 | multiple identical keyboards and mice connected to the same box. | |
860 | ||
861 | Provide "udevtrigger" program to request events on coldplug. The | |
862 | shell script is much too slow with thousends of devices. | |
863 | ||
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864 | udev 087 |
865 | ======== | |
866 | Fix persistent disk rules to exclude removable IDE drives. | |
867 | ||
868 | Warn if %e, $modalias or MODALIAS is used. | |
869 | ||
870 | udev 086 | |
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871 | ======== |
872 | Fix queue export, which wasn't correct for subsequent add/remove | |
873 | events for the same device. | |
874 | ||
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875 | udev 085 |
876 | ======== | |
877 | Fix cramfs detection on big endian. | |
878 | ||
879 | Make WAIT_FOR_SYSFS usable in "normal" rules and silent if the whole | |
880 | device goes away. | |
881 | ||
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882 | udev 084 |
883 | ======== | |
66c2bc21 | 884 | If BUS== and SYSFS{}== have been used in the same rule, the sysfs |
b3e8c12b AB |
885 | attributes were only checked at the parent device that matched the |
886 | by BUS requested subsystem. Fix it to also look at the device we | |
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887 | received the event for. |
888 | ||
889 | Build variable CROSS has changed to CROSS_COMPILE to match the kernel | |
890 | build name. | |
4942c78c | 891 | |
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892 | udev 083 |
893 | ======== | |
894 | Fix a bug where NAME="" would prevent RUN from beeing executed. | |
895 | ||
cef28db9 | 896 | RUN="/bin/program" does not longer automatically add the subsystem |
36af2ddc | 897 | as the first parameter. This is from the days of /sbin/hotplug |
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898 | which is dead now and it's just confusing to need to add a space at |
899 | the end of the program name to prevent this. | |
900 | If you use rules that need the subsystem as the first parameter, | |
901 | like the old "udev_run_hotlugd" and "udev_run_devd", add the subsystem | |
902 | to the key like RUN+="/bin/program $env{SUBSYSTEM}". | |
36af2ddc | 903 | |
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904 | udev 082 |
905 | ======== | |
b3e8c12b | 906 | The udev man page has moved to udev(7) as it does not describe a command |
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907 | anymore. The programs udev, udevstart and udevsend are no longer installed |
908 | by default and must be copied manually, if they should be installed or | |
909 | included in a package. | |
910 | ||
911 | Fix a bug where "ignore_device" could run earlier collected RUN keys before | |
912 | the ignore rule was applied. | |
913 | ||
914 | More preparation for future sysfs changes. usb_id and scsi_id no longer | |
915 | depend on a magic order of devices in the /devices chain. Specific devices | |
916 | should be requested by their subsytem. | |
917 | ||
918 | This will always find the scsi parent device without depending on a specific | |
919 | path position: | |
920 | dev = sysfs_device_get(devpath); | |
921 | dev_usb = sysfs_device_get_parent_with_subsystem(dev, "scsi"); | |
922 | ||
923 | The "device" link in the current sysfs layout will be automatically | |
924 | _resolved_ as a parent and in the new sysfs layout it will just _be_ the | |
925 | parent in the devpath. If a device is requested by it's symlink, like all | |
926 | class devices in the new sysfs layout will look like, it gets automatically | |
927 | resolved and substituted with the real devpath and not the symlink path. | |
928 | ||
929 | Note: | |
930 | A similar logic must be applied to _all_ sysfs users, including | |
931 | scripts, that search along parent devices in sysfs. The explicit use of | |
932 | the "device" link must be avoided. With the future sysfs layout all | |
933 | DEVPATH's will start with /devices/ and have a "subsystem" symlink poiting | |
934 | back to the "class" or the "bus". The layout of the parent devices in | |
935 | /devices is not necessarily expected to be stable across kernel releases and | |
936 | searching for parents by their subsystem should make sysfs users tolerant | |
937 | for changed parent chains. | |
938 | ||
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939 | udev 081 |
940 | ======== | |
941 | Prepare udev to work with the experimental kernel patch, that moves | |
942 | /sys/class devices to /sys/devices and /sys/block to /sys/class/block. | |
943 | ||
944 | Clarify BUS, ID, $id usage and fix $id behavior. This prepares for | |
945 | moving the class devices to /sys/devices. | |
946 | ||
947 | Thanks again to Marco for help finding a hopefully nice compromise | |
948 | to make %b simpler and working again. | |
949 | ||
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950 | udev 080 |
951 | ======== | |
1aa1e248 KS |
952 | Complete removal of libsysfs, replaced by simple helper functions |
953 | which are much simpler and a bit faster. The udev daemon operatesentirely | |
954 | on event parameters and does not use sysfs for simple rules anymore. | |
955 | Please report any new bugs/problems, that may be caused by this big | |
956 | change. They will be fixed immediately. | |
957 | ||
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958 | The enumeration format character '%e' is deprecated and will be |
959 | removed sometimes from a future udev version. It never worked correctly | |
960 | outside of udevstart, so we can't use it with the new parallel | |
961 | coldplug. A simple enumeration is as useless as the devfs naming | |
962 | scheme, just get rid of both if you still use it. | |
963 | ||
964 | MODALIAS and $modalias is not needed and will be removed from one of | |
965 | the next udev versions, replace it in all rules with ENV{MODALIAS} or | |
966 | the sysfs "modalias" value. | |
967 | ||
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968 | Thanks a lot to Marco for all his help on finding and fixing bugs. |
969 | ||
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970 | udev 079 |
971 | ======== | |
972 | Let scsi_id request libata drive serial numbers from page 0x80. | |
973 | ||
974 | Renamed etc/udev/persistent.rules to persistent-disk.rules and | |
975 | added /dev/disk/by-name/* for device mapper device names. | |
976 | ||
977 | Removed %e from the man page. It never worked reliably outside | |
978 | of udevstart and udevstart is no longer recommended to use. | |
979 | ||
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980 | udev 078 |
981 | ======== | |
982 | Symlinks are now exported to the event environment. Hopefully it's no | |
983 | longer needed to run udevinfo from an event process, like it was | |
984 | mentioned on the hotplug list: | |
985 | UDEV [1134776873.702967] add@/block/sdb | |
986 | ... | |
987 | DEVNAME=/dev/sdb | |
988 | DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-IBM_Memory_Key_0218B301030027E8 /dev/disk/by-path/usb-0218B301030027E8:0:0:0 | |
989 | ||
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990 | udev 077 |
991 | ======== | |
992 | Fix a problem if udevsend is used as the hotplug handler and tries to use | |
993 | syslog, which causes a "vc" event loop. 2.6.15 will make udevsend obsolete | |
994 | and this kind of problems will hopefully go away soon. | |
995 | ||
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996 | udev 076 |
997 | ======== | |
998 | All built-in logic to work around bad sysfs timing is removed with this | |
999 | version. The need to wait for sysfs files is almost fixed with a kernel | |
1000 | version that doesn't work with this udev version anyway. Until we fix | |
1001 | the timing of the "bus" link creation, the former integrated logic should | |
1002 | be emulated by a rule placed before all other rules: | |
1003 | ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus" | |
1004 | ||
e0dc4f00 KS |
1005 | The option "udev_db" does no longer exist. All udev state will be in |
1006 | /$udev_root/.udev/ now, there is no longer an option to set this | |
fc55cf68 | 1007 | to anything else. |
e0dc4f00 KS |
1008 | If the init script or something else used this value, just depend on |
1009 | this hardcoded path. But remember _all_content_ of this directory is | |
1010 | still private to udev and can change at any time. | |
fc55cf68 | 1011 | |
c249f66a KS |
1012 | Default location for rule sripts and helper programs is now: /lib/udev/. |
1013 | Everything that is not useful on the commandline should go into this | |
e0dc4f00 KS |
1014 | directory. Some of the helpers in the extras folder are installed there |
1015 | now. The rules need to be changed, to find the helpers there. | |
1016 | ||
1017 | Also /lib/udev/devices is recommended as a directory where packages or | |
1018 | the user can place real device nodes, which get copied over to /dev at | |
1019 | every boot. This should replace the various solutions with custom config | |
1020 | files. | |
c249f66a | 1021 | |
4389ec08 KS |
1022 | Udevsend does no longer start the udev daemon. This must be done with |
1023 | the init script that prepares /dev on tmpfs and creates the initial nodes, | |
1024 | before starting the daemon. | |
1025 | ||
a8349b33 KS |
1026 | udev 075 |
1027 | ======== | |
ef0cd1ac KS |
1028 | Silent a too verbose error logging for the old hotplug.d/ dev.d/ |
1029 | emulation. | |
1030 | ||
a8349b33 | 1031 | The copy of klibc is removed. A systemwide installed version of klibc |
ef0cd1ac | 1032 | should be used to build a klibc udev now. |
a8349b33 | 1033 | |
bc48bbd9 KS |
1034 | udev 074 |
1035 | ======== | |
1036 | NAME="" will not create any nodes, but execute RUN keys. To completely | |
1037 | ignore an event the OPTION "ignore_device" should be used. | |
1038 | ||
1039 | After removal of the reorder queue, events with a TIMEOUT can be executed | |
1040 | without any queuing now. | |
1041 | ||
8f528042 KS |
1042 | udev 073 |
1043 | ======== | |
1044 | Fixed bug in udevd, if inotify is not available. We depend on netlink | |
1045 | uevents now, kernels without that event source will not work with that | |
1046 | version of udev anymore. | |
1047 | ||
6cb1bbe4 KS |
1048 | udev 072 |
1049 | ======== | |
1050 | The rule parsing happens now in the daemon once at startup, all udev | |
1051 | event processes inherit the already parsed rules from the daemon. | |
1052 | It is shipped with SUSE10.0 and reduces heavily the system load at | |
1ad45a47 KS |
1053 | startup. The option to save precompiled rules and let the udev process |
1054 | pick the them up is removed, as it's no longer needed. | |
6cb1bbe4 | 1055 | |
ce364175 KS |
1056 | Kernel 2.6.15 will have symlinks at /class/input pointing to the real |
1057 | device. Libsysfs is changed to "translate" the requested link into the | |
1058 | real device path, as it would happen with the hotplug event. Otherwise | |
1059 | device removal and the udev database will not work. | |
1060 | ||
1061 | Using 'make STRIPCMD=' will leave the binaries unstripped for debugging | |
6cb1bbe4 KS |
1062 | and packaging. |
1063 | ||
1064 | A few improvements for vol_id, the filesytem probing code. | |
1065 | ||
a743be9a KS |
1066 | udev 071 |
1067 | ======== | |
1068 | Fix a stupid typo in extras/run_directory for "make install". | |
1069 | ||
1070 | scsi_id creates the temporary devnode now in /dev for usage with a | |
1071 | non-writable /tmp directory. | |
1072 | ||
1073 | The uevent kernel socket buffer can carry app. 50.000 events now, | |
1074 | let's see who can break this again. :) | |
1075 | ||
1076 | The upcoming kernel will have a new input driver core integration. | |
1077 | Some class devices are now symlinks to the real device. libsysfs | |
1078 | needs a fix for this to work correctly. Udevstart of older udev | |
1079 | versions will _not_ create these devices! | |
1080 | ||
b0f65295 KS |
1081 | udev 070 |
1082 | ======== | |
1083 | Fix a 'install' target in the Makefile, that prevents EXTRAS from | |
1084 | beeing installed. | |
1085 | ||
b581515c KS |
1086 | udev 069 |
1087 | ======== | |
1088 | A bunch of mostly trivial bugfixes. From now on no node name or | |
1089 | symlink name can contain any character than plain whitelisted ascii | |
1090 | characters or validated utf8 byte-streams. This is needed for the | |
e688ad2d | 1091 | /dev/disk/by-label/* links, because we import untrusted data and |
b581515c KS |
1092 | export it to the filesystem. |
1093 | ||
24a12dcb KS |
1094 | udev 068 |
1095 | ======== | |
1096 | More bugfixes. If udevd was started from the kernel, we don't | |
1097 | have stdin/stdout/stderr, which broke the forked tools in some | |
1098 | situations. | |
1099 | ||
1100 | udev 067 | |
1101 | ======== | |
1102 | Bugfix. udevstart event ordering was broken for a long time. | |
e688ad2d | 1103 | The new run_program() uncovered it, because /dev/null was not |
24a12dcb KS |
1104 | available while we try to run external programs. |
1105 | Now udevstart should create it before we run anything. | |
1106 | ||
6214290d KS |
1107 | udev 066 |
1108 | ======== | |
1109 | Minor bugfixes and some distro rules updates. If you don't have the | |
1110 | persistent disk rules in /dev/disk/by-*/* on your distro, just | |
1111 | grab it from here. :) | |
1112 | ||
61341fae KS |
1113 | udev 065 |
1114 | ======== | |
1115 | We can use socket communication now to pass events from udev to | |
1116 | other programs: | |
1117 | RUN+="socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event" | |
1118 | will pass the whole udev event to the HAL daemon without the need | |
1119 | for a forked helper. (See ChangeLog for udevmonitor, as an example) | |
1120 | ||
1121 | udev 064 | |
1122 | ======== | |
1123 | Mostly bugfixes and see ChangeLog. | |
1124 | ||
1125 | The test for the existence of an environment value should be | |
1126 | switched from: | |
1127 | ENV{KEY}=="*" to ENV{KEY}=="?*" | |
e688ad2d | 1128 | because "*" will not fail anymore, if the key does not exist or |
61341fae KS |
1129 | is empty. |
1130 | ||
1131 | udev 063 | |
1132 | ======== | |
1133 | Bugfixes and a few tweaks described in the ChangeLog. | |
1134 | ||
97c0448d KS |
1135 | udev 062 |
1136 | ======== | |
1137 | Mostly a Bugfix release. | |
1138 | ||
1139 | Added WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="<attribute>" to be able to fight against the sysfs | |
1140 | timing with custom rules. | |
1141 | ||
133dd3ce KS |
1142 | udev 061 |
1143 | ======== | |
1144 | We changed the internal rule storage format. Our large rule files took | |
1145 | 2 MB of RAM, with the change we are down to 99kB. | |
1146 | ||
1147 | If the device-node has been created with default name and no symlink or | |
1148 | options are to remenber, it is not longer stored in the udevdb. HAL will | |
1149 | need to be updated to work correctly with that change. | |
1150 | ||
1151 | To overrride optimization flags, OPTFLAGS may be used now. | |
1152 | ||
1153 | udev 060 | |
1154 | ======== | |
1155 | Bugfix release. | |
1156 | ||
be0856c8 KS |
1157 | udev 059 |
1158 | ======== | |
1159 | Major changes happened with this release. The goal is to take over the | |
1160 | complete kernel-event handling and provide a more efficient way to dispatch | |
1161 | kernel events. Replacing most of the current shell script logic and the | |
1162 | kernel forked helper with a netlink-daemon and a rule-based event handling. | |
1163 | ||
1164 | o udevd listens to netlink events now. The first valid netlink event | |
1165 | will make udevd ignore any message from udevsend that contains a | |
1166 | SEQNUM, to avoid duplicate events. The forked events can be disabled | |
1167 | with: | |
1168 | echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug | |
1169 | For full support, the broken input-subsytem needs to be fixed, not to | |
1170 | bypass the driver core. | |
1171 | ||
1172 | o /etc/dev.d/ + /etc/hotplug.d/ directory multiplexing is completely | |
1173 | removed from udev itself and must be emulated by calling small | |
1174 | helper binaries provided in the extras folder: | |
1175 | make EXTRAS=extras/run_directory/ | |
1176 | will build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd, which can be called | |
1177 | from a rule if needed: | |
1178 | RUN+="/sbin/udev_run_hotplugd" | |
1179 | The recommended way to handle this is to convert all the calls from | |
1180 | the directories to explicit udev rules and get completely rid of the | |
1181 | multiplexing. (To catch a ttyUSB event, you now no longer need to | |
1182 | fork and exit 300 tty script instances you are not interested in, it | |
1183 | is just one rule that matches exactly the device.) | |
1184 | ||
1185 | o udev handles now _all_ events not just events for class and block | |
1186 | devices, this way it is possible to control the complete event | |
1187 | behavior with udev rules. Especially useful for rules like: | |
1188 | ACTION="add", DEVPATH="/devices/*", MODALIAS=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias" | |
1189 | ||
1190 | o As used in the modalias rule, udev supports now textual | |
1191 | substitution placeholder along with the usual format chars. This | |
1192 | needs to be documented, for now it's only visible in udev_rules_parse.c. | |
1193 | ||
1194 | o The rule keys support now more operations. This is documented in the | |
1195 | man page. It is possible to add values to list-keys like the SYMLINK | |
1196 | and RUN list with KEY+="value" and to clear the list by assigning KEY="". | |
1197 | Also "final"-assignments are supported by using KEY:="value", which will | |
1198 | prevent changing the key by any later rule. | |
1199 | ||
1200 | o kernel 2.6.12 has the "detached_state" attribute removed from | |
1201 | sysfs, which was used to recognize sysfs population. We switched that | |
1202 | to wait for the "bus" link, which is only available in kernels after 2.6.11. | |
1203 | Running this udev version on older kernels may cause a short delay for | |
1204 | some events. | |
1205 | ||
1206 | o To provide infrastructure for persistent device naming, the id programs: | |
1207 | scsi_id, vol_id (former udev_volume_id), and ata_id (new) are able now | |
1208 | to export the probed data in environment key format: | |
1209 | pim:~ # /sbin/ata_id --export /dev/hda | |
1210 | ID_MODEL=HTS726060M9AT00 | |
1211 | ID_SERIAL=MRH401M4G6UM9B | |
1212 | ID_REVISION=MH4OA6BA | |
1213 | ||
1214 | The following rules: | |
1215 | KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", IMPORT="/sbin/ata_id --export $tempnode" | |
1216 | KERNEL="hd*[!0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="?*", SYMLINK+="disk/by-id/$env{ID_MODEL}_$env{ID_SERIAL}" | |
1217 | ||
1218 | Will create: | |
1219 | kay@pim:~> tree /dev/disk | |
1220 | /dev/disk | |
1221 | |-- by-id | |
1222 | | |-- HTS726060M9AT00_MRH401M4G6UM9B -> ../../hda | |
1223 | | `-- IBM-Memory_Key -> ../../sda | |
1224 | |-- by-label | |
1225 | | |-- swap -> ../../hda1 | |
1226 | | |-- date -> ../../sda1 | |
1227 | | `-- home -> ../../hda3 | |
1228 | `-- by-uuid | |
1229 | |-- 2E08712B0870F2E7 -> ../../hda3 | |
1230 | |-- 9352cfef-7687-47bc-a2a3-34cf136f72e1 -> ../../hda1 | |
1231 | |-- E845-7A89 -> ../../sda1 | |
1232 | `-- b2a61681-3812-4f13-a4ff-920d70604299 -> ../../hda2 | |
1233 | ||
1234 | The IMPORT= operation will import these keys in the environment and make | |
1235 | it available for later PROGRAM= and RUN= executed programs. The keys are | |
1236 | also stored in the udevdb and can be queried from there with one of the | |
1237 | next udev versions. | |
1238 | ||
1239 | o A few binaries are silently added to the repository, which can be used | |
1240 | to replay kernel events from initramfs instead of using coldplug. udevd | |
1241 | can be instructed now to queue-up events while the stored events from | |
1242 | initramfs are filled into the udevd-queue. This code is still under | |
1243 | development and there is no documentation now besides the code itself. | |
1244 | The additional binaries get compiled, but are not installed by default. | |
1245 | ||
1246 | o There is also a temporary fix for a performance problem where too many | |
1247 | events happen in parallel and every event needs to parse the rules. | |
1248 | udev can now read precompiled rules stored on disk. This is likely to be | |
1249 | replaced by a more elegant solution in a future udev version. | |
1250 | ||
1251 | udev 058 | |
1252 | ======== | |
1253 | With kernel version 2.6.12, the sysfs file "detached_state" was removed. | |
1254 | Fix for libsysfs not to expect this file was added. | |
1255 | ||
6b493a20 KS |
1256 | udev 057 |
1257 | ======== | |
e4388fb3 | 1258 | All rules are applied now, but only the first matching rule with a NAME-key |
16eb35d1 KS |
1259 | will be applied. All later rules with NAME-key are completely ignored. This |
1260 | way system supplied symlinks or permissions gets applied to user-defined | |
1261 | naming rules. | |
1262 | ||
e4388fb3 KS |
1263 | Note: |
1264 | Please check your rules setup, if you may need to add OPTIONS="last_rule" | |
1265 | to some rules, to keep the old behavior. | |
1266 | ||
1267 | The rules are read on "remove"-events too. That makes is possible to match | |
1268 | with keys that are available on remove (KERNEL, SUBSYSTEM, ID, ENV, ...) to | |
16eb35d1 KS |
1269 | instruct udev to ignore an event (OPTIONS="ignore_device"). |
1270 | The new ACTION-key may be used to let a rule act only at a "remove"-event. | |
e4388fb3 KS |
1271 | |
1272 | The new RUN-key supports rule-based execution of programs after device-node | |
16eb35d1 KS |
1273 | handling. This is meant as a general replacement for the dev.d/-directories |
1274 | to give fine grained control over the execution of programs. | |
e4388fb3 KS |
1275 | |
1276 | The %s{}-sysfs format char replacement values are searched at any of the | |
1277 | devices in the device chain now, not only at the class-device. | |
1278 | ||
6b493a20 KS |
1279 | We support log priority levels now. The value udev_log in udev.conf is used |
1280 | to determine what is printed to syslog. This makes it possible to | |
1281 | run a version with compiled-in debug messages in a production environment | |
1282 | which is sometimes needed to find a bug. | |
1283 | It is still possible to supress the inclusion of _any_ syslog usage with | |
1284 | USE_LOG=false to create the smallest possible binaries if needed. | |
1285 | The configured udev_log value can be overridden with the environment variable | |
1286 | UDEV_LOG. | |
1287 | ||
7f7ae03a KS |
1288 | udev 056 |
1289 | ======== | |
1290 | Possible use of a system-wide klibc: | |
16eb35d1 | 1291 | make USE_KLIBC=true KLCC=/usr/bin/klcc all |
7f7ae03a KS |
1292 | will link against an external klibc and our own version will be ignored. |
1293 | ||
143139a1 KS |
1294 | udev 055 |
1295 | ======== | |
1296 | We support an unlimited count of symlinks now. | |
1297 | ||
1298 | If USE_STATIC=true is passed to a glibc build, we link statically and use | |
1299 | a built-in userdb parser to resolve user and group names. | |
1300 | ||
e688ad2d | 1301 | The PLACE= key is gone. It can be replaced by an ID= for a long time, because |
143139a1 KS |
1302 | we walk up the chain of physical devices to find a match. |
1303 | ||
28ce66de | 1304 | The KEY="<value>" format supports '=', '==', '!=,' , '+=' now. This makes it |
38285d23 KS |
1305 | easy to skip certain attribute matches without composing rules with weird |
1306 | character class negations like: | |
28ce66de | 1307 | KERNEL="[!s][!c][!d]*" |
38285d23 | 1308 | this can now be replaced with: |
28ce66de | 1309 | KERNEL!="scd*" |
38285d23 KS |
1310 | The current simple '=' is still supported, and should work as it does today, |
1311 | but existing rules should be converted if possible, to be better readable. | |
1312 | ||
fc90ce81 KS |
1313 | We have new ENV{}== key now, to match against a maximum of 5 environment |
1314 | variables. | |
0e33828a | 1315 | |
e688ad2d | 1316 | udevstart is its own binary again, because we don't need co carry this araound |
0e33828a | 1317 | with every forked event. |