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One of the biggest changes in this release is that the default rules
are no longer conffiles and are now installed into /lib/udev/rules.d
You may still add your custom rules to /etc/udev/rules.d and these
will be processed after the default ones, and can thus override
anything they do.
To avoid side-effects of default rules (ie. running of programs),
create the file with the same name.
* New upstream release:
- Changed to use autoconf
- Default rules moved to /lib/udev/rules.d
- udevadm symlinks removed.
- udevadm info output for --device-id-of-file changed.
- udevadm trigger has new --type option.
- libvolume_id soname change.
- libvolume_id now able to return multiple matches for a single block
device, or no matches if conflicting metadata found.
- libudev shared library introduced.
- by-id/scsi-* and by-id/ieee-* links both created by Firewire disks.
- Optical devices no longer probed for raid signatures. (LP: #283316).
- DEVTYPE=disk/partition no longer exported by default.
- pnp support removed now that we have MODALIAS support in kernel.
- Introduced /dev/block and /dev/char (see changelog for 124-6).
- Rule matching engine changed, limits such as 5 ENV and ATTR matches
and only one match for any other key are now gone. NAME assignment
is no longer special cased (subsequent assignments will now overwrite
unless := is used).
- Substantial memory footprint reduction work.
* debian/patches/01-cdrom-vol_id-probing.patch:
- Dropped, included in upstream release.
* debian/patches/80-extras-dvb_device_name.patch:
- Dropped, no longer compiles and won't be needed from the next kernel
onwards. Since these aren't boot critical, just do it in shell.
* debian/patches/80-extras-firmware.patch:
- Dropped, no longer compiles anyway so we may as well just use the
upstream firmware.sh which also supports crazy PackageKit stuff
* debian/patches/80-extras-ide_media.patch:
- Dropped, the ide subsystem has had MODALIAS support since hardy using
the media type.
* debian/patches/80-extras-usb_device_name.patch:
- Dropped, we no longer need to support the legacy usb_device subsystem
since we've had the newer ENVTYPE=usb_device objects since hardy.
- Bump minimum kernel version to 2.6.24 for the initramfs.
* debian/patches/80-extras-vio_type.patch:
- Dropped, we don't even build these modules.
* debian/patches/80-extras-watershed.patch:
- Dropped, we do not used it in any udev rules shipped in this package;
it can be separated out into another source package if other things
still use it (which we should try to make them not).
* Merged our rules with Upstream default rules, this results in a number
of minor changes but achieves consistency with other distributions:
* /dev/net/tun is now mode 666, the kernel documentation says this is safe
since you still need CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tunnels.
* /dev/srN are now the definitive names of SCSI CD-ROM devices, with
/dev/scdN as deprecated symlinks to them; this is the exact opposite of
how we had things before.
* /dev/nvram is now in the kmem group, the nvram group has been dropped.
* Removable disks have moved from the floppy group to the disk group, with
floppy now largely reserved for real old-fashioned floppy devices (and
the /dev/fd* devices are now all in floppy). LP: #260982.
* CD/BD-ROM devices should now consistently be in the cdrom group.
* Tape devices should now consistently be in the tape group.
* More video devices consistently in the video group.
* Printers on printer-specific ports now in the lp group, ppdev module
loaded when necessary.
* The scanner group has been dropped, it's become increasingly difficult
to determine what is and isn't a scanner; especially with multi-function
devices - access to scanners is better handled by ACL now.
* /dev/input devices no longer group writable
* /dev/tty devices are now group writable (wall/write enabled)
* /dev/rtc restored to root group. LP: #306458.
* Various changes to the way the dialout group is assigned, should lead
to more reliable device groups thus specific rules dropped.
LP: #264792.
* Support for infiniband, iowarrior, usbdpfp, sxctl, rioctl, bsg and
etherd devices.
* Add LSB headers to init scripts. LP: #312324.
* Correct name of CD Aliases generator in postinst. LP: #250232.
* Fixed /usr/lib/libvolume_id.so symlink. LP: #232434.
* Dropped /dev/.static/dev. LP: #253786.
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