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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-06-15 13:22:21 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-06-15 13:22:21 +0200
commit26812f0a13eacb8615f66f9048cd9575b2b8a2cf (patch)
tree9d129e5bd43f31eaa83b1b7bf5a70a47b182c21b /NEWS
parent7e8ea3320d194f34393224e4cecb39fbc8c94e57 (diff)
downloadudev-26812f0a13eacb8615f66f9048cd9575b2b8a2cf.tar.gz
libudev: add gtk-doc
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@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ udev 143
Bugfixes.
Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
-pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer
-cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, a few
-worker processes stay around for future events, all others get cleaned up.
+the number of forks and the pressure on the CPU significantly, because
+cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon.
+After the events have settled, a few worker processes stay around for
+future events, all others get cleaned up.
To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
-Also inotify support is required now to run udev.
+Also inotify support is mandatory now to run udev.
The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is
no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be
@@ -17,6 +18,11 @@ accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv.
Libudev does not have the unstable API header anymore. From now on,
incompatible changes will be handled by bumping the library major version.
+To build udev from the git tree gtk-doc is needed now. The tarballs will
+build without it and contain the pre-built documentation. An online copy
+is available here:
+ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
+
udev 142
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Bugfixes.