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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2009-09-09 18:18:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2009-09-09 18:49:07 +0200 |
| commit | 6c29f2b942358d4dd9d3e7c65c13c3612dded3cc (patch) | |
| tree | 2604ad41d6cd00785e13caa5515996acc3e942ee /NEWS | |
| parent | 7f06ec2e19387424de34bae35320c2fe192cb69d (diff) | |
| download | udev-6c29f2b942358d4dd9d3e7c65c13c3612dded3cc.tar.gz | |
simplify "symlink name stack"
With well defined and kernel-supplied node names, we no longer need
to support a possible stack of conflicting symlinks and node names.
Only symlinks with identical names can be claimed by multiple devices.
This shrinks the former /dev/.udev/names/ significantly.
Also the /dev/{block,char}/MAJ:MIN" links are excluded from the name
stack - they are unique and can not conflict.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Please do not port anything to the new format again, everything in /dev/.udev is and always was private to udev, and may and will change any time without prior notice. +Multiple devices claiming the same names in /dev are limited to symlinks +only now. Mixing identical symlink names and node names is not supported. +This reduces the amount of data in the database significantly. + NAME="%k" causes a warning now. It's is and always was completely superfluous. It will break kernel supplied DEVNAMEs and therefore it needs to be removed from all rules. |