Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7509 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 166 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 4cddeb7cd..cf55f3297 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@
 -->
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>April 13, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>April 12, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
@@ -44,9 +53,6 @@
           Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
-          <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust some redundant text in Berkeley DB page.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
           Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
           convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
@@ -70,6 +76,19 @@
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>April 8, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
+	  in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
+	  programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
+	  slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
+	  'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>April 6, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
@@ -83,11 +102,30 @@
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>April 2, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
+          and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
+          mounting of kernel filesystems before pkgmgt page and rewrote the page
+          to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel filesystems while
+          outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering chroot and remounting
+          kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list of dirs created in
+          chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>March 30, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
-	  Man-DB.  Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
+          Man-DB.  Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
+          and Udev-088.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
@@ -97,20 +135,33 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
-	  to convert its UTF-8 man pages.  Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
-	  the script and commands.  Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
+          to convert its UTF-8 man pages.  Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
+          the script and commands.  Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
      <listitem>
-       <para>March 22, 2006</para>
-       <itemizedlist>
-         <listitem>
-           <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060321.</para>
-         </listitem>
-       </itemizedlist>
-     </listitem>
+      <para>March 22, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[archaic] - Updated to
+          lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+   <listitem>
+      <para>March 21, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
+          hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
+          udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
       <para>March 18, 2006</para>
@@ -163,6 +214,21 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
+          does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
+          Patrakov.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
+          present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -170,6 +236,11 @@
       <para>March 7, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
+          upload firmware to devices that need it.  Improve explanations of
+          device and module handling.  Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
           LFS-style patch.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -190,6 +261,10 @@
       <para>March 1, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
+          symlinks.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
           help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -210,6 +285,11 @@
       <para>February 20, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
+          keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
+          expanded by the shell.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
@@ -226,6 +306,16 @@
           to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
+          every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
           --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile.  Thanks to Greg Schafer
           for the report and the fix.</para>
@@ -256,6 +346,13 @@
           <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
           Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
+          instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml.  Add
+          &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
+          <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
+          can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -270,6 +367,62 @@
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>February 8, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
+          reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
+          module loading.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>February 3, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Create the
+          <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
+          can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
+          hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
+          download.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>February 2, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
+          enable custom rules to be written more easily.  Also, change the
+          rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
+          bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript
+          Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>January 30, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>