udev - Allows users to have a dynamic /dev directory, persistent device names HOWTO

ChangeLog


Sep 18, 2006	- Create firmware_helper symlink
Sep 13, 2006	- 093 -> 100
Jun 6, 2006	- 070 -> 093
Sep 16, 2005	- Added note about /etc/udev/permissions.d being gone
		- Added 'man udev' to the list of things to read
		- Added something to fix a typo in the Slackware example
		  udev rules
Sep 15, 2005	- 051 -> 070
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Added sha1sum verification
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Make all www.kernel.org links www.us.kernel.org
Feb 18, 2005	- 050 -> 051
		- Updated Slack note for 10.1
		- Instead of patching and installing etc/init.d/whatever,
		  install extras/start_udev as /etc/rc.d/rc.udev, removed
		  the note about opening up rc.S and adding " start" to
		  the line that starts rc.udev 
		- Added links to some reading material
Dec 29, 2004	- 046 -> 050
		- Changed the hotplug prerequisite link to point to the
		  new howto
		- Added backup of udev files
		- etc/init.d/udev doesn't exist any more, so I added a patch
		  for etc/init.d/udev.lfs
Dec 3, 2004	- Add a 'success()' routine to the rc.udev init script, the
		  script uses it, assuming it was loaded from
		  /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, which Slackware doesn't use
		- The init script changes are done with a patch now instead
		  of passing it through sed
		- Only try to load /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions if it exists
		  and is readable, also try to load /etc/init.d/functions if
		  the first one doesn't exist, but it does
		- Updated notes about rc.S
Dec 2, 2004	- First entry

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