From bc81629c44b0083efa18ef11b653890a3c283645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Bercot
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:03:33 +0000
Subject: Deprecate s6-uevent-*, prepare for 2.4.0.2
---
doc/index.html | 10 ++++++----
doc/s6-uevent-listener.html | 16 ++++++++++++----
doc/s6-uevent-spawner.html | 9 ++++++++-
doc/upgrade.html | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
(limited to 'doc')
diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html
index ab1a855..150bb22 100644
--- a/doc/index.html
+++ b/doc/index.html
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
The Linux kernel must be 3.5 or later.
GNU make, version 3.81 or later
skalibs version
-2.6.0.0 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time
+2.6.0.2 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time
requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs
library.
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ library.
+
+This program is deprecated, and will disappear in a
+near future version of s6-linux-utils. It has been replaced with the
+mdevd-netlink
+program, from the mdevd
+package.
+
+
Interface
@@ -38,7 +46,7 @@ null characters, so a terminal will not display them correctly. To
properly use s6-uevent-listener, it should be piped into a handler
program such as
s6-uevent-spawner.
-
+or mdevd.
s6-uevent-listener is a long-lived program.
When it receives a SIGTERM, it stops listening; it will
exit as soon as it has flushed its event queue to stdout.
@@ -93,12 +101,12 @@ only program handling uevents, which means that
Examples of valid uses of s6-uevent-listener:
- s6-uevent-listener | s6-uevent-spawner mdev
-
+ - s6-uevent-listener | mdevd
- Those examples can be made safer by using a supervision system:
under s6 or
s6-rc, write a service
pipeline where s6-uevent-listener is a producer and
-s6-uevent-spawner mdev is a consumer. This
+s6-uevent-spawner mdev or mdevd is a consumer. This
setup has the advantage, among others, that you can restart the netlink
listener and the event handler separately.
diff --git a/doc/s6-uevent-spawner.html b/doc/s6-uevent-spawner.html
index f7a9d7b..6f2ab87 100644
--- a/doc/s6-uevent-spawner.html
+++ b/doc/s6-uevent-spawner.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
s6-linux-utils: the s6-uevent-spawner program
-
+
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ similarly to what the hotplug interface does.
s6-uevent-listener.
+
+This program is deprecated, and will disappear in a
+future version of s6-linux-utils. The
+mdevd package makes it
+obsolete.
+
+
Interface
diff --git a/doc/upgrade.html b/doc/upgrade.html
index 9ff53c3..7899dac 100644
--- a/doc/upgrade.html
+++ b/doc/upgrade.html
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
What has changed in s6-linux-utils
+ in 2.4.0.2
+
+
+ - skalibs dependency bumped to 2.6.0.2.
+
+
in 2.4.0.1