The removal of the TIMEOUT= handling in udevd put firmware requests into the
devpath parent/child dependency tracking. Drivers which block in module_init()
asking userspace for firmware ran into a 30 sec device timeout.
The whole firmware loading willl hopefully move into the kernel and
the fragile-since-day-one fake async driver-core device dance involving
udev can be retired:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e
If the final key in any sysctl.d file is a duplicate, systemd-sysctl
will exit with an error (and no explaination why). Ignore this, as
duplicate keys are to be expected when overriding settings in the
directory hierarchy.
This allows unprivileged clients to check for the used virtualization
even when lacking the privileges that some of the virtualization tests
require.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684801
No longer override the default kernel keymap if nothing is specified in
vconsole.conf.
The default should be to do nothing (i.e., use what is already in the
kernel) unless the distro/admin has explicitly requested it.
No longer override the default kernel font if nothing is specified in
vconsole.conf.
The default kernel font[0] provides ISO-8859-1 and box characters. Users
of Arabic, Cyrilic or Hebrew must set a different font manually as these
character sets were provided by the old default font [1], but are not
any longer.
Rationale:
* it is counter-intuitive that an empty vconsole.conf file is different
from adding FONT="";
* the version of the default font shipped with Arch (which is the
upstream one) behaves very badly during early boot[2] (which should
admittedly be fixed in the font itself);
* the kernel already supplies a default font, it seems reasonable to
use that unless anything else is specified;
* This also avoids a needless slow call to setfont; and
* We don't want to work around problems in the kernel (in case the
compiled-in font is not acceptable for whatever reason).
[0]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel.bdf>
[1]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/latarcyrheb.bdf>
[2]: <http://i.imgur.com/J2tM4.jpg>
As audit is pretty much just a special kind of logging we should treat
it similar, and manage the audit fd in a static variable.
This simplifies the audit fd sharing with the SELinux access checking
code quite a bit.
a) Instead of parsing the bus messages inside of selinux-access.c
simply pass everything pre-parsed in the functions
b) implement the access checking with a macro that resolves to nothing
on non-selinux builds
c) split out the selinux checks into their own sources
selinux-util.[ch]
d) this unifies the job creation code behind the D-Bus calls
Manager.StartUnit() and Unit.Start().
d4e9eb91ea changed the behavior for the F and f actions, wrongly sending
them to glob_item(). Restore the old behavior and shortcut straight to
write_one_file().
