udev 107 release

Here comes a new udev version. Thanks to all who have contributed to this release.

The tarball can be found here:
  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/

The development repository can be found here:
  http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=sum...

The ChangeLog can be found here:
  http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=blob;...

udev 107
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Bugfixes.

Symlinks can have priorities now, the priority is assigned to the device
and specified with OPTIONS="link_priority=100". Devices with higher
priorities overwrite the symlinks of devices with lower priorities.
If the device that currently owns the link, goes away, the symlink
will be removed, and recreated, pointing to the next device with the
highest actual priority. This should make /dev/disk/by-{label,uuid,id}
more reliable, if multiple devices contain the same metadata and overwrite
these symlinks.

The dasd_id program is removed from the udev tree, and dasdinfo, with the
needed rules, are part of the s390-tools now.

Please add KERNEL=="[0-9]*:[0-9]*" to the scsi wait-for-sysfs rule,
we may get the scsi sysfs mess fixed some day, and this will only catch
the devices we are looking for.

USB serial numbers for storage devices have the target:lun now appended,
to make it possibble to distinguish broken multi-lun devices with all
the same SCSI identifiers.

Note: The extra "run_directory" which searches and executes stuff in
/etc/hotplug.d/ and /etc/dev.d/ is long deprecated, and will be removed
with the next release. Make sure, that you don't use it anymore, or
provides your own implementation of that inefficient stuff.
We are tired of reports about a "slow udev", because these directories
contain stuff, that runs with _every_ event, instead of using rules,
that run programs only for the matching events.



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