/usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/ Current File: //usr/share/doc/libsysfs-2.1.0/ChangeLog
18/07/2006 - Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
		* Add subsystem in sysfs_device

07/07/2006 - Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
		* Add C++ compilation suport

28/06/2006 - Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
		* Add sysfs_open_device_tree()

17/04/2006 - Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
		* Add sysfs_open_link_list()

12/07/2005 - Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
		* Minor code cleanup in sysfs_class.c to conform to C99

12/06/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Ship systool.1
		* Update README CREDITS, AUTHORS, libsysfs.txt, systool.1

12/05/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Add support for class:class_device representation

11/28/2005 - Kay Sievers <Kay.Sievers@vrfy.org>
		* Remove stale brute force code to determine device's
			bus and device's driver

11/28/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Add sysfs_get_driver_module()
		* Remove sysfs_open_module_attr()

11/25/2005 - Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
		* Documentation update
		* Add missing function prototype in libsysfs.h

11/25/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Other autotool updates

11/25/2005 - Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
		* KLIBC support for sysfsutils

11/14/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* More class_devices now have a "parent"

11/14/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Handle nested classes transparently

10/31/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Check-in Mohan's dlist custom sorter + dlist memory leak fix

10/31/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Check-in Dan's detach_state removal patch for 2_0_0 tag

05/05/2005 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Moved sysfs_dir.c to sysfs_attr.c

05/05/2005 - Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
		* The check which tests whether the value to be written
			into a sysfs attribute is already there should only
			trigger if the length of both strings is the same.

05/03/2005 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Added modules support to systool
		* Renamed get_attributes_list() function to
			get_dev_attributes_list() function
		* Added new get_attributes_list() function that takes
			a dlist and a path to directory of attributes
		* Modified sysfs_module to grab parameters and sections
			using new get_attributes_list() function
		* Removed device children support from systool

05/03/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
	 	* Implemented /sys/modules support

04/11/2005 - Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
		* Update for building with klibc and udev, plus other small
			fixes.

03/06/2005 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* sysfs_directory, sysfs_link baggage is gone
		* When an attribute is requested, _only_ that attribute
			is "stat"ed and read
		* APIs have been audited and only the relevent ones
			have been retained.
		* Fixed sysfs mount point to /sys

04/06/2005 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Merged tag sysfsutils-1_3_0 with main trunk
		* Created new sysfsutils-2_0_0 branch

01/17/2005 - Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
		* Fix dlist.c so it compiles with older gcc versions

12/16/2004 - Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
		* Fix sysfs_get_classdev_attr() for case when the
			sysfs_directory vanishes from beneath us

11/18/2004 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Check "driver" link under the device dir before
			taking the "brute-force" route

10/03/2004 - Arun Bhanu <arun@codemovers.org>
		* docs - fix wrong return type in sysfs_read_dir_subdirs

09/13/2004 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Patch systool to print error if sysfs
			is not mounted

09/10/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Changed version number in package files
			to 1.2.0

08/31/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Fix sysfs_open_link() failure path

08/16/2004 - Eric J Bohm <bohm@gate.csgeeks.org>
		* Custom sorting dlists patch

08/16/2004 - Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
		* Fix sysfs write only attributes bug

07/16/2004 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
	* Merged version 1.2.0 into main tree
	* Tagged new branch - version 1.2.0

03/31/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* More updates to docs/libsysfs.txt
		* Updated NEWS and CREDITS files

03/19/2004 - Dr. Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
		* Fixed SEGV in dlist.c

03/15/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Updated docs/libsysfs.txt for release 1.1.0

03/12/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Modified string functions to use wrappers to take care
			of potential buffer overflow issues

03/08/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Remove "unsigned" declarations for prototype
			compatibility per Lev Makhlis' suggestion

03/08/2004 - Lev Makhlis <mlev@despammed.com>
		* Changes for C++ compatibility

03/08/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Changed version number in configure.ac to 1.1.0

03/08/2004 - Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
		* Don't check for installed libsysfs while building
			sysfsutils from the source package

02/24/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added validation code for test defines
		* Updated the README, libsyfs.txt and NEWS files
		* Provided descriptive comments for the libsysfs.conf file

02/19/2004 - Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
		* Fixed memory leak in sysfs_read_attribute()

02/19/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Set errnos correctly in the library
		* Provided libsysfs.conf - the config file for the testsuite
			and a script to create a test.h on the fly
		* Added numerous testsuite updates

02/13/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Patched code to fill sysfs_device->driver_name correctly

02/12/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added Nitin Vashisth to AUTHORS
		* Removed lsbus and its manpage
		* Updated systool for better display
		* Updated manpage for systool

02/10/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Updated docs/libsysfs.txt

02/09/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added testsuite in "test" directory
		* Updated autotool scripts to build testsuite
		* Changed version number to 1.0.0

02/09/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Fixed miscellaneous issues in sysfs_device/driver.c sources

02/04/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added list sorting support
		* Exported get_device_bus()
		* Removed sysfs_open_bus_device()
		* Other cosmetic changes

01/07/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Modified parameter order for "open" functions to make them
			consistent

01/07/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added additional CFLAGS for building lib and apps

01/07/2004 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added numerous "refresh" functions
		* Added funtion to remove trailing slash from paths
		* Fixed sysfs_get_link() to handle different possibilities

01/07/2004 - Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
		* Fixed sysfs_get_class_device()

12/26/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Removed unneeded functions
		* Added APIs to get directory links, subdirs and attribs

12/17/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Updated docs/libsysfs.txt for 0.4.0
		* Made some miscallaneous changes in library

12/16/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Added sysfs_get_device_parent() function

12/15/2003 - Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
		* Added initial version of manpages for lsbus and systool

12/15/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Updated autotools for 0.4.0 - shared library will now
			have version-info
		* Fixed miscllaneous issues with library files
		* Fixed names.c, systool.c and lsbus.c to free all allocated
			memory

12/12/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Miscllaneous changes - added new function definitions,
			general code cleanup

12/12/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Changed function prototypes for sysfs_open_* calls that
			accept absolute path to have _path suffix
		* Changed function prototypes that take the device/driver
			bus/class and name to be normal sysfs_open_xxx()
		* Changed sysfs_close_cls_dev() to be a static function

12/12/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added function to open a driver knowing its name
			and the bus it is on

12/10/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added more optimization changes
		* Added code to add and refresh attributes dynamically

12/08/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Patched code for directory/attribute read optimization

12/05/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Remove unused argument from sysfs_get_device_by_id()

12/02/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Simplified routine to get bus a device is on

12/02/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Patched code to use already available functions for
			optimization.

12/02/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Corrected sysfs_get_directory_attribute()

12/01/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Removed usage of _DIR #defines
		* Added functionality to obtain parent of a class device
		* Added get_classdev_parent.c in test/. This file is not
			built by default as of now

11/27/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Updated library and utilities with the optimization patch

11/24/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Removed getpagesize() usage (Dan)
		* Added patch to postpone reading of attributes until
			absolutely necessary
		* Cleaned up sysfs_driver.c
		* Changed stale sysutils references to sysfsutils

11/04/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added code to consider "block" part of "class"
		* Fixed systool to show driver details (if available)
			when listing the class device
		* Added bus to struct sysfs_device
		* Modified "read_attr" functions for device/driver/classdev
			to return a sysfs_attribute
		* Modified test functions, added a test function to
			demonstrate usage of "write" attribute functions
		* Updated libsysfs.txt to reflect latest updates to the
			library

10/27/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Fixed bug in sysfs_get_name_from_path()
		* Added code to check if SYSFS_PATH environment variable
			is set
		* Modified sysfs_get_link()
		* Added "classname" to struct sysfs_class_device

10/22/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Removed "block" subsystem support

10/20/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added code to install header files (from include dir)
			to /usr/local/include/ directory
		* Added "read_attr" functions for device, driver and
			class; simplified "write_attr" handling
		* Made sysfs_get_directory_attribute() recurse subdirs
		* Fixed potential bugs in sysfs_dir.c

10/17/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Added "path" to device in sysfs_device structure

10/15/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Fixed bug in sysfs_block.c (initrd)
		* Fixed possible bug in systool.c

10/15/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Changed get_devices_list to get_bus_devices_list
		* Fixed usage messages in tests

10/15/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added support for building shared library

10/14/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Changed version number to 0.3.0
		* Cleanups to remove warnings
		* Remove perror usage

10/10/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Modified the way systool displayed block devices

10/09/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Updated docs/libsysfs.txt
		* Fixed warning in cmd/names.c
		* Modified "write" attribute functions to accept
			length to write as a parameter
		* Added functions sysfs_get_driver_attr(),
			sysfs_get_blockdev_attr(), sysfs_get_classdev_attr()

10/07/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Miscellaneous changes - renaming of some
			functions, etc

10/06/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Pruned "test" routines
		* Corrected pci name decode in cmds

10/01/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added number of utility routines in "test" directory
		* Adapted PCI name decode support from Martin Mares'
			pciutils

09/30/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Modified routines to find device/driver on a bus
		* Made some miscellaneous changes to use #defines
			instead of hardcoding values

09/29/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added "block" subsystem support
		* Modified systool to use sysfs_root_device

09/24/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added "write" attribute functions specific to device,
			driver and class device.
		* Removed generic write function
			sysfs_change_attribue_value()
		* Changed sysfs_open_device_by_name() to
			sysfs_change_device_by_id()

09/23/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Fixed "write" attribute functions.
		* Removed sysfs_write_attribute_value()
		* Added sysfs_change_attribute_value() - a wrapper for
			sysfs_write_attribute()
		* Simplified sysfs_get_device_attr()

09/16/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Patch sysfs_close_driver() so as not to segfault when
			during dlist shifting.

09/15/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added sysfs_open_device_by_name() to open a device
			given the device name
		* Modified "name" field of sysfs_device to contain same
			data as the "bus_id" field

09/11/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added sysfs_open_driver_by_name() to open a driver and
			its device, given the driver name

09/09/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added sysfs_find_device_class() to find what class a
			device is on

09/05/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Add sysfs_open_bus_devices_list()
		* Simplify sysfs_find_device_bus_name()

09/04/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Simplified sysfs_open_bus_device

08/29/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Removed "bus_name" from struct sysfs_device
		* Updated NEWS, TODO and docs/libsysfs.txt files

08/28/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added more utility functions to sysfsutils
		* Modified commands to make use of the new functions
		* Updated libsysfs.txt to reflect new structure modifications
		* Added sysfs_open_subsystem_list() to get subsystem specific
			lists from the library
		* Added sysfs_close_list() - a generic list deletion routine

08/28/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Added sysfs_root_device struct for modelling /sys/devices
			path.

08/28/2003 - Guo Min <min.guo@intel.com>
		* Added "write" attribute support to sysfsutils

08/28/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Changed sysfs_driver to contain a dlist of devices

08/28/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Removed sysfs_driver reference from sysfs_device struct
		* Fixed a few bugs in the commands.

08/19/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Integrated Eric Bohm's dlist patch
		* Integrated Eric Bohm's follow on patch adding dlist_for_each
		* Changed chars to unsigned chars
		* Reworked structures to be neater and to contain
			sysfs_directories as private structures
		* Added more functions for retrieving data like attributes
		* Added some find functions

08/06/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Patch to correct dprintf usage

08/01/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added autoconf configuration support
		* Modified IBM Copyright information

08/01/2003 - Released version 0.1.1

07/24/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Changed sysutils name to sysfsutils

07/23/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Changed sysfs_dlink to sysfs_link, got rid of
			sysfs_directory link for target char path.

07/18/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Changed default systool and lsbus to just print
			device info. Device info already prints drivers.

07/10/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
	     Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
		* Added printing binary attribute support to systool
			and lsbus

07/09/2003 - Lev Makhlis <mlev@despammed.com>
		* Libsysfs code cleanup including:
			- code simplification
			- read-only strings
			- C++ compatibility
	   - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
		* Removed "-t" option

07/08/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
	* Created NEWS file listing version history

07/07/2003 - Daniel Stekloff <dsteklof@us.ibm.com>
	* Merged version 0.1.0 into main tree
	* Tagged new branch - version 0.1.1

07/07/2003 - Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
	* Added parent reference to sysfs_device
	* Added device reference to sysfs_driver

06/30/2003 - Initial Version Released