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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-01-03 15:35:41 +0100
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-01-03 15:35:41 +0100
commit19f8fd9088f02c672f42cf1005c43cb5aac18e93 (patch)
treea5ec2e37f5f8d14614c091e4116c9b936252f40e
parent4fad506ed8c963d20ae3f78c7d34fd4fd80272f9 (diff)
require 2.6.22+ kernel
-rw-r--r--NEWS7
-rw-r--r--README2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c59d93c55d..76aec06472 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ udev 136
========
Bugfixes.
+For some more advanced features Linux 2.6.22 is the oldest supported
+version now. The kernel config with enabled SYSFS_DEPRECATED
+is no longer supported. Older kernels should still work, and devices
+nodes should be reliably created, but some rules and libudev will
+not work correctly because the old kernels do not provide the expected
+information or interfaces.
+
/dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices,
which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique
devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real
diff --git a/README b/README
index 0add462f31..a253ccfb4f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Important Note:
recommend to replace a distro's udev installation with the upstream version.
Requirements:
- - Version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of
+ - Version 2.6.22 of the Linux kernel for reliable operation of this release of
udev. The kernel must not use the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option.
- The kernel must have sysfs, unix domain sockets and networking enabled.