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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 /NEWS
parent4fad506ed8c963d20ae3f78c7d34fd4fd80272f9 (diff)
require 2.6.22+ kernel
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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