Re: release notes: How to upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6
From: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 21:52, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Also:
> > > - If they have gnome installed (or more general: if udev is
> > > installed), switching to 2.6 will activate udev.
> >
> > Should not be a concern, though, unless there are outstanding bugs that
> > haven't been fixed.
>
> I had ownership/permissions change on some devices which needed manual
> fixing when I activated udev. Nothing spectacular: customized
> ownership/permissions on tun interface lost; and ownership on slamr from
> sl-modem (#308488) which is probably not in Woody.
Notice that with udev there is no /dev/video and /dev/radio, which
exist in non-udev setup and are used by applications, which will then fail
after upgrading to udev.
See bugs 298555 and 296858.
Regards,
David
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