Kernels from the 2.1 series

[Paul Crowley <paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk>]

I'm thinking of moving over to the 2.1 series kernels, since it seems
that they're pretty stable these days.  Will this make life very much
harder for me?

In particular:

* I believe I'll need this new "kmod" thing rather than the "kerneld"
that I'm used to.  Do I already have this installed?  Do I need a
special package?

* I've heard talk of a change to the behaviour of "chown" that breaks
dpkg.  Do I need a special dpkg?  A special kernel patch?

* Will ps, mount, etc keep going without change?

* Anything I don't know about?

thanks in advance,
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