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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.
We are currently merging the Ubuntu rules in the udev default rules,
and get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup regarding
and get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup, regarding
device names, symlinks, and default device permissions. On udev startup,
we now expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids by
we now expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids with
glibc's getgrnam():
disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
LDAP setups need to make sure, that these groups are always resolvable at
bootup, with only the rootfs mounted, and without network access available.
Some systems may need to add some new, currently not used groups, or need
to add some users to new groups, but the cost of this change is minimal,
compared to the pain the current, rather random, differences between the
various distributions cause for upstream projects and third-party vendors.
In general, "normal" users who log into a machine should never be a member
of any such group, but the device-access should be managed by dynamic ACLs,
which get added and removed for the specific users on login/logout and
session activity/inactivity. These groups are only provided for custom setups,
and mainly system services, to allow proper privilege separation.
A video-streaming daemon uid would be a member of "audio" and "video", to get
access to the sound and video devices, but no "normal" user ever belongs in
the "audio" group, because he could listen to the built-in microphone with
any ssh-session established from the other side of the world.
/dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices,
which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique
@ -26,6 +36,12 @@ and can only be found reliably in the by-path/ directory. Devices
specified by by-path/ must not change their connection, like the
USB port number they are plugged in, to keep their name.
To support some 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.
udev 135
========
Bugfixes.

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be mounted at /sys/. No other locations are supported by udev.
- The system must have the following group names resolvable at udev startup:
disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem
disk, cdrom, floppy, tape, audio, video, lp, tty, dialout, kmem.
Especially in LDAP setups, it is required, that getgrnam() is able to resolve
these group names while no network is available.
these group names with only the rootfs mounted, and while no network is
available.
Operation:
Udev creates and removes device nodes in /dev/, based on events the kernel