Udev tells Linux what names to use for devices, how to set the ownership and permissions, and which kernel modules it needs to use them. But who configures udev: the kernel developers or the ...

Once upon a time, a Linux distribution would be installed with a /dev directory fully populated with device files. Most of them represented hardware which would never be present on the installed ...

There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was it. Now, though, people plug and unplug USB devices all the time and ...

udev can not be described fully in this short article. The full release of udev is available at www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug. It also has been ...