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 ...

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 ...

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 ...