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 ...

Starting with the 2.5 kernel, all physical and virtual devices in a system are visible to user space in a hierarchal fashion through sysfs. /sbin/hotplug provides a notification to user space when any ...

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 ...