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 ...

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 ...

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 ...