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 ...
I'm running ubuntu 8.04 with 6 hard drives (2 scsi, 1 ata, and 3 sata). Ubuntu's udev sets these to /dev/sd[a-f] (even the ATA drive is an sd rather than an hd). The problem is each time I boot up, ...
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 ...