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 ...

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 ...

I have an Ubuntu 17.04 VM running under ESXi to which I have several USB sticks and dongles used with my home automation system, OpenHAB. Two of the dongles (an 868Mhz RFXcom radio and a ZWave ...

I turned the logging on (thanks for the tip). Looking at the logs I do not see any evidence that udev is parsing the rules files I created (20-names.rules). Does udev have to be told to parse a file ...