Submitted by ENP has an article on Linux’s udev. “udev handles the task of detecting hardware and creating nodes for it in /dev, and also managing device permissions. It works in concert with the Linux Hardware Abstraction Layer and the hotplug subsystem. In effect, all devices, even internal drives and expansion cards, are treated as removable hotplug devices.”
Udev is one of the best and brightest things to ever happen to Linux or unii period. The quantum leap to making Linux, “just work right out of the box”. Thanks to everyone involved.
… udev is very powerful. For example, user set a hal policy to mount a Windows XP FAT32 partition in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ (the path might be different on other distribution). As a result, user does not need to manually modify fstab file.
Here is another example of udev use through HAL:
https://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/hal/
Remember that udev, HAL and DBUS are Utopia project:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745
yes. may the deities bless project utopia
Carla’s articles are always a joy to read. This lady knows her stuff and knows how to effectively present it.
Things are explained in a way that relative newbies should have no troulble picking them up. But there are always a few tidbits for us seasoned Unix/Linux admins, too.
Kudos!