On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:36:51PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > And could you please explain how udev is working? I don't know anything > about it. udev manages the /dev tree from userspace based on the kernel information in sysfs. A good summary of it is at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7316 There's also some older info linked off of: www.kroah.com/linux/ to an OLS paper, an OLS presentation, and a more recent OSCON presentation on it. Hope this helps explain it. thanks, greg k-h