Editing Udev (section)

==Rationale==
It is an [[operating system]]'s [[Kernel (operating system)|kernel]] that is responsible for providing an abstract interface of the hardware to the rest of the software. Being a [[monolithic kernel]], the [[Linux kernel]] does exactly that: [[device driver]]s are part of the Linux kernel, and make up more than half of its source code.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marti |first1=Don |title=Are top Linux developers losing the will to code? |url=http://www.computerworlduk.com/applications/are-top-linux-developers-losing-the-will-to-code-604/ |website=ComputerworldUK |access-date=2 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160719164322/http://www.computerworlduk.com/applications/are-top-linux-developers-losing-the-will-to-code-604/ |archive-date=19 July 2016 |language=en-GB |date=2 July 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Hardware can be accessed through [[system call]]s or over their [[device node]]s.

To be able to deal with peripheral devices that are [[hotplug]]-capable in a user-friendly way, a part of handling all of these hotplug-capable hardware devices was handed over from the kernel to a [[daemon (computing)|daemon]] running in user-space. Running in user space serves security and stability purposes.