Hardware, Devices, and Tools

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# Chapter 4. Hardware, Devices, and Tools

> "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix

This chapter gives an overview of what a device file is, and how to create one. The canonical list of device files is `/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt` if you have the Linux kernel source code installed on your system. The devices listed here are correct as of kernel version 2.6.8.

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