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by zh3 1034 days ago
Not true (although maybe in the systemd world?). udev just populates /dev dynamically (rather than having to create all the /dev/ entries manually/via scripts).

Even udev is optional (upon upon a time, adding a new device involved knowing the right 'mknod' invocation in order to be able to connect to it - udev sort-of solves that).