This was not a real fix but a workaround. It is no longer clear to me why this was necessary. Deleting the patch restores the upstream behaviour of the collected for the smart plugin. I have tested it and on my system the hard disk to be monitored is recognised. root@system ~ # cat /sys/class/block/sda/uevent MAJOR=8 MINOR=0 DEVNAME=sda DEVTYPE=disk Signed-off-by: Florian Eckert <fe@dev.tdt.de>lilik-openwrt-22.03