Kudzu is the Red Hat Linux hardware probing library, and the associated configuration program. The probing library is used by various system utilities, such as anaconda, Xconfigurator, and hwbrowser. The tool runs at system boot time to determine what hardware has been added or removed from the system.
You can get the kudzu source code in a variety of ways.
Via anonymous CVS.
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@rhlinux.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS
cvs -z3 login
(hit enter)
cvs -z3 co kudzu