Forum: Kernel

A 2.4.x driver for the IBM EtherJet PC-Card NIC (cs89x0_cs) chang for 2.6.X driver for the IBM EtherJet PC-Card NIC how to rewrite cs89x0_cs.c ...

Hello all, this is my first post here as i've always found the answers i needed before. Hope you can help me out with this one! I have gotten most...

I am looking for a flow of the most important function calls when IPsec is active, I am talking about net/ipv4/ip_input.c and net/ipv4/ip_output.c...

Messing about with the kernel earlier, I discovered ALSA won't work (alsaconf doesn't detect my card) if it is compiled statically. With the exact...

Hi, I need a confirmation that I got this right: 1. A thread gets created and put on a run queue, put there by class specific enqueue_task(),...

hi all, I am having a device driver which is used in kernel 2.4 for two different usb1.1 devices (i build two drivers using same source using...

Hi Everyone, Could anybody guide me about how exactly the proc file system is updated.. the interfaces ( the kernel functions ) called for updating...

Hi, I am new to Linux world.I know the basic commands in Unix.and I want to develop a c program using Unix command .plz send me the example...

Hi, I've been playing with ways to drive a stepper motor by writing a device driver, which works well if I have a calling process that writes to a...

Hi , I am a novice programmer in Device Driver and Kernel Programming.I have come through a function in arrayq.c whose main work is to put element...

Hi All, I'm a new aspiring device driver programming learner. I have downloaded scull source code ( of Alessandro Rubini: linux device drivers...

Ok, this is strange. I recently upgraded (from source) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.24. Everything seems to work OK (finally), except... whenever I launch an...

I didn't want to start a new thread for this, but I haven't stumbled across the answer otherwise... If I, say, have no use whatsoever for SCSI...

Hi, I basically know about the kernel capabilieties. They can be set for Processes to give them rights to overgo the DAC-rights, do kills and so...

Iperf client calls write() to send a message to iperf server. My aim - is to find out the way the information goes thru the kernel. First of all, i...

Hi All! I started to develop an own solution to protect the memory of processes against manipulation and other memory problems or attacks. It may...

Hi, I have a problem which I can't solve even after googling and reading through the available and relevant information that I can find. I hope...

hello guys. I am quite new to kernel programming and I m doing some project where i have to create one kernel module that creates 2 hash tables. How...