I am writing a simple character device driver. (kernel 2.6.26) Multiple concurrent reader & writers are expected.
Is there any limitation on \"open\" based on file size. ? My file size is 2 GB will it open successfull开发者_StackOverflowy and is there any timing issue can come ?
I am a new comer开发者_运维知识库 to Linux Kernel Module programming. From the material that I have read so far, I have found that there are 3 ways for a user program to request services or to communi
when i read linux kernel source, i found one line says: #define NCP_SUPER_MAGIC0x564c/* Guess, what 0x564c is :-) */
I recently downloaded linux source from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.34.1.tar.bz2 . I came across the below paragraph in the file called spinlocks.txt in linux-2.6.34.1\\Docum
I think many developers like to investigate sources with the help of git gui blame. As explained in the commit for Linux-2.6.12-rc2 (also mirrored at Github), it needs to have special histo开发者_如何
I need to write a kernel module that is not a device driver. Th开发者_如何学编程at module will be communicating with some user space processes. As I dont want to use ioctl(), I am left with either cre
I want to implement an 开发者_JAVA技巧atomic function in C language, so that the process or thread will not be preempted while executing the function.If you\'re in the kernel and you really need to di
I\'m trying to understand a wireless lin开发者_开发问答ux device driver. So after netdev_open is called...
i have ubuntu installed on the lenovo s10e netbook. I am not sure if this is related to the issue. I am new to source builds so I would appreciate some direction. I followed instructions on cyanogen\'