I would like to hook into, intercept, and generate keyboard (make/break) events under Linux before they get delivered to any application. More precisely, I want to detect patterns in the key event str
I am new to linux driver andwriting a char driver for hardware. What is the exact way to prevent interrupt(software/hardwa开发者_开发百科re) jamming in while the driver functions (eg. ioctl) is execu
I am tracking down a \"scheduling while atomic\" error in one of our drivers, and am wondering if ioctl\'s are an atomic context.Also if any one has anything to share on how to get into and out of ato
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I am new to device driver development. I am trying to access the GPIO of MPC837xERDB eval board. I have upgraded its kernel to linux-2.6.28.9 and enable support for mpc8xxx_gpio.c. On boot up, it suc
Are there any re开发者_开发技巧strictions on memory usage by a Linux Kernel Module i.e Code Segment size or amount of global memory or any thing.
I am currenlty trying to monitor my battery status through SMBus. I have a battery along with a control board that constantly outputs the battery status.
I am trying to write a linux kernel module that communicates with user process using netlink. I am using netlink because the user program I want to communicate to communicates only using sockets and I
I am writing a simple character device driver. (kernel 2.6.26) Multiple concurrent reader & writers are expected.