History Some form of module support has been around since Linux 1.2. However, modern kernels can be built to include support for things or support them as modules.

What are Linux modules? Kernel modules are chunks of code that are loaded and unloaded into the kernel as needed, thus extending the functionality of the kernel without requiring a reboot. In fact ...

Our objective in this chapter is to introduce the basics of Linux device drivers. We’ll begin with the concept of installable kernel modules. Then we’ll look at the basic device driver APIs in the ...

Module 5: System administration User account management, Linux directory service account authentication, process management, system monitoring commands and terminal commands Module 6: Shell scripting ...

For the last few years now, we’ve all had access to tiny, affordable Systems on a Module. These wunderchips are complete Linux systems with WiFi, a halfway decent GPU, and enough memory to ru… ...

In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...

The distributed security module is part of DSI. The purpose of implementing DSM is to enforce access control and to provide labeling for the IP messages across the nodes of the cluster with the ...

Linux seller evicts closed-source modules from open-source Linux, but provides customers a download option. Written by Stephen Shankland, Contributor Aug. 1, 2006, 4:12 a.m. PT ...