IT Pays To Be a Linux Expert
The IT industry is expected to hire many more Linux professionals this year, and to take extra measures to retain Linux talent within organisations. LINUX For You digs into their pockets and finds…
Device Drivers, Part 17: Module Interactions
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, demonstrates various interactions with a Linux module. As Shweta and Pugs gear up for their final semester’s project on Linux drivers,…
Device Drivers, Part 16: Kernel Window — Peeping through /proc
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, demonstrates the creation and usage of files under the /proc virtual filesystem. After many months, Shweta and Pugs got together for…
Linux Kernel Development Using Git
This article looks at setting up Git and using it for Linux kernel development. It is aimed at developers who would like to move their development environment to Git SCM. I assume that…
Understanding a Kernel Oops!
Understanding a kernel panic and doing the forensics to trace the bug is considered a hacker’s job. This is a complex task that requires sound knowledge of both the architecture you are working…
Kernel Tracing with ftrace, Part 1
This article explains how to set up ftrace and be able to understand how to trace functions. It should be useful for current kernel developers and device driver developers who want to debug…
Debugging the Linux Kernel with debugfs
debugfs is a simple memory-based filesystem, designed specifically to debug Linux kernel code, and not to be confused with the debugfs filesystem utility. Introduced by Greg Kroah-Hartman in December 2004, debugfs helps kernel…
May 21, 2013
JKR — More efficient? Probably. More readable? Definitely not.
May 21, 2013
Prashanth Joshi — The author assumes that the first article being introductory in nature is for the beginners. So there is no question...
May 21, 2013
Peter — Hi I followed the steps but on bootup of qemu it hangs at "Stopping configure virtual network devices, waiting for...
May 20, 2013
Aseem — can u just elaborate this part "edit the output file to include only the hash value. (It should only include...
May 19, 2013
raghu ram — Hi Anil, Your articles are awesome Please give some tutorials on PCI Sound Card drivers using ALSA.
