how to bind an external temperature sensor with fan emc2103 in Linux. As emc2103 has its own temperature sensor which its use to control fan speed. but I want t
I'm considering using vfio instead of uio to access a PCI device from userspace code within a QEMU guest. Can Linux running as a x86_64 QEMU guest use the vfio
I am trying to build a set of Linux kernel modules with multiple source files: obj-m += mst_pciconf.o mst_pci.o mst-objs += nnt_device.o nnt_dma.o nnt_pci_conf_
To use memory mapped I/O, we need to first call request_mem_region. struct resource *request_mem_region( unsigned long start, u
From what I understand, a typical buffer overflow attack occurs when an attack overflows a buffer of memory on the stack, thus allowing the attacker to inject m
I am writing a kernel module and in it I have the following piece of code: dma_dev->coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(64); I do not always want 64 in there
Let's say I have paired and connected a Bluetooth headset successfully to my Linux system. I know I can check my Bluetooth device MAC id from
I am writing a custom block driver in the Linux kernel and in my make_request routine, on writes I need to read the data of the bio's specified sector (from the
It's strange that struct cdev has struct kobject member, do any body knows the reason?