Today’s Diminutive Device is a small castellated System-On-Module (Twitter link, nitter proxy) from [MangoPi] called M-Core, with a quad-core A53 CPU and 1 GB of RAM. As such, it’s very… ...

Other commands for examining modules. Linux provides several commands for listing, loading and unloading, examining, and checking the status of modules. depmod — generates modules.dep and map files; ...

What’s more, is because module_param specifies 0644 — an octal Linux permission — there will be an entry in the /sys/modules directory that will let the root set or read the value of the key.

Blacklisting modules prevents them from being loaded and used, and it is sometimes an important step in keeping a system running properly. The Linux kernel is modular — composed of modules that ...

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 ...

Hi,Is there a way to unload a busy module in linux, when I'm trying rmmod, I get a message saying the ressource is busy, but the module is not unload.ThanksNic ...

We are implementing cluster-aware access-control mechanisms as a Linux loadable module. Our work in this area will help position Linux as a secure operating system for clustered servers. Our work is ...

Editor's Note: Linux remains an attractive option for embedded systems developers. In fact, industry surveys such as the Embedded Market Study by UBM (EDN's parent company) consistently show interest ...