The kernel, however, including modules, has no such restriction. That can make debugging modules tricky because you can easily bring the system to its knees.

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 ...

Although Linux does not (yet) support this binary format, the good news is that you can learn how to write kernel modules by implementing COM support for the Linux kernel.

Nevertheless, it seems that many Unix/Linux programmers rely heavily on printf () and its kernel equivalent printk () . At the kernel level this makes good sense. Keep in mind of course that printk () ...

Doing the same with 4.15.7 and 4.14.23 works for some 3rd party modules (for instance, ZFS) but not with others, like the driver for the RTL8812au WIFI adapter (or even the host kernel extensions ...

This includes such things as whenever an inode is accessed, a module is loaded or a task is created. As of the 2.5.31 kernel, there were 88 different function pointers needed. The majority of these ...

Alexei Starovoitov posted some patches to allow the kernel to load regular ELF binaries (aka plain executables) as kernel modules. These modules would be able to run user-mode helper routines instead ...