The video4linux subsystem of the kernel is a very large API with many ioctls, settings, options and capabilities. This poses a problem both for the kernel developer and for the application developer. Since early this year major improvements have been made to both the...
The Linux graphics stack is constantly evolving to add support for new hardware. This evolution and new software specifications have forced the X graphical server to be split into several components including a now rotates in the Linux kernel, the Direct Rendering...
This talk will go into the latest statistics for the development of the Linux kernel. It will describe how the many thousand developers all work together and are able to release a stable kernel every 3 months with no...
Nftables is a new packet filtering framework which aims at replacing iptables. It has been developed by the Netfilter team who wanted after 10 years of development to get rid of iptables. After a successful introduction in the 3.13 kernel and more than one year in...
The traditional KISS principle says that you are stupid if you can’t keep it simple. However, keeping it simple is actually very, very hard. But my lasting impression after reading a lot of code (linux kernel and otherwise) over the years is that there is no excuse...
