The kernelci.org project performs over 2000 kernel boot tests per day for upstream kernels on a wide variety of hardware. This talk will provide an overview of kernelci.org, how distributed board farms are used, how it is used by kernel maintainers and developers,...
Linux has multiple access-control features, which help to contain the damage from a malicious process. However, it is difficult and complex, especially for unprivileged users, to create a sandboxed application because of the currently administrator-oriented security....
The Linux man-pages project lives on the boundary between two worlds that are not always mutually intelligible: the kernel and user-space programs. One subgoal of that project is to allow the two worlds to hold mutually intelligible conversations. Living on this...
The hwmon subsystem originates from the 1998 project lm-sensors. Along the way, there have been a lot of effort done to have all drivers present a standard interface to user-space, and consolidate the common plumbing into an easy-to-use, hard-to-get-wrong API. The...
