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...
With the wide variety of more “modern” development tools such as github, gerrit, and other methods of software development, why is the Linux kernel team still stuck in the 1990’s with ancient requirements of plain text email in order to get patches accepted? This talk...
Building a full kernel takes time but is often necessary during development or when backporting patches. The nature of the kernel makes it easy to distribute its build on multiple cheap machines. This presentation will explain how to set up a build farm based on cost,...
The Linux driver model was created over a decade ago with the goal of unifying all hardware drivers in the kernel in a way to provide both consitant device naming and properly power management control. This talk will go into how well those goals were reached, how the...
