1. ANNOUNCE: kmod 2

    I’m glad to announce the second version of kmod.  I’m sorry for not sending the first version to the mailing lists. Now I’m both writing it here and sending to the mailing list.

    I thank very much the feedback received for the first version and that now Jon Masters, the maintainer of module-init-tools, is helping us with kmod and already announced that kmod will replace module-init-tools in future.

    I’d like to especially thank Tom Gundersen, Dave Reisner, Marco d’Itri, Jon Masters, Luis Strano, Jan Engelhardt and Kay Sievers who have been extensively testing kmod and …

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  2. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

    So, in last post I said kmod 2 could be released sooner than expected if there were major bugs. Not as much as a surprise, there was 1: depending on the alias passed to the lookup function we were blocked iterating a list.

    It’s now fixed in git tree. Thanks to Ulisses Furquim for fixing it and Dave Reisner for the bug report. We already have some other great stuff implemented so we’ll soon have another release.

    Another great news is that now we have the maintainer of module-init-tools (Jon Masters) cooperating with us. We will discuss how …

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  3. ANNOUNCE: kmod 1

    For some weeks now I and Gustavo Barbieri at ProFUSION have been working on a new library and a set of tools, libkmod and kmod respectively. This is the announcement of its first public release.

    Overview

    The goal of the new library libkmod is to offer to other programs the needed flexibility and fine grained control over insertion, removal, configuration and listing of kernel modules. Using the library, with simple pieces of code it’s possible to interact with kernel modules and then there’s no need to rely on other tools for that. This is a thing lacking on …

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  4. Becoming social…

    I’ve just installed a plugin in my blog to display the common social sites below each post. From now on, if you like a post you can share it with the world using your preferred social media.

    I’m using the Socialize plugin in WordPress. I’m not sure if it’s the best one: I just installed and checked it works. Any advices?

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  5. AndroidConf 2011

    Hoje dei uma palestra na AndroidConf sobre “Modificando a API do Android”. Referências ao projeto que falei sobre AVRCP podem ser encontradas em um post meu anterior. Estou disponibilizando abaixo os slides.

    EDIÇÃO 02/12/2011: coloquei uma nota no slide 7, relatando o que falei durante a apresentação sobre uso de IDE.

    Para aqueles que não conseguem visualizar acima, segue o link direto para a apresentação.

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