Loading a module into a running kernel is rather invasive, which is part of why the operation is restricted in various ways. For the most part, it requires root privileges (or the CAP_SYS_MODULE ...

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 ...

I have been running Debian a few years now but haven't really dug into the proper way to handle kernel modules in regards to auto-loading/unloading (i'll get to this) and the setup of modules.conf. I ...

Way back when, 8 months ago, as I was first setting up this box, I read how to configure things so that the system would automatically load a kernel module on demand. Now I've got a second box and can ...

Linux capabilities are still a work in progress. They have been in the kernel for a long time—since the 2.1 days in 1998—but for various reasons, it has taken more than a decade for distributions to ...