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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
s a free book; you may reproduce and/or modify it under the terms of the Open Software License, version 3.0. This book is distributed in the hope that it would be useful, but without any warranty, without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
The author encourages wide distribution of this book for personal or commercial use, provided the above copyright notice remains intact and the method adheres to the provisions of the Open Software License. Numerous modern computers arrive pre-configured with UEFI SecureBoot enabled—an essential security standard ensuring booting exclusively through trusted software endorsed by the original equipment manufacturer. Originally designed to allow easy access to information about processes (hence the name), it is now used by every bit of the kernel which has something interesting to report, such as /proc/modules which provides the list of modules and /proc/meminfo which gathers memory usage statistics.
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