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This is Task 05 of the Eudyptula Challenge ------------------------------------------ Yeah, you survived the coding style mess! Now, on to some "real" things, as I know you are getting bored by these so far. So, simple task this time around: - take the kernel module you wrote for task 01, and modify it so that when a USB keyboard is plugged in, the module will be automatically loaded by the correct userspace hotplug tools (which are implemented by depmod / kmod / udev / mdev / systemd, depending on what distro you are using....

This is Task 04 of the Eudyptula Challenge ------------------------------------------ Wonderful job in making it this far, I hope you have been having fun. Oh, you're getting bored, just booting and installing kernels? Well, time for some pedantic things to make you feel that those kernel builds are actually fun! Part of the job of being a kernel developer is recognizing the proper Linux kernel coding style. The full description of this coding style can be found in the kernel itself, in the Documentation/CodingStyle file....

This is Task 03 of the Eudyptula Challenge ------------------------------------------ Now that you have your custom kernel up and running, it's time to modify it! The tasks for this round is: - take the kernel git tree from Task 02 and modify the Makefile to and modify the EXTRAVERSION field. Do this in a way that the running kernel (after modifying the Makefile, rebuilding, and rebooting) has the characters "-eudyptula" in the version string....

This is Task 02 of the Eudyptula Challenge ------------------------------------------ Now that you have written your first kernel module, it's time to take off the training wheels and move on to building a custom kernel. No more distro kernels for you, for this task you must run your own kernel. And use git! Exciting isn't it! No, oh, ok... The tasks for this round is: - download Linus's latest git tree from git....

What is this? The Eudyptula Challenge is a series of programming exercises for the Linux kernel, that start from a very basic “Hello world” kernel module, moving on up in complexity to getting patches accepted into the main Linux kernel source tree. Unfortunately, this project is not accepting any new applicants right now. So I decided to gather tasks details from other online sources and complete them locally. Task-1 This is Task 01 of the Eudyptula Challenge ------------------------------------------ Write a Linux kernel module, and stand-alone Makefile, that when loaded prints to the kernel debug log level, "Hello World!...