Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

C P Vijay Kumar

Steven T Roth

Aswin Chandramouleeswaran

Daniel R Mathias

Lisa M Nishiyama

Harshavardhan R Kuntur

Arun Krishna

Douglas K Eldred

Naomi A Munekawa

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for kernel configurations. One embodiment includes a kernel configuration tool, a system file accessible by the kernel configuration tool, and means for recovering kernel configurations without the use of a manually creating a 'known good post update' kernel configuration.

Kernel configuration recovery

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for kernel configurations. One embodiment includes a kernel configuration tool, a system file accessible by the kernel configuration tool, and means for automatically detecting and moving a kernel configuration in association with boot and shutdown routines.

Moving kernel configurations

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for transactional kernel configuration. One embodiment includes a kernel configuration tool, a system file accessible by the kernel configuration tool, and program instructions executable by the kernel configuration tool to immediately and persistently apply kernel configuration changes a manner that ensures a transactional kernel configuration change.

Transactional kernel configuration

A method for testing a service that provides interface functions having no user space interaction and that is runs in a kernel space of an operating system. The method includes loading into the kernel space a dynamically loadable kernel module (DLKM) containing a pseudo device driver having interface commands corresponding to the interface functions of the service to be tested, invoking the interface commands to exercise the interface functions to be tested, and unloading the DLKM module.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

C P Vijay Kumar