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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index cb89fb3b61ef..99d24f2943ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers" Author: Michael K. Johnson. - URL: http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/devices.html + URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to user memory, memory allocation, timers. @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ * Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide" Author: Ori Pomerantz. - URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html + URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, interrupt handlers . Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ * Title: "Device File System (devfs) Overview" Author: Richard Gooch. - URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt + URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor allocation, device management. Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial @@ -316,9 +316,8 @@ * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO" Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. - URL: - http://www.lisoleg.net/doc/Kernel-Hacking-HOWTO/kernel-hacking-HOW - TO.html + Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/ + (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, symbols, return conventions. Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I @@ -332,13 +331,13 @@ originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". - * Title: "ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation" - Author: Stephan 'Jumpy' Bartels . - URL: http://www.math.TU-Berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/ + * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver" + Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> + URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, - both at kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is - supposed to be Linux's next generation sound architecture. + both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel + sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. * Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers" Author: Detlef Fliegl. @@ -369,8 +368,8 @@ filesystems, IPC and Networking Code. * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" - Author: John Levon. - URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html + Author: various + URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel. Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear @@ -378,9 +377,8 @@ * Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO" Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. - URL: - http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking- - HOWTO.html + Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/ + (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. Description: The title says it all: document describing the @@ -490,7 +488,7 @@ * Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux." Author: Alex Ivchenko. - URL: http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/06222000/13df2.htm + URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts, memory allocation. Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data @@ -498,7 +496,7 @@ overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to interrupt handling. Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at - http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/07062000/14df.htm + URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html * Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide" Author: David Hinds. @@ -529,7 +527,7 @@ definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators." Author: pragmatic/THC. - URL: http://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/LKM_HACKING.html + URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table. Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in order to intercept and modify syscalls, make @@ -537,8 +535,7 @@ write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to avoid all those abuses. Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x - kernels. Also available in txt format at - http://www.blacknemesis.org/hacking/txt/cllkm.txt + kernels. BOOKS: (Not on-line) @@ -557,7 +554,17 @@ ISBN: 0-59600-008-1 Notes: Further information in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ - + + * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3nd Edition" + Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman + Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. + Date: 2005. + Pages: 636. + ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 + Notes: Further information in + http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ + PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ + * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals" Author: Michael Beck. Publisher: Addison-Wesley. @@ -766,12 +773,15 @@ documents, FAQs... * Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines" + URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html - URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/ - URL: http://www.geocrawler.com + URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel + URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel + URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/ + URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/ Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search. Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If you have a better/another one, please let me know. _________________________________________________________________ - Document last updated on Thu Jun 28 15:09:39 CEST 2001 + Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19 |