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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst index 2e7017bef4b8..c2121c1e55d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ The -mm patches are experimental patches released by Andrew Morton. In the past, -mm tree were used to also test subsystem patches, but this function is now done via the -`linux-next <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html>` +`linux-next` (https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html) tree. The Subsystem maintainers push their patches first to linux-next, and, during the merge window, sends them directly to Linus. diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst index 22d9ace5df2a..da9527502ef0 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst @@ -126,15 +126,17 @@ On-line docs describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with Card Services. - * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** + * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** - :Author: Ori Pomerantz. - :URL: https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html - :Date: 2001 + :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram, + Jim Huang. + :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/ + :Date: 2021 :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, interrupt handlers . - :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules - programming. Lots of examples. + :Description: A very nice GPL book on the topic of modules + programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being + actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg. * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage** diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst index 8f8f1fee92b8..29e7d7b1cd44 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst @@ -944,12 +944,11 @@ have on your keyring:: uid [ unknown] Linus Torvalds <torvalds@kernel.org> sub rsa2048 2011-09-20 [E] -Next, open the `PGP pathfinder`_. In the "From" field, paste the key -fingerprint of Linus Torvalds from the output above. In the "To" field, -paste the key-id you found via ``gpg --search`` of the unknown key, and -check the results: - -- `Finding paths to Linus`_ +Next, find a trust path from Linus Torvalds to the key-id you found via ``gpg +--search`` of the unknown key. For this, you can use several tools including +https://github.com/mricon/wotmate, +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/kernel/pgpkeys.git/tree/graphs, and +https://the.earth.li/~noodles/pathfind.html. If you get a few decent trust paths, then it's a pretty good indication that it is a valid key. You can add it to your keyring from the @@ -962,6 +961,3 @@ administrators of the PGP Pathfinder service to not be malicious (in fact, this goes against :ref:`devs_not_infra`). However, if you do not carefully maintain your own web of trust, then it is a marked improvement over blindly trusting keyservers. - -.. _`PGP pathfinder`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ -.. _`Finding paths to Linus`: https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/paths/79BE3E4300411886/to/C94035C21B4F2AEB.html |