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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index 955f5b775e69..7f02d3b17ab4 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -229,25 +229,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we envisage". - * Title: **Programming PCI-Devices under Linux** - - :Author: Claus Schroeter. - :URL: ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz - :Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering. - :Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux. - Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem, - as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices - and perform busmastering. - - * Title: **Writing Character Device Driver for Linux** - - :Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter. - :URL: ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz - :Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing - ports in user space, kernel environment. - :Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little - bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful. - * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. @@ -270,31 +251,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, bitmaps, invariants... - * Title: **Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem** - - :Author: Stephen C. Tweedie. - :URL: ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz - :Keywords: ext3, journaling. - :Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling - capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different - problems faced and the alternatives chosen. - - * Title: **Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2** - - :Author: Richard Gooch. - :URL: http://www.safe-mbox.com/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html - :Keywords: 2.2, changes. - :Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed - from 2.0.x to 2.2.x. - - * Title: **Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4** - - :Author: Richard Gooch. - :URL: http://www.safe-mbox.com/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html - :Keywords: 2.4, changes. - :Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed - from 2.2.x to 2.4.x. - * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** :Author: Ori Pomerantz. @@ -344,25 +300,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS 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. - :URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/ - :Keywords: USB, universal serial bus. - :Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should - give detailed information about the current state of the USB - subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section - will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about - different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail - you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second - section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the - device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will - be explained step by step. The last section of this document - contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes". - :Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be - published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission - of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read... - * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary** :Author: various @@ -398,21 +335,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... - * Title: **Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New Features** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html - :Keywords: ports, porting. - :Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to - 2.2 kernels. - - * Title: **Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/238 - :Keywords: ports, porting. - :Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels. - * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh** :Author: Paul Mackerras. @@ -471,22 +393,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. :Description: The title says it all. - * Title: **PCI Management in Linux 2.2** - - :Author: Alan Cox. - :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/452 - :Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering. - :Description: The title says it all. - - * Title: **Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals** - - :Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig. - :URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html - :Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache. - :Description: A little book used for a short training course. - Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup), - process management, VFS and more. - * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.** :Author: Glenn Herrin. @@ -503,19 +409,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet dropper example. - * Title: **Get those boards talking under Linux.** - - :Author: Alex Ivchenko. - :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 - acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic - overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to - interrupt handling. - :Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at - :URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html - * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide** :Author: David Hinds. @@ -526,14 +419,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with Card Services. - * Title: **The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation** - - :Author: Neil Brown. - :URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html - :Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd. - :Description: The title says it all. - :Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel). - * Title: **A Linux vm README** :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. @@ -702,33 +587,6 @@ MISCELLANEOUS summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions produced during the week. Published every Thursday. - * Name: **Kernel Traffic** - - :URL: http://kt.earth.li/kernel-traffic/index.html - :Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news. - :Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant - discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list. - - * Name: **CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX** - - :URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org - :Keywords: changelist. - :Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel - release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads - the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there, - too. - - * Name: **New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ** - - :URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - :Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ. - :Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to - communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing - list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains - it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of - interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who - is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it. - * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** :Author: Peter J. Braam. @@ -738,18 +596,6 @@ MISCELLANEOUS Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the dcache. - * Name: **Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel** - - :Author: Gary (I suppose...). - :URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html - :Keywords: linux, community, everything! - :Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding - of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux - users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major - categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents, - sites... This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de, - but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999. - * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** :Author: The Linux-MM team. @@ -778,14 +624,11 @@ MISCELLANEOUS :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html - :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 Sat 2005-NOV-19 +Document last updated on Mon 2016-Sep-19 |