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| author | Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com> | 2016-03-31 12:10:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-04-15 15:37:25 -0600 |
| commit | 4f2651e1d838c4db656170bddfcabdf67a8d7f9b (patch) | |
| tree | bf0fd14f54de3544c32b529c6b85c9ba96114d69 /Documentation/kernel-docs.txt | |
| parent | 4817ebb144ffa5a1a2bc84b89ed9655dbe6c4502 (diff) | |
Documentation: update Michael K. Johnson's work
The URL for "Writing Linux Device Drivers" hasn't been available in some
time. Updating the entry to Michael K. Johnson's "Linux Kernel Hackers'
Guide"
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-docs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-docs.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index 3aecbac1cb01..1dafc52167b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -194,15 +194,15 @@ simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the hardware) involves managing network packets in memory". - * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers" + * Title: "Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide" Author: Michael K. Johnson. - 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. - Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing - device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel - Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic. + URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html + Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs + block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, + memory allocation, timers. + Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the + concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal + structures of Linux. * Title: "The Venus kernel interface" Author: Peter J. Braam. |