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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-09-20 08:36:42 -0300 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2016-09-20 18:54:11 -0600 |
commit | 57b2e1c831e760d9fb1a32392e452ed6d7b83938 (patch) | |
tree | fd52b8540a473422c3f2296f40901d14ab803065 /Documentation/kernel-docs.txt | |
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Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add dates for online docs
It is a way better to have a timestamp to help identifying
when something is too old.
So, retrieve the dates marked on the existing documents.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-docs.txt')
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1 files changed, 43 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt index 504d6e7..d8d6325 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ + :Date: 2005 :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. @@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Richard Gooch. :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt + :Date: 2007 :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files, dentries, dcache. :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System. @@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza. :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391 + :Date: 1997 :Keywords: RAID, MD driver. :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1, @@ -117,6 +120,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alessandro Rubini. :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219 + :Date: 1996 :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules, allocating resources. :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its @@ -131,6 +135,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alessandro Rubini. :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220 + :Date: 1996 :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module, autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations, open(), close(). @@ -144,6 +149,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Andi Kleen :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf + :Date: 2008 :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches there are and how likley they get merged. @@ -154,6 +160,7 @@ On-line docs * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel** :Author: Richard Sailer :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper + :Date: 2016 :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for understanding linux kernel internals, @@ -171,6 +178,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini. :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221 + :Date: 1996 :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non blocking mode, interrupt handler. :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its @@ -182,6 +190,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz. :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222 + :Date: 1996 :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues. :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about @@ -197,6 +206,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz. :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287 + :Date: 1996 :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management, demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap, virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI. @@ -210,6 +220,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 + :Date: 1996 :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, configuration, multicast. @@ -222,6 +233,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Michael K. Johnson. :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html + :Date: 1997 :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, memory allocation, timers. @@ -233,6 +245,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Peter J. Braam. :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html + :Date: 1998 :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. :Description: "This document describes the communication between Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation @@ -244,6 +257,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html + :Date: 1998 :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, ext2fs tools, e2fsck. @@ -258,6 +272,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ + :Date: 1994 :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, bitmaps, invariants... @@ -266,6 +281,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Ori Pomerantz. :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html + :Date: 2001 :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, interrupt handlers . :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules @@ -274,6 +290,8 @@ On-line docs * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux** :Author: Richard Gooch. + :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html + :Date: 1999 :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness event queues. :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about @@ -288,6 +306,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html + :Date: 2005 :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel @@ -297,6 +316,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: various :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ + :Date: rolling version :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 @@ -306,6 +326,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Rick Lindsley. :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock + :Date: 2001 :Keywords: spinlock. :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive @@ -317,6 +338,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Paul Mackerras. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261 + :Date: 1999 :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility. :Description: The title says it all. @@ -324,6 +346,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284 + :Date: 1999 :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver. :Description: The title says it all. @@ -331,6 +354,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307 + :Date: 1999 :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced. :Description: The title says it all. @@ -338,6 +362,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330 + :Date: 1999 :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm. :Description: The title says it all. @@ -345,6 +370,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356 + :Date: 1999 :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O. :Description: The title still says it all. @@ -352,6 +378,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381 + :Date: 1999 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. :Description: The title says it all. @@ -359,6 +386,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406 + :Date: 2000 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, camera driver. :Description: The title says it all. @@ -367,6 +395,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Alan Cox. :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429 + :Date: 2000 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices, camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility. :Description: The title says it all. @@ -375,6 +404,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Glenn Herrin. :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin + :Date: 2000 :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection, socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets, modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags. @@ -391,6 +421,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: David Hinds. :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html + :Date: 2003 :Keywords: PCMCIA. :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also @@ -401,6 +432,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html + :Date: 2001 :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page cache, swap cache, kswapd. :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions @@ -410,6 +442,7 @@ On-line docs :Author: pragmatic/THC. :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html + :Date: 1999 :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 @@ -419,6 +452,16 @@ On-line docs :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x kernels. + * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** + + :Author: Peter J. Braam. + :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ + :Date: 1998 + :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. + :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the + Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the + dcache. + .. Please keep the published books in reverse publication date Published books @@ -564,15 +607,6 @@ Miscellaneous summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions produced during the week. Published every Thursday. - * Name: **Linux Virtual File System** - - :Author: Peter J. Braam. - :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/ - :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache. - :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the - Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the - dcache. - * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM** :Author: The Linux-MM team. |