From: Luis de Bethencourt Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:10:30 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documentation: update Michael K. Johnson's work X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f2651e1d838c4db656170bddfcabdf67a8d7f9b;p=linux-beck.git 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- 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.