Commit 4f2651e1 authored by Luis de Bethencourt's avatar Luis de Bethencourt Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarLuis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 4817ebb1

Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

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       simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the

       simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the

       hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".

       hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".

       

       

     * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"

     * Title: "Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"

       Author: Michael K. Johnson.

       Author: Michael K. Johnson.

       URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html

       URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html

       Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character

       Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs

       vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to

       block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,

       user memory, memory allocation, timers.

       memory allocation, timers.

       Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing

       Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the

       device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel

       concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal

       Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic.

       structures of Linux.

       

       

     * Title: "The Venus kernel interface"

     * Title: "The Venus kernel interface"

       Author: Peter J. Braam.

       Author: Peter J. Braam.