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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

       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.