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Commit 57b2e1c8 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

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@@ -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.