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Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: reorder based on timestamp
Reorder the on-line documents based on their timestamp or copyright notes. More updated documents come first. While here, add the number of pages for POSIX4 document. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ Document.
32 32
33Enjoy! 33Enjoy!
34 34
35.. note::
36
37 The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
38 published date, from the newest to the oldest.
39
35Docs at the Linux Kernel tree 40Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
36----------------------------- 41-----------------------------
37 42
@@ -82,82 +87,18 @@ The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
82On-line docs 87On-line docs
83------------ 88------------
84 89
85 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition** 90 * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
86
87 :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
88 :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
89 :Date: 2005
90 :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
91 programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
92 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
93 :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`.
94
95 * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
96
97 :Author: Richard Gooch.
98 :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
99 :Date: 2007
100 :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
101 dentries, dcache.
102 :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
103 What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
104 mounting a file system and description of important data
105 structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
106
107 * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
108
109 :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
110 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
111 :Date: 1997
112 :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
113 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
114 :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
115 RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
116 Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
117 secondary-storage capability using software*.
118
119 * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
120
121 :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
122 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
123 :Date: 1996
124 :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
125 allocating resources.
126 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
127 :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
128 co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
129 a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
130 loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
131 topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
132 installment*.
133
134 * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
135
136 :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
137 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
138 :Date: 1996
139 :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
140 autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
141 open(), close().
142 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
143 :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
144 the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
145 device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
146 cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
147
148 * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
149 91
150 :Author: Andi Kleen 92 :Author: various
151 :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf 93 :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
152 :Date: 2008 94 :Date: rolling version
153 :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies 95 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
154 :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches 96 :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
155 there are and how likley they get merged. 97 a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
156 :Abstract: 98 during discussion of the Linux kernel".
157 [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
158 submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
159 99
160 * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel** 100 * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
101
161 :Author: Richard Sailer 102 :Author: Richard Sailer
162 :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper 103 :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
163 :Date: 2016 104 :Date: 2016
@@ -174,108 +115,60 @@ On-line docs
174 Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual 115 Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
175 exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.* 116 exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
176 117
177 * Title: **The Devil's in the Details** 118 * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
178
179 :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
180 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
181 :Date: 1996
182 :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
183 blocking mode, interrupt handler.
184 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
185 :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
186 device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
187 ioctl-calls*.
188
189 * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
190
191 :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
192 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
193 :Date: 1996
194 :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
195 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
196 :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
197 writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
198 month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
199 Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
200 constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
201 writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
202 different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
203 DMA*.
204
205 * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
206
207 :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
208 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
209 :Date: 1996
210 :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
211 demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
212 virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
213 :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
214 series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
215 five articles about character device drivers. In this final
216 section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
217 an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
218
219 * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
220 119
221 :Author: Alan Cox. 120 :Author: Andi Kleen
222 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312 121 :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
223 :Date: 1996 122 :Date: 2008
224 :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer 123 :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
225 variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive, 124 :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
226 configuration, multicast. 125 there are and how likley they get merged.
227 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner. 126 :Abstract:
228 :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally 127 [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
229 simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the 128 submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
230 hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
231 129
232 * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide** 130 * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
233 131
234 :Author: Michael K. Johnson. 132 :Author: Richard Gooch.
235 :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html 133 :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
236 :Date: 1997 134 :Date: 2007
237 :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs 135 :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
238 block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, 136 dentries, dcache.
239 memory allocation, timers. 137 :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
240 :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the 138 What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
241 concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal 139 mounting a file system and description of important data
242 structures of Linux. 140 structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
243 141
244 * Title: **The Venus kernel interface** 142 * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
245 143
246 :Author: Peter J. Braam. 144 :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
247 :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html 145 :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
248 :Date: 1998 146 :Date: 2005
249 :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager. 147 :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
250 :Description: "This document describes the communication between 148 programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
251 Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation 149 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
252 of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe 150 :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere <ldd3_published>`.
253 the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
254 envisage".
255 151
256 * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem** 152 * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
257 153
258 :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie. 154 :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
259 :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html 155 :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
260 :Date: 1998 156 :Date: 2005
261 :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices, 157 :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
262 VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library, 158 :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
263 ext2fs tools, e2fsck. 159 both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
264 :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers. 160 sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
265 Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
266 design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
267 e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
268 :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
269 First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
270 161
271 * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure** 162 * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
272 163
273 :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau. 164 :Author: David Hinds.
274 :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/ 165 :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
275 :Date: 1994 166 :Date: 2003
276 :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs. 167 :Keywords: PCMCIA.
277 :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes, 168 :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
278 bitmaps, invariants... 169 drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
170 describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
171 Card Services.
279 172
280 * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide** 173 * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
281 174
@@ -287,41 +180,6 @@ On-line docs
287 :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules 180 :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
288 programming. Lots of examples. 181 programming. Lots of examples.
289 182
290 * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
291
292 :Author: Richard Gooch.
293 :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
294 :Date: 1999
295 :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
296 event queues.
297 :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
298 how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
299 open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
300 application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
301 (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
302 want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
303 inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
304
305 * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
306
307 :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
308 :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
309 :Date: 2005
310 :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
311 :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
312 both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
313 sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
314
315 * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
316
317 :Author: various
318 :URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
319 :Date: rolling version
320 :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
321 :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
322 a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
323 during discussion of the Linux kernel".
324
325 * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage** 183 * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
326 184
327 :Author: Rick Lindsley. 185 :Author: Rick Lindsley.
@@ -334,6 +192,51 @@ On-line docs
334 access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it 192 access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
335 is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held... 193 is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
336 194
195 * Title: **A Linux vm README**
196
197 :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
198 :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
199 :Date: 2001
200 :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
201 cache, swap cache, kswapd.
202 :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
203 relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
204
205 * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
206
207 :Author: Alan Cox.
208 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
209 :Date: 2000
210 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
211 camera driver.
212 :Description: The title says it all.
213
214 * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
215
216 :Author: Alan Cox.
217 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
218 :Date: 2000
219 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
220 camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
221 :Description: The title says it all.
222
223 * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
224
225 :Author: Glenn Herrin.
226 :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
227 :Date: 2000
228 :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
229 socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
230 modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
231 :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
232 explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
233 configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
234 the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
235 packets follow from the time they are received at the network
236 device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
237 code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
238 dropper example.
239
337 * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh** 240 * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
338 241
339 :Author: Paul Mackerras. 242 :Author: Paul Mackerras.
@@ -382,61 +285,20 @@ On-line docs
382 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices. 285 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
383 :Description: The title says it all. 286 :Description: The title says it all.
384 287
385 * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device** 288 * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
386
387 :Author: Alan Cox.
388 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
389 :Date: 2000
390 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
391 camera driver.
392 :Description: The title says it all.
393
394 * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
395
396 :Author: Alan Cox.
397 :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
398 :Date: 2000
399 :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
400 camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
401 :Description: The title says it all.
402
403 * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
404
405 :Author: Glenn Herrin.
406 :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
407 :Date: 2000
408 :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
409 socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
410 modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
411 :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
412 explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
413 configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
414 the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
415 packets follow from the time they are received at the network
416 device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
417 code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
418 dropper example.
419
420 * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
421
422 :Author: David Hinds.
423 :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
424 :Date: 2003
425 :Keywords: PCMCIA.
426 :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
427 drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
428 describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
429 Card Services.
430
431 * Title: **A Linux vm README**
432 289
433 :Author: Kanoj Sarcar. 290 :Author: Richard Gooch.
434 :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html 291 :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
435 :Date: 2001 292 :Date: 1999
436 :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page 293 :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
437 cache, swap cache, kswapd. 294 event queues.
438 :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions 295 :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
439 relating the Linux virtual memory implementation. 296 how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
297 open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
298 application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
299 (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
300 want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
301 inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
440 302
441 * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.** 303 * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
442 304
@@ -462,7 +324,149 @@ On-line docs
462 Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the 324 Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
463 dcache. 325 dcache.
464 326
465.. Please keep the published books in reverse publication date 327 * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
328
329 :Author: Peter J. Braam.
330 :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
331 :Date: 1998
332 :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
333 :Description: "This document describes the communication between
334 Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
335 of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
336 the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
337 envisage".
338
339 * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
340
341 :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
342 :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
343 :Date: 1998
344 :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
345 VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
346 ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
347 :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
348 Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
349 design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
350 e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
351 :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
352 First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
353
354 * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
355
356 :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
357 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
358 :Date: 1997
359 :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
360 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
361 :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
362 RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
363 Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
364 secondary-storage capability using software*.
365
366 * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
367
368 :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
369 :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
370 :Date: 1997
371 :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
372 block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
373 memory allocation, timers.
374 :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
375 concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal
376 structures of Linux.
377
378 * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
379
380 :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
381 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
382 :Date: 1996
383 :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
384 allocating resources.
385 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
386 :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
387 co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
388 a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
389 loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
390 topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
391 installment*.
392
393 * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
394
395 :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
396 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
397 :Date: 1996
398 :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
399 autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
400 open(), close().
401 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
402 :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
403 the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
404 device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
405 cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
406
407 * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
408
409 :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
410 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
411 :Date: 1996
412 :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
413 blocking mode, interrupt handler.
414 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
415 :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
416 device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
417 ioctl-calls*.
418
419 * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
420
421 :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
422 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
423 :Date: 1996
424 :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
425 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
426 :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
427 writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
428 month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
429 Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
430 constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
431 writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
432 different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
433 DMA*.
434
435 * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
436
437 :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
438 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
439 :Date: 1996
440 :Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
441 demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
442 virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
443 :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
444 series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
445 five articles about character device drivers. In this final
446 section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
447 an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
448
449 * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
450
451 :Author: Alan Cox.
452 :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
453 :Date: 1996
454 :Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
455 variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
456 configuration, multicast.
457 :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
458 :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
459 simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
460 hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
461
462 * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
463
464 :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
465 :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
466 :Date: 1994
467 :Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
468 :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
469 bitmaps, invariants...
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467Published books 471Published books
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559 :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister 563 :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
560 :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc 564 :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
561 :Date: 1995 565 :Date: 1995
562 :Pages: ??? 566 :Pages: 552
563 :ISBN: I-56592-074-0 567 :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
564 :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be 568 :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
565 POSIX. Good reference. 569 POSIX. Good reference.
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648 http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html 652 http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html