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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-docs.txt | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
index 65ecee92db88..5f65f412e7f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ 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.
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ 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.
@@ -104,6 +106,7 @@ 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,
@@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ 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
@@ -129,6 +133,7 @@ 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().
@@ -142,6 +147,7 @@ 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.
@@ -152,6 +158,7 @@ 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,
@@ -169,6 +176,7 @@ 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
@@ -180,6 +188,7 @@ 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
@@ -195,6 +204,7 @@ 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.
@@ -208,6 +218,7 @@ 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.
@@ -220,6 +231,7 @@ 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.
@@ -231,6 +243,7 @@ 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
@@ -242,6 +255,7 @@ 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.
@@ -256,6 +270,7 @@ 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...
@@ -264,6 +279,7 @@ 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
@@ -272,6 +288,8 @@ 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
@@ -286,6 +304,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
: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
@@ -295,6 +314,7 @@ 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
@@ -304,6 +324,7 @@ 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
@@ -315,6 +336,7 @@ 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.
@@ -322,6 +344,7 @@ 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.
@@ -329,6 +352,7 @@ 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.
@@ -336,6 +360,7 @@ 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.
@@ -343,6 +368,7 @@ 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.
@@ -350,6 +376,7 @@ 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.
@@ -357,6 +384,7 @@ 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.
@@ -365,6 +393,7 @@ 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.
@@ -373,6 +402,7 @@ 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.
@@ -389,6 +419,7 @@ 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
@@ -399,6 +430,7 @@ 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
@@ -408,6 +440,7 @@ 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
@@ -417,6 +450,16 @@ 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
@@ -562,15 +605,6 @@ 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.
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