Commit 249ad664 authored by Richard Sailer's avatar Richard Sailer Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Remove offline or outdated entries 

This removes all dead links to online docs which
are dead according to Jon and Mauro in
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160916182849.2a7101ea

 () vento ! lan

Additionally some references to very old articles refering to
linux 2.2 and 2.0 are deleted.

[mchehab@s-opensource.com: rebased to apply before rename]

Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Sailer <richard@weltraumpflege.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
parent 1b49ecf2

Documentation/kernel-docs.txt

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         the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we

         envisage".



     * Title: **Programming PCI-Devices under Linux**



       :Author: Claus Schroeter.

       :URL: ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/pcip.ps.gz

       :Keywords: PCI, device, busmastering.

       :Description: 6 pages tutorial on PCI programming under Linux.

         Gives the basic concepts on the architecture of the PCI subsystem,

         as long as basic functions and macros to read/write the devices

         and perform busmastering.



     * Title: **Writing Character Device Driver for Linux**



       :Author: R. Baruch and C. Schroeter.

       :URL: ftp://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/pub/linux/LINUX-LAB/whitepapers/drivers.ps.gz

       :Keywords: character device drivers, I/O, signals, DMA, accessing

         ports in user space, kernel environment.

       :Description: 68 pages paper on writing character drivers. A little

         bit old (1.993, 1.994) although still useful.



     * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**



       :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
@@ -270,31 +251,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS 
       :Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,

         bitmaps, invariants...



     * Title: **Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem**



       :Author: Stephen C. Tweedie.

       :URL: ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/journal-design.ps.gz

       :Keywords: ext3, journaling.

       :Description: Excellent 8-pages paper explaining the journaling

         capabilities added to ext2 by the author, showing different

         problems faced and the alternatives chosen.



     * Title: **Kernel API changes from 2.0 to 2.2**



       :Author: Richard Gooch.

       :URL: http://www.safe-mbox.com/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html

       :Keywords: 2.2, changes.

       :Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed

         from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.



     * Title: **Kernel API changes from 2.2 to 2.4**



       :Author: Richard Gooch.

       :URL: http://www.safe-mbox.com/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.4.html

       :Keywords: 2.4, changes.

       :Description: Kernel functions/structures/variables which changed

         from 2.2.x to 2.4.x.



     * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**



       :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
@@ -344,25 +300,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS 
         both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel

         sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.



     * Title: **Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers**



       :Author: Detlef Fliegl.

       :URL: http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/

       :Keywords: USB, universal serial bus.

       :Description: A must-read. From the Preface: "This document should

         give detailed information about the current state of the USB

         subsystem and its API for USB device drivers. The first section

         will deal with the basics of USB devices. You will learn about

         different types of devices and their properties. Going into detail

         you will see how USB devices communicate on the bus. The second

         section gives an overview of the Linux USB subsystem [2] and the

         device driver framework. Then the API and its data structures will

         be explained step by step. The last section of this document

         contains a reference of all API calls and their return codes".

       :Notes: Beware: the main page states: "This document may not be

         published, printed or used in excerpts without explicit permission

         of the author". Fortunately, it may still be read...



     * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**



       :Author: various
@@ -398,21 +335,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS 
         access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it

         is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...



     * Title: **Porting Linux 2.0 Drivers To Linux 2.2: Changes and New Features**



       :Author: Alan Cox.

       :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-05/gear_01.html

       :Keywords: ports, porting.

       :Description: Article from Linux Magazine on porting from 2.0 to

         2.2 kernels.



     * Title: **Porting Device Drivers To Linux 2.2: part II**



       :Author: Alan Cox.

       :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/238

       :Keywords: ports, porting.

       :Description: Second part on porting from 2.0 to 2.2 kernels.



     * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**



       :Author: Paul Mackerras.
@@ -471,22 +393,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS 
         camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.

       :Description: The title says it all.



     * Title: **PCI Management in Linux 2.2**



       :Author: Alan Cox.

       :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/452

       :Keywords: PCI, bus, bus-mastering.

       :Description: The title says it all.



     * Title: **Linux 2.4 Kernel Internals**



       :Author: Tigran Aivazian and Christoph Hellwig.

       :URL: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/lki.html

       :Keywords: Linux, kernel, booting, SMB boot, VFS, page cache.

       :Description: A little book used for a short training course.

         Covers building the kernel image, booting (including SMP bootup),

         process management, VFS and more.



     * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**



       :Author: Glenn Herrin.
@@ -503,19 +409,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS 
         code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet

         dropper example.



     * Title: **Get those boards talking under Linux.**



       :Author: Alex Ivchenko.

       :URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46968.html

       :Keywords: data-acquisition boards, drivers, modules, interrupts,

         memory allocation.

       :Description: Article written for people wishing to make their data

         acquisition boards work on their GNU/Linux machines. Gives a basic

         overview on writing drivers, from the naming of functions to

         interrupt handling.

       :Notes: Two-parts article. Part II is at

       :URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html



     * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**



       :Author: David Hinds.
@@ -526,14 +419,6 @@ ON-LINE DOCS 
         describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with

         Card Services.



     * Title: **The Linux Kernel NFSD Implementation**



       :Author: Neil Brown.

       :URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/nfsd.html

       :Keywords: knfsd, nfsd, NFS, RPC, lockd, mountd, statd.

       :Description: The title says it all.

       :Notes: Covers knfsd's version 1.4.7 (patch against 2.2.7 kernel).



     * Title: **A Linux vm README**



       :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
@@ -702,33 +587,6 @@ MISCELLANEOUS 
         summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions

         produced during the week. Published every Thursday.



     * Name: **Kernel Traffic**



       :URL: http://kt.earth.li/kernel-traffic/index.html

       :Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list, weekly kernel news.

       :Description: Weekly newsletter covering the most relevant

         discussions of the linux-kernel mailing list.



     * Name: **CuTTiNG.eDGe.LiNuX**



       :URL: http://edge.kernelnotes.org

       :Keywords: changelist.

       :Description: Site which provides the changelist for every kernel

         release. What's new, what's better, what's changed. Myrdraal reads

         the patches and describes them. Pointers to the patches are there,

         too.



     * Name: **New linux-kernel Mailing List FAQ**



       :URL: http://www.tux.org/lkml/

       :Keywords: linux-kernel mailing list FAQ.

       :Description: linux-kernel is a mailing list for developers to

         communicate. This FAQ builds on the previous linux-kernel mailing

         list FAQ maintained by Frohwalt Egerer, who no longer maintains

         it. Read it to see how to join the mailing list. Dozens of

         interesting questions regarding the list, Linux, developers (who

         is ...?), terms (what is...?) are answered here too. Just read it.



     * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**



       :Author: Peter J. Braam.
@@ -738,18 +596,6 @@ MISCELLANEOUS 
         Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the

         dcache.



     * Name: **Gary's Encyclopedia - The Linux Kernel**



       :Author: Gary (I suppose...).

       :URL: http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/index.html

       :Keywords: linux, community, everything!

       :Description: Gary's Encyclopedia exists to allow the rapid finding

         of documentation and other information of interest to GNU/Linux

         users. It has about 4000 links to external pages in 150 major

         categories. This link is for kernel-specific links, documents,

         sites...  This list is now hosted by developer.Berlios.de,

         but seems not to have been updated since sometime in 1999.



     * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**



       :Author: The Linux-MM team.
@@ -778,14 +624,11 @@ MISCELLANEOUS 


       :URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html

       :URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html

       :URL: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel

       :URL: http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel

       :URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/

       :URL: http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/

       :Keywords: linux-kernel, archives, search.

       :Description: Some of the linux-kernel mailing list archivers. If

         you have a better/another one, please let me know.



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