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Correct lots of URLs in Documentation/ Also a few minor whitespace cleanups and typo/spello fixes. Sadly there are still a lot of bad URLs remaining. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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| * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers" | ||
| Author: Michael K. Johnson. | ||
| URL: http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/devices.html | ||
| 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. | ||
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| * Title: "Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide" | ||
| Author: Ori Pomerantz. | ||
| URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/mpg.html | ||
| URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html | ||
| Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls, | ||
| interrupt handlers . | ||
| Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules | ||
| programming. Lots of examples. | ||
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| * Title: "Device File System (devfs) Overview" | ||
| Author: Richard Gooch. | ||
| URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.txt | ||
| URL: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html | ||
| Keywords: filesystem, /dev, devfs, dynamic devices, major/minor | ||
| allocation, device management. | ||
| Description: Document describing Richard Gooch's controversial | ||
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| * Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO" | ||
| Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. | ||
| URL: | ||
| http://www.lisoleg.net/doc/Kernel-Hacking-HOWTO/kernel-hacking-HOW | ||
| TO.html | ||
| Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking/ | ||
| (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) | ||
| Keywords: HOWTO, kernel contexts, deadlock, locking, modules, | ||
| symbols, return conventions. | ||
| Description: From the Introduction: "Please understand that I | ||
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| originally written for the 2.3 kernels, but nearly all of it | ||
| applies to 2.2 too; 2.0 is slightly different". | ||
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| * Title: "ALSA 0.5.0 Developer documentation" | ||
| Author: Stephan 'Jumpy' Bartels . | ||
| URL: http://www.math.TU-Berlin.de/~sbartels/alsa/ | ||
| * Title: "Writing an ALSA Driver" | ||
| Author: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]> | ||
| URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html | ||
| Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware. | ||
| Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers, | ||
| both at kernel and user-level sides. Work in progress. ALSA is | ||
| supposed to be Linux's next generation sound architecture. | ||
| both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel | ||
| sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version. | ||
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| * Title: "Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers" | ||
| Author: Detlef Fliegl. | ||
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| filesystems, IPC and Networking Code. | ||
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| * Title: "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" | ||
| Author: John Levon. | ||
| URL: http://www.movement.uklinux.net/glossary.html | ||
| Author: various | ||
| URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/ | ||
| 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 | ||
| during discussion of the Linux kernel". | ||
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| * Title: "Linux Kernel Locking HOWTO" | ||
| Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty. | ||
| URL: | ||
| http://netfilter.kernelnotes.org/unreliable-guides/kernel-locking- | ||
| HOWTO.html | ||
| Location: in kernel tree, Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking/ | ||
| (must be built as "make {htmldocs | psdocs | pdfdocs}) | ||
| Keywords: locks, locking, spinlock, semaphore, atomic, race | ||
| condition, bottom halves, tasklets, softirqs. | ||
| Description: The title says it all: document describing the | ||
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| * Title: "Get those boards talking under Linux." | ||
| Author: Alex Ivchenko. | ||
| URL: http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/06222000/13df2.htm | ||
| 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 | ||
| http://www.ednmag.com/ednmag/reg/2000/07062000/14df.htm | ||
| URL: http://www.edn.com/article/CA46998.html | ||
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| * Title: "Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide" | ||
| Author: David Hinds. | ||
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| definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system | ||
| administrators." | ||
| Author: pragmatic/THC. | ||
| URL: http://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/LKM_HACKING.html | ||
| URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html | ||
| 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 | ||
| files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys, | ||
| write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to | ||
| avoid all those abuses. | ||
| Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x | ||
| kernels. Also available in txt format at | ||
| http://www.blacknemesis.org/hacking/txt/cllkm.txt | ||
| kernels. | ||
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| BOOKS: (Not on-line) | ||
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| ISBN: 0-59600-008-1 | ||
| Notes: Further information in | ||
| http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ | ||
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| * Title: "Linux Device Drivers, 3nd Edition" | ||
| Authors: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman | ||
| Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates. | ||
| Date: 2005. | ||
| Pages: 636. | ||
| ISBN: 0-596-00590-3 | ||
| Notes: Further information in | ||
| http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/ | ||
| PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ | ||
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| * Title: "Linux Kernel Internals" | ||
| Author: Michael Beck. | ||
| Publisher: Addison-Wesley. | ||
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| documents, FAQs... | ||
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| * Name: "linux-kernel mailing list archives and search engines" | ||
| URL: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html | ||
| URL: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html | ||
| URL: http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/ | ||
| URL: http://www.geocrawler.com | ||
| 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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| Document last updated on Thu Jun 28 15:09:39 CEST 2001 | ||
| Document last updated on Sat 2005-NOV-19 | ||
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| home page (URL below) for a perpetually out-of-date list. | ||
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| ===================================================================== | ||
| MCA Linux Home Page: http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ | ||
| MCA Linux Home Page: http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/ | ||
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| Christophe Beauregard | ||
| [email protected] | ||
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| programs can be found on http://irda.sourceforge.net/ | ||
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| For more information about how to use the IrDA protocol stack, see the | ||
| Linux Infared HOWTO (http://www.tuxmobil.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO.html) | ||
| by Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org> | ||
| Linux Infrared HOWTO by Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org>: | ||
| <http://www.tuxmobil.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO.html> | ||
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| There is an active mailing list for discussing Linux-IrDA matters called | ||
| [email protected] | ||
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| Don is no longer the prime maintainer of this version of the driver. | ||
| Please report problems to one or more of: | ||
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| Andrew Morton <[email protected]> | ||
| Andrew Morton <[email protected]> | ||
| Netdev mailing list <[email protected]> | ||
| Linux kernel mailing list <[email protected]> | ||
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| Additional documentation is available at Don Becker's Linux Drivers site: | ||
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| http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html | ||
| http://www.scyld.com/vortex.html | ||
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| http://www.scyld.com/network | ||
| http://www.scyld.com/network.html | ||
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| http://www.scyld.com/diag/#pci-diags | ||
| http://www.scyld.com/ethercard_diag.html | ||
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| Donald's mii-diag program may be used for inspecting and manipulating | ||
| the NIC's Media Independent Interface subsystem: | ||
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| http://www.scyld.com/diag/#mii-diag | ||
| http://www.scyld.com/ethercard_diag.html#mii-diag | ||
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| http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html | ||
| http://www.scyld.com/wakeonlan.html | ||
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| 3Com's documentation for many NICs, including the ones supported by | ||
| this driver is available at | ||
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| Driver updates and a detailed changelog for the modifications which | ||
| were made for the 2.3/2,4 series kernel is available at | ||
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| http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/#3c59x-2.3 | ||
| http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/#3c59x-bc | ||
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| 3) Download you card's diagnostic tool from Donald | ||
| Backer's website http://www.scyld.com/diag. Download | ||
| mii-diag.c as well. Build these. | ||
| Becker's website <http://www.scyld.com/ethercard_diag.html>. | ||
| Download mii-diag.c as well. Build these. | ||
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| a) Run 'vortex-diag -aaee' and 'mii-diag -v' when the card is | ||
| working correctly. Save the output. | ||
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| b) Run the above commands when the card is malfunctioning. Send | ||
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| Finally, please be patient and be prepared to do some work. You may end up working on | ||
| this problem for a week or more as the maintainer asks more questions, asks for more | ||
| tests, asks for patches to be applied, etc. At the end of it all, the problem may even | ||
| remain unresolved. | ||
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| Finally, please be patient and be prepared to do some work. You may | ||
| end up working on this problem for a week or more as the maintainer | ||
| asks more questions, asks for more tests, asks for patches to be | ||
| applied, etc. At the end of it all, the problem may even remain | ||
| unresolved. | ||
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