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.. _kernel_docs:
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Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel
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=============================================================================================
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          Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche <jmseyas@dit.upm.es>
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The need for a document like this one became apparent in the
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linux-kernel mailing list as the same questions, asking for pointers
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to information, appeared again and again.
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Fortunately, as more and more people get to GNU/Linux, more and more
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get interested in the Kernel. But reading the sources is not always
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enough. It is easy to understand the code, but miss the concepts, the
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philosophy and design decisions behind this code.
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Unfortunately, not many documents are available for beginners to
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start. And, even if they exist, there was no "well-known" place which
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kept track of them. These lines try to cover this lack. All documents
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available on line known by the author are listed, while some reference
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books are also mentioned.
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PLEASE, if you know any paper not listed here or write a new document,
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send me an e-mail, and I'll include a reference to it here. Any
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corrections, ideas or comments are also welcomed.
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The papers that follow are listed in no particular order. All are
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cataloged with the following fields: the document's "Title", the
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"Author"/s, the "URL" where they can be found, some "Keywords" helpful
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when searching for specific topics, and a brief "Description" of the
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Document.
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Enjoy!
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.. note::
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   The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
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   published date, from the newest to the oldest.
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Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
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-----------------------------
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The Sphinx books should be built with ``make {htmldocs | pdfdocs | epubdocs}``.
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    * Name: **linux/Documentation**
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      :Author: Many.
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      :Location: Documentation/
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      :Keywords: text files, Sphinx.
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      :Description: Documentation that comes with the kernel sources,
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        inside the Documentation directory. Some pages from this document
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        (including this document itself) have been moved there, and might
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        be more up to date than the web version.
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On-line docs
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------------
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    * Title: **Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary**
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      :Author: various
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      :URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelGlossary
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      :Date: rolling version
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      :Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
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      :Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
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        a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
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        during discussion of the Linux kernel".
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    * Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
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      :Author: Richard Sailer
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      :URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
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      :Date: 2016
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      :Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
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      :Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
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        understanding linux kernel internals,
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        illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
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      :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
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        as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
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        Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
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        source code more determined and with context.
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        In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
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        and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
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        Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
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        exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
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    * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
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      :Author: Andi Kleen
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      :URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
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      :Date: 2008
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      :Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
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      :Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
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        there are and how likley they get merged.
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      :Abstract:
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        [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
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        submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
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    * Title: **Overview of the Virtual File System**
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      :Author: Richard Gooch.
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      :URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
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      :Date: 2007
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      :Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
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        dentries, dcache.
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      :Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
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        What is it, how it works, operations taken when opening a file or
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        mounting a file system and description of important data
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        structures explaining the purpose of each of their entries.
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    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
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      :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
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      :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
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      :Date: 2005
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      :Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
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        programming API and kernel hacking in general.  Available under the
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        Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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      :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere  <ldd3_published>`.
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    * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
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      :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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      :URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
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      :Date: 2005
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      :Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
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      :Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
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        both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
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        sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
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    * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
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      :Author: David Hinds.
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      :URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
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      :Date: 2003
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      :Keywords: PCMCIA.
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      :Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
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        drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
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        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
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        Card Services.
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    * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
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      :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
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      :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
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      :Date: 2001
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      :Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
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        interrupt handlers .
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      :Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
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        programming. Lots of examples.
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    * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
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      :Author: Rick Lindsley.
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      :URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
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      :Date: 2001
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      :Keywords: spinlock.
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      :Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
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        usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
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        list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
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        access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
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        is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
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    * Title: **A Linux vm README**
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      :Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
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      :URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
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      :Date: 2001
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      :Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
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        cache, swap cache, kswapd.
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      :Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
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        relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
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    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
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      :Author: Alan Cox.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
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      :Date: 2000
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      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
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        camera driver.
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      :Description: The title says it all.
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    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
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      :Author: Alan Cox.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
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      :Date: 2000
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      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
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        camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
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      :Description: The title says it all.
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    * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
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      :Author: Glenn Herrin.
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      :URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
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      :Date: 2000
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      :Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
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        socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
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        modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
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      :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
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        explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
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        configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
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        the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
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        packets follow from the time they are received at the network
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        device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
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        code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
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        dropper example.
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    * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
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      :Author: Paul Mackerras.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
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      :Description: The title says it all.
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    * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
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      :Author: Alan Cox.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
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      :Description: The title says it all.
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    * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
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      :Author: Alan Cox.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
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      :Description: The title says it all.
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    * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
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      :Author: Alan Cox.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
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      :Description: The title says it all.
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    * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
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      :Author: Alan Cox.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
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      :Description: The title still says it all.
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    * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
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      :Author: Alan Cox.
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      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
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      :Description: The title says it all.
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    * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
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      :Author: Richard Gooch.
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      :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
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        event queues.
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      :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
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        how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
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        open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
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        application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
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        (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
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        want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
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        inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
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    * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
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      :Author: pragmatic/THC.
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      :URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
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      :Date: 1999
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      :Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
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      :Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
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        order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
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        files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
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        write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
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        avoid all those abuses.
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      :Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
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        kernels.
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    * Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
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      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
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      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
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      :Date: 1998
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      :Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
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      :Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
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        Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
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        dcache.
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    * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
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      :Author: Peter J. Braam.
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      :URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
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      :Date: 1998
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      :Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
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      :Description: "This document describes the communication between
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        Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
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        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
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        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
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        envisage".
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    * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
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      :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
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      :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
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      :Date: 1998
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      :Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
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        VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
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        ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
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      :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
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        Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
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        design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
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        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
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      :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
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        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
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    * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
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      :Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
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      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
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      :Date: 1997
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      :Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
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      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
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      :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
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        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
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        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
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        secondary-storage capability using software*.
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    * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
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      :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
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      :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
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      :Date: 1997
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      :Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
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        block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
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        memory allocation, timers.
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      :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
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        concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal
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        structures of Linux.
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    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
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      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
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      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
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      :Date: 1996
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      :Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
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        allocating resources.
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      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
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      :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
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        co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
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        a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
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        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
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        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
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        installment*.
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    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
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      :Author: Alessandro Rubini.
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      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
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      :Date: 1996
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      :Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
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        autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
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        open(), close().
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      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
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      :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
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        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
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        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
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        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
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    * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
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      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
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      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
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      :Date: 1996
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      :Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
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        blocking mode, interrupt handler.
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      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
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      :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
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        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
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        ioctl-calls*.
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    * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
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      :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
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      :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
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      :Date: 1996
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      :Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
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      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
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      :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
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        writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
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        month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
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        Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
 | 
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        constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
 | 
						|
        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
 | 
						|
        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
 | 
						|
        DMA*.
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 | 
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    * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
 | 
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 | 
						|
      :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.
 | 
						|
      :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
 | 
						|
        series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
 | 
						|
        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
 | 
						|
        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
 | 
						|
        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :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.
 | 
						|
      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
 | 
						|
      :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
 | 
						|
        simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
 | 
						|
        hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :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...
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Published books
 | 
						|
---------------
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
 | 
						|
      :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 688
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
 | 
						|
      :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
 | 
						|
         much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Rami Rosen
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Apress
 | 
						|
      :Date: December 22, 2013
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 648
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 978-1430261964
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Christopher Hallinan
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Pearson
 | 
						|
      :Date: November, 2010
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 656
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 978-0137017836
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Robert Love
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
 | 
						|
      :Date: July, 2010
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 440
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 978-0672329463
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
 | 
						|
      :Published: Prentice Hall
 | 
						|
      :Date: April, 2008
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 744
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 978-0132396554
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
.. _ldd3_published:
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, 3rd 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/
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Michael Beck
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
 | 
						|
      :Date: 1997
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Eyrolles
 | 
						|
      :Date: 1997
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 520
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
 | 
						|
      :Notes: French
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
 | 
						|
        John S. Quarterman
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
 | 
						|
      :Date: 1996
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Uresh Vahalia
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
 | 
						|
      :Date: 1996
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 600
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
 | 
						|
      :Date: 1995
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 552
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
 | 
						|
      :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
 | 
						|
        POSIX. Good reference.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title:  **UNIX  Systems  for  Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Curt Schimmel
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Addison Wesley
 | 
						|
      :Date: June, 1994
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 432
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
 | 
						|
        Karels, John S. Quarterman
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
 | 
						|
      :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: Maurice J. Bach
 | 
						|
      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
 | 
						|
      :Date: 1986
 | 
						|
      :Pages: 471
 | 
						|
      :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
Miscellaneous
 | 
						|
-------------
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Name: **Cross-Referencing Linux**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :URL: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/
 | 
						|
      :Keywords: Browsing source code.
 | 
						|
      :Description: Another web-based Linux kernel source code browser.
 | 
						|
        Lots of cross references to variables and functions. You can see
 | 
						|
        where they are defined and where they are used.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Name: **Linux Weekly News**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :URL: http://lwn.net
 | 
						|
      :Keywords: latest kernel news.
 | 
						|
      :Description: The title says it all. There's a fixed kernel section
 | 
						|
        summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
 | 
						|
        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :Author: The Linux-MM team.
 | 
						|
      :URL: http://linux-mm.org/
 | 
						|
      :Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
 | 
						|
        mailing list.
 | 
						|
      :Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
 | 
						|
        Memory related patches, HOWTOs, links, mm developers... Don't miss
 | 
						|
        it if you are interested in memory management development!
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website**
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
      :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
 | 
						|
      :Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
 | 
						|
      :Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net.
 | 
						|
        #kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
 | 
						|
        kernel hacker. The audience mostly consists of people who are
 | 
						|
        learning about the kernel, working on kernel projects or
 | 
						|
        professional kernel hackers that want to help less seasoned kernel
 | 
						|
        people.
 | 
						|
        #kernelnewbies is on the OFTC IRC Network.
 | 
						|
        Try irc.oftc.net as your server and then /join #kernelnewbies.
 | 
						|
        The kernelnewbies website also hosts articles, documents, FAQs...
 | 
						|
 | 
						|
    * 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://groups.google.com/group/mlist.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 Tue 2016-Sep-20
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This document is based on:
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 http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
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