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Documentation: update Michael K. Johnson's work
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The URL for "Writing Linux Device Drivers" hasn't been available in some
time. Updating the entry to Michael K. Johnson's "Linux Kernel Hackers'
Guide"

Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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luisbg authored and Jonathan Corbet committed Apr 15, 2016
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simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
hardware) involves managing network packets in memory".

* Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers"
* Title: "Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide"
Author: Michael K. Johnson.
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.
Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing
device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel
Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic.
URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
memory allocation, timers.
Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal
structures of Linux.

* Title: "The Venus kernel interface"
Author: Peter J. Braam.
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