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From:   Henry Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 05:29:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel
 Module Programming Guide
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc:     jmseyas@dit.upm.es, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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As a side note, I tried to put Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche
<jmseyas@dit.upm.es> in cc, as indicated on the kernel-docs file. But
the email account is not reachable.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 5:16 AM Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Recently, the content and examples of the book "The Linux Kernel Module
> Programming Guide" are being actively maintained and added on Github[1].
> Currently, the book is being regularly built into webpage and pdf
> file using Github static page[2].
>
> [1]: https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg
> [2]: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
>
> Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> index 22d9ace5df2a..631a3dc04e3e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
> @@ -126,15 +126,17 @@ On-line docs
>          describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
>          Card Services.
>
> -    * Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
> +    * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
>
> -      :Author: Ori Pomerantz.
> -      :URL: https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
> -      :Date: 2001
> +      :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
> +      Jim Huang.
> +      :URL: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/
> +      :Date: 2021
>        :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.
> +      :Description: A very nice 93 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
> +        programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
> +        actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
>
>      * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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Best wishes,
Henry