[PATCH v2] Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

From: Chun-Hung Tseng
Date: Wed Aug 18 2021 - 23:16:38 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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**

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