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Documentation: update Michael K. Johnson's work

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 <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Luis de Bethencourt and committed by
Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
··· 194 194 simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the 195 195 hardware) involves managing network packets in memory". 196 196 197 - * Title: "Writing Linux Device Drivers" 197 + * Title: "Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide" 198 198 Author: Michael K. Johnson. 199 - URL: http://users.evitech.fi/~tk/rtos/writing_linux_device_d.html 200 - Keywords: files, VFS, file operations, kernel interface, character 201 - vs block devices, I/O access, hardware interrupts, DMA, access to 202 - user memory, memory allocation, timers. 203 - Description: Introductory 50-minutes (sic) tutorial on writing 204 - device drivers. 12 pages written by the same author of the "Kernel 205 - Hackers' Guide" which give a very good overview of the topic. 199 + URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html 200 + Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs 201 + block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory, 202 + memory allocation, timers. 203 + Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the 204 + concepts that are not intuitevly obvious, and to document the internal 205 + structures of Linux. 206 206 207 207 * Title: "The Venus kernel interface" 208 208 Author: Peter J. Braam.