The current -mm patch is available in the "mmotm" (-mm of the moment)
directory at:
- http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/
+ https://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/
Use of the MMOTM tree is likely to be a frustrating experience, though;
there is a definite chance that it will not even compile.
Linux-next trees are announced on the linux-kernel and linux-next mailing
lists when they are assembled; they can be downloaded from:
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/
+ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/
Linux-next has become an integral part of the kernel development process;
all patches merged during a given merge window should really have found
Git is now packaged by almost all Linux distributions. There is a home
page at:
- http://git-scm.com/
+ https://git-scm.com/
That page has pointers to documentation and tutorials.
Among the kernel developers who do not use git, the most popular choice is
almost certainly Mercurial:
- http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
+ https://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
Mercurial shares many features with git, but it provides an interface which
many find easier to use.
The other tool worth knowing about is Quilt:
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/
+ https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/
Quilt is a patch management system, rather than a source code management
system. It does not track history over time; it is, instead, oriented
with others on getting things fixed up (this can require
persistence!) but that's fine - it's a part of kernel development.
-(http://lwn.net/Articles/283982/).
+(https://lwn.net/Articles/283982/).
In the absence of obvious problems to fix, developers are advised to look
at the current lists of regressions and open bugs in general. There is
progress at all. Is it two steps forwards, one step back, or one
step forward and two steps back?
-(http://lwn.net/Articles/243460/).
+(https://lwn.net/Articles/243460/).
An especially unwelcome type of regression is any sort of change to the
user-space ABI. Once an interface has been exported to user space, it must
Blackfin development board handy, you can still perform the compilation
step. A large set of cross compilers for x86 systems can be found at
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/
+ https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/
Some time spent installing and using these compilers will help avoid
embarrassment later.
(How to avoid) Botching up ioctls
=================================
-From: http://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/11/botching-up-ioctls.html
+From: https://blog.ffwll.ch/2013/11/botching-up-ioctls.html
By: Daniel Vetter, Copyright © 2013 Intel Corporation
---------------------
DevFS has been obsoleted in favour of udev
-(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/)
+(https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/)
32-bit UID support is now in place. Have fun!
udev
----
-- <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/udev.html>
+- <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/udev.html>
FUSE
----
Sphinx
------
-- <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/>
+- <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/>
your repositories. Otherwise, you can either download pre-built
LLVM/clang binaries or build the source code from:
- http://releases.llvm.org/download.html
+ https://releases.llvm.org/download.html
See more information about the tool at:
ISBN 0-201-61586-X.
GNU manuals - where in compliance with K&R and this text - for cpp, gcc,
-gcc internals and indent, all available from http://www.gnu.org/manual/
+gcc internals and indent, all available from https://www.gnu.org/manual/
WG14 is the international standardization working group for the programming
language C, URL: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/
ChangeLog section of the document:
"The Perfect Patch"
- http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
+ https://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
All of these things are sometimes very hard to do. It can take years to
* Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
:Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
- :URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
+ :URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
:Date: 2005
:Description: A 600-page book covering the (2.6.10) driver
programming API and kernel hacking in general. Available under the
* Title: **Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
:Author: Ori Pomerantz.
- :URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
+ :URL: https://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
interrupt handlers .
* Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
:Author: Richard Gooch.
- :URL: http://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
+ :URL: https://web.mit.edu/~yandros/doc/io-events.html
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: IO, I/O, select(2), poll(2), FDs, aio_read(2), readiness
event queues.
* Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
:Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
- :URL: http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
+ :URL: https://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: ext2, linux fs history, inode, directory, link, devices,
VFS, physical structure, performance, benchmarks, ext2fs library,
* Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
:Author: Michael K. Johnson.
- :URL: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
+ :URL: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/khg.html
:Date: 1997
:Keywords: device drivers, files, VFS, kernel interface, character vs
block devices, hardware interrupts, scsi, DMA, access to user memory,
* Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
:Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
- :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
+ :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
* Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
- :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
+ :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
* Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
:Author: Alan Cox.
- :URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
+ :URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
* Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
:Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
- :URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
+ :URL: https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
:Date: 1994
:Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
:Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
:ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
:Notes: Further information in
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
- PDF format, URL: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
+ PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
* Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
* Name: **Linux Weekly News**
- :URL: http://lwn.net
+ :URL: https://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
* Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
:Author: The Linux-MM team.
- :URL: http://linux-mm.org/
+ :URL: https://linux-mm.org/
:Keywords: memory management, Linux-MM, mm patches, TODO, docs,
mailing list.
:Description: Site devoted to Linux Memory Management development.
* Name: **Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website**
- :URL: http://www.kernelnewbies.org
+ :URL: https://www.kernelnewbies.org
:Keywords: IRC, newbies, channel, asking doubts.
:Description: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net.
#kernelnewbies is an IRC network dedicated to the 'newbie'
Document last updated on Tue 2016-Sep-20
This document is based on:
- http://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
+ https://www.dit.upm.es/~jmseyas/linux/kernel/hackers-docs.html
.. _`Nitrokey Start`: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-start-6
.. _`Nitrokey Pro 2`: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-pro-2-3
.. _`Yubikey 5`: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-5-overview/
-.. _Gnuk: http://www.fsij.org/doc-gnuk/
+.. _Gnuk: https://www.fsij.org/doc-gnuk/
.. _`LWN has a good review`: https://lwn.net/Articles/736231/
.. _`qualify for a free Nitrokey Start`: https://www.kernel.org/nitrokey-digital-tokens-for-kernel-developers.html
This document is intended to explain how to submit device drivers to the
various kernel trees. Note that if you are interested in video card drivers
-you should probably talk to XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org
-(http://x.org/) instead.
+you should probably talk to XFree86 (https://www.xfree86.org/) and/or X.Org
+(https://x.org/) instead.
.. note::
Major and minor numbers for block and character devices are allocated
by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently this is
-Torben Mathiasen). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This
+Torben Mathiasen). The site is https://www.lanana.org/. This
also deals with allocating numbers for devices that are not going to
be submitted to the mainstream kernel.
See :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst <admin_devices>`
where *country_code* == your country code, such as
**us**, **uk**, **fr**, etc.
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
+ https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Linux kernel mailing list:
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[mail majordomo@vger.kernel.org to subscribe]
Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition (covers 2.6.10):
- http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ (free version)
+ https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ (free version)
LWN.net:
- Weekly summary of kernel development activity - http://lwn.net/
+ Weekly summary of kernel development activity - https://lwn.net/
2.6 API changes:
- http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/
+ https://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/
Porting drivers from prior kernels to 2.6:
- http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/
+ https://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/
KernelNewbies:
Documentation and assistance for new kernel programmers
- http://kernelnewbies.org/
+ https://kernelnewbies.org/
Linux USB project:
http://www.linux-usb.org/
http://www.fenrus.org/how-to-not-write-a-device-driver-paper.pdf
Kernel Janitor:
- http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors
+ https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors
GIT, Fast Version Control System:
- http://git-scm.com/
+ https://git-scm.com/
very important if you want your patch accepted.
If you're using ``git``, ``git rebase -i`` can help you with this process. If
-you're not using ``git``, ``quilt`` <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt>
+you're not using ``git``, ``quilt`` <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt>
is another popular alternative.
.. _describe_changes:
----------
Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp).
- <http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt>
+ <https://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt>
Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format".
<https://web.archive.org/web/20180829112450/http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html>
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