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Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add dates for online docs 

It is a way better to have a timestamp to help identifying
when something is too old.

So, retrieve the dates marked on the existing documents.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
:URL: http://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
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Richard Gooch.
:URL: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
:Date: 2007
:Keywords: VFS, File System, mounting filesystems, opening files,
dentries, dcache.
:Description: Brief introduction to the Linux Virtual File System.
@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman and Miguel de Icaza.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2391
:Date: 1997
:Keywords: RAID, MD driver.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
@ -117,6 +120,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1219
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: device driver, module, loading/unloading modules,
allocating resources.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
@ -131,6 +135,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1220
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: character driver, init_module, clean_up module,
autodetection, mayor number, minor number, file operations,
open(), close().
@ -144,6 +149,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Andi Kleen
:URL: http://halobates.de/on-submitting-kernel-patches.pdf
:Date: 2008
:Keywords: patches, review process, types of submissions, basic rules, case studies
:Description: This paper gives several experience values on what types of patches
there are and how likley they get merged.
@ -154,6 +160,7 @@ On-line docs
* Title: **Tracing the Way of Data in a TCP Connection through the Linux Kernel**
:Author: Richard Sailer
:URL: https://archive.org/details/linux_kernel_data_flow_short_paper
:Date: 2016
:Keywords: Linux Kernel Networking, TCP, tracing, ftrace
:Description: A seminar paper explaining ftrace and how to use it for
understanding linux kernel internals,
@ -171,6 +178,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz and Alessandro Rubini.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1221
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: read(), write(), select(), ioctl(), blocking/non
blocking mode, interrupt handler.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
@ -182,6 +190,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1222
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: interrupts, irqs, DMA, bottom halves, task queues.
:Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
:Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
@ -197,6 +206,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1287
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: address spaces, pages, pagination, page management,
demand loading, swapping, memory protection, memory mapping, mmap,
virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
@ -210,6 +220,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1312
:Date: 1996
:Keywords: sk_buffs, network devices, protocol/link layer
variables, network devices flags, transmit, receive,
configuration, multicast.
@ -222,6 +233,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Michael K. Johnson.
:URL: http://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,
memory allocation, timers.
@ -233,6 +245,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
:URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: coda, filesystem, venus, cache manager.
:Description: "This document describes the communication between
Venus and kernel level file system code needed for the operation
@ -244,6 +257,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
:URL: http://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,
ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
@ -258,6 +272,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
:URL: http://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS2002/fs-ext2/
:Date: 1994
:Keywords: ext2, filesystem, ext2fs.
:Description: Description of ext2's blocks, directories, inodes,
bitmaps, invariants...
@ -266,6 +281,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Ori Pomerantz.
:URL: http://tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.6/html/index.html
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: modules, GPL book, /proc, ioctls, system calls,
interrupt handlers .
:Description: Very nice 92 pages GPL book on the topic of modules
@ -274,6 +290,8 @@ On-line docs
* Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
:Author: Richard Gooch.
:URL: http://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.
:Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
@ -288,6 +306,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
:URL: http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/writing-an-alsa-driver/index.html
:Date: 2005
:Keywords: ALSA, sound, soundcard, driver, lowlevel, hardware.
:Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for developers,
both at kernel and user-level sides. ALSA is the Linux kernel
@ -297,6 +316,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: various
:URL: http://kernelnewbies.org/glossary/
:Date: rolling version
:Keywords: glossary, terms, linux-kernel.
:Description: From the introduction: "This glossary is intended as
a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
@ -306,6 +326,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Rick Lindsley.
:URL: http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: spinlock.
:Description: This is an attempt to document both the existence and
usage of the spinlocks in the Linux 2.4.5 kernel. Comprehensive
@ -317,6 +338,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Paul Mackerras.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/261
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: Mac, Power Macintosh, porting, drivers, compatibility.
:Description: The title says it all.
@ -324,6 +346,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
:Description: The title says it all.
@ -331,6 +354,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
:Description: The title says it all.
@ -338,6 +362,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
:Description: The title says it all.
@ -345,6 +370,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/356
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm, races, asynchronous I/O.
:Description: The title still says it all.
@ -352,6 +378,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/381
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, radio, radio devices.
:Description: The title says it all.
@ -359,6 +386,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/406
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver.
:Description: The title says it all.
@ -367,6 +395,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Alan Cox.
:URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/429
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: video4linux, driver, video capture, capture devices,
camera driver, control, query capabilities, capability, facility.
:Description: The title says it all.
@ -375,6 +404,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Glenn Herrin.
:URL: http://www.cs.unh.edu/cnrg/gherrin
:Date: 2000
:Keywords: network, networking, protocol, IP, UDP, TCP, connection,
socket, receiving, transmitting, forwarding, routing, packets,
modules, /proc, sk_buff, FIB, tags.
@ -391,6 +421,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: David Hinds.
:URL: http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-PROG.html
:Date: 2003
:Keywords: PCMCIA.
:Description: "This document describes how to write kernel device
drivers for the Linux PCMCIA Card Services interface. It also
@ -401,6 +432,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: Kanoj Sarcar.
:URL: http://kos.enix.org/pub/linux-vmm.html
:Date: 2001
:Keywords: virtual memory, mm, pgd, vma, page, page flags, page
cache, swap cache, kswapd.
:Description: Telegraphic, short descriptions and definitions
@ -410,6 +442,7 @@ On-line docs
:Author: pragmatic/THC.
:URL: http://packetstormsecurity.org/docs/hack/LKM_HACKING.html
:Date: 1999
:Keywords: syscalls, intercept, hide, abuse, symbol table.
:Description: Interesting paper on how to abuse the Linux kernel in
order to intercept and modify syscalls, make
@ -419,6 +452,16 @@ On-line docs
:Notes: For 2.0.x kernels. Gives guidances to port it to 2.2.x
kernels.
* Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
:URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
:Date: 1998
:Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
:Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
dcache.
.. Please keep the published books in reverse publication date
Published books
@ -564,15 +607,6 @@ Miscellaneous
summarizing developers' work, bug fixes, new features and versions
produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
* Name: **Linux Virtual File System**
:Author: Peter J. Braam.
:URL: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/talks/linuxvfs/
:Keywords: slides, VFS, inode, superblock, dentry, dcache.
:Description: Set of slides, presumably from a presentation on the
Linux VFS layer. Covers version 2.1.x, with dentries and the
dcache.
* Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**
:Author: The Linux-MM team.