docs: Retire old resources from kernel-docs.rst

Remove outdated or obsolete resources from process/kernel-docs.rst, with
the exception of foundational material. Update information regarding
LWN.net. See Link below for further context.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/093907af-2e4e-d232-1eb0-7331ff2b9320@amd.com/
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124170242.1892751-3-carlos.bilbao@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
index 5e533c827cef..d66ac26e2f27 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's
 .. note::
 
    The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
-   published date, from the newest to the oldest.
+   published date, from the newest to the oldest. The maintainer(s) should
+   periodically retire resources as they become obsolte or outdated; with
+   the exception of foundational books.
 
 Docs at the Linux Kernel tree
 -----------------------------
@@ -58,24 +60,6 @@ On-line docs
         a brief description of some of the acronyms and terms you may hear
         during discussion of the Linux kernel".
 
-    * 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,
-        illustrated at tracing the way of a TCP packet through the kernel.
-      :Abstract: *This short paper outlines the usage of ftrace a tracing framework
-        as a tool to understand a running Linux system.
-        Having obtained a trace-log a kernel hacker can read and understand
-        source code more determined and with context.
-        In a detailed example this approach is demonstrated in tracing
-        and the way of data in a TCP Connection through the kernel.
-        Finally this trace-log is used as base for more a exact conceptual
-        exploration and description of the Linux TCP/IP implementation.*
-
     * Title: **The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide**
 
       :Author: Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram,
@@ -88,380 +72,9 @@ On-line docs
         programming. Lots of examples. Currently the new version is being
         actively maintained at https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg.
 
-    * Title: **On submitting kernel Patches**
-
-      :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 likely they get merged.
-      :Abstract:
-        [...]. This paper examines some common problems for
-        submitting larger changes and some strategies to avoid problems.
-
-    * Title: **Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition**
-
-      :Author: Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, Greg Kroah-Hartman
-      :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
-        Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
-      :note: You can also :ref:`purchase a copy from O'Reilly or elsewhere  <ldd3_published>`.
-
-    * Title: **Writing an ALSA Driver**
-
-      :Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
-      :URL: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.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
-        sound architecture in the 2.6 kernel version.
-
-    * Title: **Linux PCMCIA Programmer's Guide**
-
-      :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
-        describes how to write user-mode utilities for communicating with
-        Card Services.
-
-    * Title: **How NOT to write kernel drivers**
-
-      :Author: Arjan van de Ven.
-      :URL: https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
-      :Date: 2002
-      :Keywords: driver.
-      :Description: Programming bugs and Do-nots in kernel driver development
-      :Abstract: *Quit a few tutorials, articles and books give an introduction
-        on how to write Linux kernel drivers. Unfortunately the things one
-        should NOT do in Linux kernel code is either only a minor appendix
-        or, more commonly, completely absent. This paper tries to briefly touch
-        the areas in which the most common and serious bugs and do-nots are
-        encountered.*
-
-    * Title: **Global spinlock list and usage**
-
-      :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
-        list of spinlocks showing when they are used, which functions
-        access them, how each lock is acquired, under what conditions it
-        is held, whether interrupts can occur or not while it is held...
-
-    * Title: **A Linux vm README**
-
-      :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
-        relating the Linux virtual memory implementation.
-
-    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 1: Video-Capture Device**
-
-      :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.
-
-    * Title: **Video4linux Drivers, Part 2: Video-capture Devices**
-
-      :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.
-
-    * Title: **Linux IP Networking. A Guide to the Implementation and Modification of the Linux Protocol Stack.**
-
-      :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.
-      :Description: Excellent paper devoted to the Linux IP Networking,
-        explaining anything from the kernel's to the user space
-        configuration tools' code. Very good to get a general overview of
-        the kernel networking implementation and understand all steps
-        packets follow from the time they are received at the network
-        device till they are delivered to applications. The studied kernel
-        code is from 2.2.14 version. Provides code for a working packet
-        dropper example.
-
-    * Title: **How To Make Sure Your Driver Will Work On The Power Macintosh**
-
-      :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.
-
-    * Title: **An Introduction to SCSI Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/284
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **Advanced SCSI Drivers And Other Tales**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/307
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: SCSI, device, driver, advanced.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **Writing Linux Mouse Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :URL: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/330
-      :Date: 1999
-      :Keywords: mouse, driver, gpm.
-      :Description: The title says it all.
-
-    * Title: **More on Mouse Drivers**
-
-      :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.
-
-    * Title: **Writing Video4linux Radio Driver**
-
-      :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.
-
-    * Title: **I/O Event Handling Under Linux**
-
-      :Author: Richard Gooch.
-      :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.
-      :Description: From the Introduction: "I/O Event handling is about
-        how your Operating System allows you to manage a large number of
-        open files (file descriptors in UNIX/POSIX, or FDs) in your
-        application. You want the OS to notify you when FDs become active
-        (have data ready to be read or are ready for writing). Ideally you
-        want a mechanism that is scalable. This means a large number of
-        inactive FDs cost very little in memory and CPU time to manage".
-
-    * Title: **(nearly) Complete Linux Loadable Kernel Modules. The definitive guide for hackers, virus coders and system administrators.**
-
-      :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
-        files/directories/processes invisible, become root, hijack ttys,
-        write kernel modules based virus... and solutions for admins to
-        avoid all those abuses.
-      :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.
-
-    * Title: **The Venus kernel interface**
-
-      :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
-        of the Coda filesystem. This version document is meant to describe
-        the current interface (version 1.0) as well as improvements we
-        envisage".
-
-    * Title: **Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem**
-
-      :Author: Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o, Stephen Tweedie.
-      :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,
-        ext2fs tools, e2fsck.
-      :Description: Paper written by three of the top ext2 hackers.
-        Covers Linux filesystems history, ext2 motivation, ext2 features,
-        design, physical structure on disk, performance, benchmarks,
-        e2fsck's passes description... A must read!
-      :Notes: This paper was first published in the Proceedings of the
-        First Dutch International Symposium on Linux, ISBN 90-367-0385-9.
-
-    * Title: **The Linux RAID-1, 4, 5 Code**
-
-      :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.
-      :Abstract: *A description of the implementation of the RAID-1,
-        RAID-4 and RAID-5 personalities of the MD device driver in the
-        Linux kernel, providing users with high performance and reliable,
-        secondary-storage capability using software*.
-
-    * Title: **Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide**
-
-      :Author: Michael K. Johnson.
-      :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,
-        memory allocation, timers.
-      :Description: A guide designed to help you get up to speed on the
-        concepts that are not intuitively obvious, and to document the internal
-        structures of Linux.
-
-    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers**
-
-      :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.
-      :Abstract: *This is the first of a series of four articles
-        co-authored by Alessandro Rubini and Georg Zezchwitz which present
-        a practical approach to writing Linux device drivers as kernel
-        loadable modules. This installment presents an introduction to the
-        topic, preparing the reader to understand next month's
-        installment*.
-
-    * Title: **Dynamic Kernels: Discovery**
-
-      :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().
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article.
-      :Abstract: *This article, the second of four, introduces part of
-        the actual code to create custom module implementing a character
-        device driver. It describes the code for module initialization and
-        cleanup, as well as the open() and close() system calls*.
-
-    * Title: **The Devil's in the Details**
-
-      :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.
-      :Abstract: *This article, the third of four on writing character
-        device drivers, introduces concepts of reading, writing, and using
-        ioctl-calls*.
-
-    * Title: **Dissecting Interrupts and Browsing DMA**
-
-      :Author: Alessandro Rubini and Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-      :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.
-      :Abstract: *This is the fourth in a series of articles about
-        writing character device drivers as loadable kernel modules. This
-        month, we further investigate the field of interrupt handling.
-        Though it is conceptually simple, practical limitations and
-        constraints make this an ''interesting'' part of device driver
-        writing, and several different facilities have been provided for
-        different situations. We also investigate the complex topic of
-        DMA*.
-
-    * Title: **Device Drivers Concluded**
-
-      :Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz.
-      :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,
-        virtual memory areas (VMAs), vremap, PCI.
-      :Description: Finally, the above turned out into a five articles
-        series. This latest one's introduction reads: "This is the last of
-        five articles about character device drivers. In this final
-        section, Georg deals with memory mapping devices, beginning with
-        an overall description of the Linux memory management concepts".
-
-    * Title: **Network Buffers And Memory Management**
-
-      :Author: Alan Cox.
-      :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,
-        configuration, multicast.
-      :Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner.
-      :Abstract: *Writing a network device driver for Linux is fundamentally
-        simple---most of the complexity (other than talking to the
-        hardware) involves managing network packets in memory*.
-
-    * Title: **Analysis of the Ext2fs structure**
-
-      :Author: Louis-Dominique Dubeau.
-      :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,
-        bitmaps, invariants...
-
 Published books
 ---------------
 
-    * Title: **Linux Treiber entwickeln**
-
-      :Author: Jürgen Quade, Eva-Katharina Kunst
-      :Publisher: dpunkt.verlag
-      :Date: Oct 2015 (4th edition)
-      :Pages: 688
-      :ISBN: 978-3-86490-288-8
-      :Note: German. The third edition from 2011 is
-         much cheaper and still quite up-to-date.
-
-    * Title: **Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory**
-
-      :Author: Rami Rosen
-      :Publisher: Apress
-      :Date: December 22, 2013
-      :Pages: 648
-      :ISBN: 978-1430261964
-
-    * Title: **Embedded Linux Primer: A practical Real-World Approach, 2nd Edition**
-
-      :Author: Christopher Hallinan
-      :Publisher: Pearson
-      :Date: November, 2010
-      :Pages: 656
-      :ISBN: 978-0137017836
-
     * Title: **Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition**
 
       :Author: Robert Love
@@ -469,14 +82,7 @@ Published books
       :Date: July, 2010
       :Pages: 440
       :ISBN: 978-0672329463
-
-    * Title: **Essential Linux Device Drivers**
-
-      :Author: Sreekrishnan Venkateswaran
-      :Published: Prentice Hall
-      :Date: April, 2008
-      :Pages: 744
-      :ISBN: 978-0132396554
+      :Notes: Foundational book
 
 .. _ldd3_published:
 
@@ -487,68 +93,10 @@ Published books
       :Date: 2005
       :Pages: 636
       :ISBN: 0-596-00590-3
-      :Notes: Further information in
+      :Notes: Foundational book. Further information in
         http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/
         PDF format, URL: https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
 
-    * Title: **Linux Kernel Internals**
-
-      :Author: Michael Beck
-      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
-      :Date: 1997
-      :ISBN: 0-201-33143-8 (second edition)
-
-    * Title: **Programmation Linux 2.0 API systeme et fonctionnement du noyau**
-
-      :Author: Remy Card, Eric Dumas, Franck Mevel
-      :Publisher: Eyrolles
-      :Date: 1997
-      :Pages: 520
-      :ISBN: 2-212-08932-5
-      :Notes: French
-
-    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD UNIX Operating System**
-
-      :Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels,
-        John S. Quarterman
-      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
-      :Date: 1996
-      :ISBN: 0-201-54979-4
-
-    * Title: **Unix internals -- the new frontiers**
-
-      :Author: Uresh Vahalia
-      :Publisher: Prentice Hall
-      :Date: 1996
-      :Pages: 600
-      :ISBN: 0-13-101908-2
-
-    * Title: **Programming for the real world - POSIX.4**
-
-      :Author: Bill O. Gallmeister
-      :Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
-      :Date: 1995
-      :Pages: 552
-      :ISBN: I-56592-074-0
-      :Notes: Though not being directly about Linux, Linux aims to be
-        POSIX. Good reference.
-
-    * Title:  **UNIX  Systems  for  Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers**
-
-      :Author: Curt Schimmel
-      :Publisher: Addison Wesley
-      :Date: June, 1994
-      :Pages: 432
-      :ISBN: 0-201-63338-8
-
-    * Title: **The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System**
-
-      :Author: Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J
-        Karels, John S. Quarterman
-      :Publisher: Addison-Wesley
-      :Date: 1989 (reprinted with corrections on October, 1990)
-      :ISBN: 0-201-06196-1
-
     * Title: **The Design of the UNIX Operating System**
 
       :Author: Maurice J. Bach
@@ -556,6 +104,7 @@ Published books
       :Date: 1986
       :Pages: 471
       :ISBN: 0-13-201757-1
+      :Notes: Foundational book
 
 Miscellaneous
 -------------
@@ -574,7 +123,7 @@ Miscellaneous
       :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
-        produced during the week. Published every Thursday.
+        produced during the week.
 
     * Name: **The home page of Linux-MM**