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From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: scsi: dc395x: Remove reference to
 2.4 driver
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Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Fri, 5 May 2023, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>
>> The 2.4 driver link returns 404. 
>
> It's still potentially useful:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20140129181343/http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/
>
>> As no one runs 2.4 kernel anymore,
>
> Would it make a difference if someone does run that? Were you planning to 
> delete the source code for the 2.4 kernel too?

Most of the 2.4 code has indeed been deleted *from current kernels*.
It's not clear to me why 2.4 documentation should be immune to that same
process.  If we keep every 20-year-old reference, our docs will be even
cruftier and less useful than they are now.

Thanks,

jon