From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Justin P. Mattock" Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:49:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC v4]update broken web addresses in the kernel. Message-Id: <4CA0CB0F.3060303@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <1285525875-9920-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <20100927151005.GC11086@tuxdriver.com> <1285603383.1732.106.camel@Joe-Laptop> In-Reply-To: <1285603383.1732.106.camel@Joe-Laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joe Perches Cc: "John W. Linville" , trivial@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Geert Uytterhoeven , Finn Thain , Randy Dunlap , Matt Turner , Dimitry Torokhov , Mike Frysinger On 09/27/2010 09:03 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 11:10 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:31:15AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >>> Below is an updated patch from the original fixing broken web addresses in the kernel. >>> Thanks for all the help and info on this to everybody.. >>> Hopefully I didnt miss any of them(if so let me know, and I'll resend). >> Changing a URL for a relocated page is one thing, but removing links >> isn't necessarily a great idea. Even if the site is technically >> gone, it may be possible to find information e.g through the Internet >> Archive Wayback Machine. > > Perhaps it'd be better to scrape the contents of the various > web pages, collect them somewhere like wiki.kernel.org and > encourage others to put new contributions in that site. > > > > yeah I think somebody was saying something about having a separate file, with all the web addresses in them or something...In any case, up to you guys.. Justin P. Mattock