[2.4 patch] NET_IPIP help: remove no longer available URL

[2.4 patch] NET_IPIP help: remove no longer available URL

[Adrian Bunk]

This patch solves Bugzilla #2445 by removing a no longer available URL
from the help text for NET_IPIP.

Noted by Nils Hammar <m4341@bedug.com>.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

--- linux-2.4.27-rc3-full/Documentation/Configure.help.old	2004-07-10 21:29:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.27-rc3-full/Documentation/Configure.help	2004-07-10 21:29:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -6172,8 +6172,7 @@
   can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
   appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
   mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
-  networks without changing their IP addresses; check out
-  <http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html>).
+  networks without changing their IP addresses).
 
   Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
   be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you

Re: [2.4 patch] NET_IPIP help: remove no longer available URL

[David S. Miller]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:34:07 +0200
Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:

> This patch solves Bugzilla #2445 by removing a no longer available URL
> from the help text for NET_IPIP.
> 
> Noted by Nils Hammar <m4341@bedug.com>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

Both 2.4.x and 2.6.x versions applied, thanks Adrian.

Re: [2.4 patch] NET_IPIP help: remove no longer available URL

[Ray Lee]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:34:07 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> - networks without changing their IP addresses; check out 
> - <http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html>). 
> + networks without changing their IP addresses).

How about updating the URL instead:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990420203353/http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html

Ray

Re: [2.4 patch] NET_IPIP help: remove no longer available URL

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 08:48:59PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:34:07 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
> > - networks without changing their IP addresses; check out 
> > - <http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html>). 
> > + networks without changing their IP addresses).
> 
> How about updating the URL instead:
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/19990420203353/http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html

This URL is too long for one line.

Besides this, it's nearly 8 years old and therefore not in any respect 
up-to-date (and if it's only in a web archive, it will never be 
updated).

> Ray

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Adrian

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Re: [2.4 patch] NET_IPIP help: remove no longer available URL

[Ray Lee]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 04:28, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > How about updating the URL instead:
> > 
> > http://web.archive.org/web/19990420203353/http://anchor.cs.binghamton.edu/~mobileip/LJ/index.html
> 
> This URL is too long for one line.

<nod> Good point, but trivially solved:  http://tinyurl.com/5sm9w

> Besides this, it's nearly 8 years old and therefore not in any respect 
> up-to-date

Just because it's old doesn't mean it's out of date. Have you read the
webpage in question? The majority of the page simply explains what
mobile-IP *is* on a primer level, and how it might be used. That hasn't
changed.

> (and if it's only in a web archive, it will never be updated).

That's a half-empty worldview. You should be saying "Yay! Since it's on
the wayback machine, the URL will always be good!"

If this is really a problem, we could create a WikiPedia entry for it.
However, the page is on the level of a long dictionary definition or an
encyclopedia entry, and so it's not much more out of date than most
RFCs, for example.

Ray