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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][resend] Remove spec doc links in hpet header files
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:33:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719183314.2d7d2331.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070720084510.GA1779@darkstar.te-china.tietoenator.com>

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:45:10 +0000
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> The links are broken, and already exist in Documentation/hpet.txt, so
> remove them for header files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> 
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> ---
> include/asm-i386/hpet.h   |    6 ------
> include/asm-x86_64/hpet.h |    6 ------
> 2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -pur linux/include/asm-i386/hpet.h linux.new/include/asm-i386/hpet.h
> --- linux/include/asm-i386/hpet.h	2007-07-11 11:15:42.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux.new/include/asm-i386/hpet.h	2007-07-11 11:16:51.000000000 +0000
> @@ -28,12 +28,6 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/timex.h>
>  
> -/*
> - * Documentation on HPET can be found at:
> - *      http://www.intel.com/ial/home/sp/pcmmspec.htm
> - *      ftp://download.intel.com/ial/home/sp/mmts098.pdf
> - */
> -
>  #define HPET_MMAP_SIZE	1024
>  
>  #define HPET_ID		0x000
> diff -pur linux/include/asm-x86_64/hpet.h linux.new/include/asm-x86_64/hpet.h
> --- linux/include/asm-x86_64/hpet.h	2007-07-11 11:16:07.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux.new/include/asm-x86_64/hpet.h	2007-07-11 11:17:03.000000000 +0000
> @@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_X8664_HPET_H
>  #define _ASM_X8664_HPET_H 1
>  
> -/*
> - * Documentation on HPET can be found at:
> - *      http://www.intel.com/ial/home/sp/pcmmspec.htm
> - *      ftp://download.intel.com/ial/home/sp/mmts098.pdf
> - */
> -
>  #define HPET_MMAP_SIZE	1024
>  
>  #define HPET_ID		0x000

It only half-applies here because 100 monkeys are tromping all over the
hpet code.

But I'm inclined to duck it anyway: having the documentation references in
the soruce doesn't hurt, and nobody looks in Documentation/.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-20  1:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-20  8:45 [PATCH][resend] Remove spec doc links in hpet header files Dave Young
2007-07-20  1:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-20  1:37   ` Dave Young

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