From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933287Ab0I0QtN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:49:13 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:48357 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756953Ab0I0QtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:49:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ja10OID2Z7CqMiLwgLwl7k/YucrRhaxNFBluNr+UdgEL9zD5Q9JokC7bp+1wewN8O/ 7ohHipSBMP+j3k1eviiUb72WrRoAttaJzXPYdObYTLPNMtNQjBYrWeRcGN/s+XoUG4aK Fa5VejlzUrDzNvmuj/vAnUjabjhBjKf8yk9gw= Message-ID: <4CA0CB0F.3060303@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:49:19 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre MIME-Version: 1.0 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 Subject: Re: [RFC v4]update broken web addresses in the kernel. 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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