Re: [RFC v4]update broken web addresses in the kernel.

Justin P. Mattock
2010-09-27T16:39:07Z

On 09/27/2010 08:10 AM, 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.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c
>> index e8e2d0f..ba10b07 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/main.c
>> @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
>> *
>> * Portions based on wvlan_cs.c 1.0.6, Copyright Andreas Neuhaus<andy
>> * AT fasta.fh-dortmund.de>
>> - * http://www.stud.fh-dortmund.de/~andy/wvlan/
>> *
>> * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License
>> * Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070716051348/http://www.stud.fh-dortmund.de/~andy/wvlan/
>

most of the urls that are not removed that are still broken work with
the wayback machine..(from what I remember this one would give me a
server error(reason for removing), but it doesn't look so).

Thanks for this, I'll change that up.

Justin P. Mattock