From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3E791C8FD3; Tue, 1 Oct 2024 14:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1727793772; cv=none; b=N4pr8d5FkRc5MwJZJ6+X2oF18dNLQr36/lKgAHtivcU/qVvuVsAqfoUALalXGVz1j/9JEUT8aTrRVZNQz6Omula88bLSEfpM1FQS66PzLAHsd1LjodgivhKAwrLwlMLNEk75cjJgQL2eUBqSJVtLs5JAliCEN9VxA9WrbSLyB4Q= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1727793772; c=relaxed/simple; bh=U4GrEghVoP1WN9uwqwp45RxPINrOjl761dTu1qHdNCc=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=q7YKMcUILuTSCt4Ds8Jjt3haUErycXZKqhkQJ42ndXPPU2H0YNg4doYyoTSx83bcyUkuSYJX00dfmX08c6fjNbYAb56qrGy+oT6olFymk/YqTlznrboeC60CN/dzANBmsdSynFKTWqvnCdjGxUbEVfgR4uX09j1t6Igy9nSWuqQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=XN6BPNkF; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="XN6BPNkF" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 9C76142BFD DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1727793764; bh=U4GrEghVoP1WN9uwqwp45RxPINrOjl761dTu1qHdNCc=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=XN6BPNkFADZoRUYhm3gYb9nE4a6jOibDgCxDUgz/w+4Ko/Kxrx9CRPS6gVMzvwAB/ OUlMpj+shX3IyESDPQvmaZCWXD08ZLq0liw4ChG9PxrvHWe8Iq5zPJZ/pn46GgW7IS bhgiF9bKRgu+OLrmpaNW3byySrFGhGJJUHI6yzt32CkcF58d7ASmLD31LsRcZOOpEl LohVhStmBOgLN96gs5QbuEpgmghley9GUOJOq6jbDDbKVSfkeBhVQzUN7HeMiLJxfQ 2WNr7DSIfUcfSJ7lvrcq9Xg1K1Q96B3JE4owKtkBPjPGEStg/QIEQ0eEJ6RzW6W0p2 Agzfm1v+op0Jw== Received: from localhost (mdns.lwn.net [45.79.72.68]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C76142BFD; Tue, 1 Oct 2024 14:42:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, linux-doc , netdev Subject: Re: Doc on kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4d6edf70-57fb-43a1-bf15-330bd5f6405b@6wind.com> References: <4d6edf70-57fb-43a1-bf15-330bd5f6405b@6wind.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:42:35 -0600 Message-ID: <877car7ulg.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Nicolas Dichtel writes: > Hello, > > I'm not sure to address the right people. I wonder if it's possible to remove > some obsolete docs from kernel.org. > For example, the ip-sysctl page exists in two versions: txt and rst, but the txt > version is obsolete (removed from the kernel tree 4 years ago, in v5.8): > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst Everything under that URL is somewhat suspect, actually; the best thing to do is to look at https://docs.kernel.org/ instead. I agree that it would be good to clean up that stuff, I can't do that directly, but I know who to talk to about it. Thanks, jon