Re: [PATCH next 00/45] doc: fix some issues reported by linkcheck

[Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>]

Hi Heinrich,

On 8/27/26 1:03 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 8/25/26 18:49, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>> Saw a dead link and made the mistake of running `make linkcheckdocs`.
>> Now I'm knee-deep in it and cannot ignore all the dead and redirected
>> links. A day later, I've had enough so this is what I managed to fix in
>> that time. There are many URLs still redirecting (could be fine, but
>> needs to be individually checked as some big companies have a tendencies
>> to redirect to generic pages instead of issuing 404s...) or returning
>> 4xx. The issue is that those 4xx also need to be individually checked
>> because since the AIpocalypse has started many websites now have web
>> crawler protection in place and linkcheck will trigger those and be
>> denied access (or be heavily rate limited).
>>
>> Please be mindful and only run this script once, save its output and
>> work on fixing individual errors without rerunning the script, otherwise
>> we would only participate in hammering websites even more (linkcheck
>> runs multiple workers in parallel and retries when rate-limited).
>>
>> Note that linkcheck doesn't check for links in code-blocks so our
>> instructions may point at dead links also.
>>
>> At an attempt to avoid tens of people running linkcheck at the same
>> time, here's the output sorted and filtered on !ok status:
> 
> Hello Quentin,
> 
> in patchwork.ozlabs.org, lore.kernel.org/u-boot, and https:// 
> eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.u-boot- 
> project.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cquentin.schulz%40cherry.de%7C3c09d2cdb28041d4b5cc08df042aede7%7C5e0e1b5221b54e7b83bb514ec460677e%7C0%7C0%7C639234254572323528%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EVMJd%2FfRl5KHcaDFXZvcck%2F38e8nTUtVCJ61A8CT1Cg%3D&reserved=0 only patches 1 - 21 arrived.
> 

I know, 
https://lists.u-boot-project.org/pipermail/u-boot/2026-August/629812.html 
(for some reason it didn't make it to lore.kernel.org...).

I once again got rate limited for 24h, so the last three patches will 
have to wait for this weekend. I'll likely need to split this in two or 
three for a v2 so I don't get rate-limited in the middle of a series.

> Please, send the rest of the series using
> 
> --in-reply-to=20260825-linkcheck-v1-0-ee7573fe3a4a@cherry.de
> 

Thanks, was wondering how to do that!

Cheers,
Quentin