linux-kernel - Re: doc: stable-api-nonsense missing link

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:33:31 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: doc: stable-api-nonsense missing link

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 08:20:31AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 03:19:53PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:14:08 +0100
> > Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it> wrote:
> > 
> > > in this document
> > > 
> > > Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
> > > 
> > > there is this note:
> > > 
> > > <insert link to leech comment from Andrew and Linus here>
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to get it fixed with the proper link? I searched for it without 
> > > success. If that comment is impossible to find I will send a patch to remove 
> > > that note, but first I wanted to ask you if you know where to get it.
> > 
> > That sounds like a question for Greg (copied).  Given that this document
> > predates the Git era, though, I suspect that whatever reference that was
> > meant to be is long since lost.
> 
> It was referring to an email thread about this topic that happened at
> the time I wrote the document.  Let me try to dig through my archives,
> but given that it was written well over a decade ago, I don't know if I
> will be able to find it easily...

I can't find it at the moment, so taking out the text in <...> is fine
with me.

thanks,

greg k-h