linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hpet: update the link

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:26:13 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpet: update the link

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> Looks like the HPET spec at intel.com got moved.
> Update the link.

Either we remove that link completely or we store that document at some stable
URL on kernel.org and be done with it.

I prefer to remove it. 

  1) It's just a bad example of hardware design by committee and we really do
     not need to promote it.
 
  2) Finding that spec if you really have to is not rocket science either.
 
Thanks,

	tglx