linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: auxdisplay: remove obsolete webpages

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Message-ID: <CANiq72=LHVCob42HPqa453YD7kzX0dZyZxfscT=QS-xYh1u1Rw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:18:59 +0100
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: auxdisplay: remove obsolete webpages

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 09:32 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 02/10/2018 01:56 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>> > Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>
>> Are you merging this directly to Linus?  or what?
>
> A generic negative of these removals, even for ancient
> drivers that may or may not work anymore, is that the
> old links may still be found on things like the
> wayback machine/archive.org.

That is actually a good point. I just tried to pick it up in the
wayback machine and sadly it only saved the error page from Apache
when it was already gone. :(

>
> Miguel, do you have a copy of this link source?
>
> If you do, should it be introduced as a .rst into
> Documentation/ somewhere?

IIRC I had only some example usages and some photos of the device
working with the driver, etc. The docs I wrote are in
Documentation/auxdisplay/ (in particular the wiring required for the
device), so that is fine.

I will see in any case if I have it in my ancient backups :)

Cheers,
Miguel

>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> > ---
>> >  MAINTAINERS | 8 --------
>> >  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> > index e6c26cb47d02..01e302f7967e 100644
>> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> > @@ -2484,8 +2484,6 @@ F:    kernel/audit*
>> >
>> >  AUXILIARY DISPLAY DRIVERS
>> >  M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
>> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm
>> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm
>> >  S: Maintained
>> >  F: drivers/auxdisplay/
>> >  F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h
>> > @@ -3373,16 +3371,12 @@ F:  include/linux/usb/wusb*
>> >
>> >  CFAG12864B LCD DRIVER
>> >  M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
>> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm
>> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm
>> >  S: Maintained
>> >  F: drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864b.c
>> >  F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h
>
> Another suggestion would be to move
> "include/linux/cfag12864b.h" into drivers/auxdisplay
>
>> >  CFAG12864BFB LCD FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER
>> >  M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
>> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm
>> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm
>> >  S: Maintained
>> >  F: drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864bfb.c
>> >  F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h
>> > @@ -7866,8 +7860,6 @@ F:    kernel/kprobes.c
>> >
>> >  KS0108 LCD CONTROLLER DRIVER
>> >  M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
>> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm
>> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm
>> >  S: Maintained
>> >  F: Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108
>> >  F: drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c
>> >
>>
>>