linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: update file link location

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Message-ID: <87ee8quipd.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:49:34 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@...il.com>
Cc:     tomm.merciai@...il.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arjan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: update file link location

Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@...il.com> writes:

[CC += Arjan just in case]

> Fix web error: this site can't be reached
>
> Signed-off-by: Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
> index 3861887e0ca5..8413b693d10d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Linux USB project:
>  	http://www.linux-usb.org/
>  
>  How to NOT write kernel driver by Arjan van de Ven:
> -	http://www.fenrus.org/how-to-not-write-a-device-driver-paper.pdf
> +	https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf

This is an OK change, I guess...a working link is better than a broken
one.  That said, I do have to wonder whether this link needs to be
preserved at all.  That paper was good advice 19 years ago, but I'm not
sure it has much to tell people in 2021; the days of having to tell
developers to think about SMP systems are past.

I'll apply this for now, though.

Thanks,

jon