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Date:   Sun, 17 Oct 2021 09:27:24 +0200
From:   Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        arjan@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: update file link location

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:49:34PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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.

  Got it :)

  Thanks,
  tommaso
> 
> I'll apply this for now, though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon