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Message-ID: <797edfa5-60f3-4440-9384-bb9037c60c74@6wind.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 16:50:14 +0200
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Doc on kernel.org

Le 01/10/2024 à 16:42, Jonathan Corbet a écrit :
> Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm not sure to address the right people. I wonder if it's possible to remove
>> some obsolete docs from kernel.org.
>> For example, the ip-sysctl page exists in two versions: txt and rst, but the txt
>> version is obsolete (removed from the kernel tree 4 years ago, in v5.8):
>>
>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst
> 
> Everything under that URL is somewhat suspect, actually; the best thing
> to do is to look at https://docs.kernel.org/ instead.
> 
> I agree that it would be good to clean up that stuff, I can't do that
> directly, but I know who to talk to about it.

Thank you for your quick answer.
Yes, it would be great to clean this up, it's misleading :)


Regards,
Nicolas