Re: [PATCH] docs/dev-tools: fix a broken URL in dev-tools/coccinelle.rst

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 12:14:15 EST


LIU Haoyang <tttturtleruss@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The original supplemental documentation for coccicheck is
> https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck, which redirects to a not found page,
> thus change it to https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck.html,
> which adds a suffix to original URL to make it direct to the right page.
>
> Signed-off-by: LIU Haoyang <tttturtleruss@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
> index 2b942e3c8049..f73ccf5397f3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Supplemental documentation
>
> For supplemental documentation refer to the wiki:
>
> -https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck
> +https://bottest.wiki.kernel.org/coccicheck.html
>
> The wiki documentation always refers to the linux-next version of the script.

I'll apply this - a working URL is better than a broken one. But is
there really nothing better to link to than a page that warns "OBSOLETE
CONTENT" at the top?

Thanks,

jon