Re: [PATCH] documentation: fix broken lkml archive links in RCU requirements

[Michael Opdenacker]

Richard, Paul,

Thank you for your replies!

On 09/09/2016 16:33, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 04:17:14PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Please don't add lkml.org. It does not use message ids for indexing.
> With knowing the message id you can query any other archive.
> e.g. http://marc.info/?i=20100319013024.GA28456@Krystal
> By adding lkml.org you kill that information. Archives come and go,
> the message id is the only common query id we have.
>
> IMHO kernel.org admins should fix/improve their redirection service to
> point to a working service.
> There has been some instability in the kernel.org redirection.  Right
> now, the /r/ services seems to work, though as noted the /g/ does not.
> Please report this to the Kernel.org administrators:
>
> 	https://kernel.org/category/contact-us.html
>
> 							Thanx, Paul

Done. I reported this issue to them and will keep an eye on it. I 
definitely agree that we shouldn't use the message ids. Otherwise, 
that's really a lot of detective work to find out which message was 
referred to. That's very good advise.

Thanks,

Michael.

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