Re: [PATCH] docs: update file link location

From: Tommaso Merciai
Date: Sun Oct 17 2021 - 03:27:49 EST


On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:49:34PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> [CC += Arjan just in case]
>
> > Fix web error: this site can't be reached
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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