Re: Removing the deprecated htmldocs for good?

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev
Date: Fri Feb 10 2023 - 16:07:38 EST


On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 09:19:21AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > While scanning through the internet for kernel documentation, I
> > stumbled upon the old deprecated htmldocs under
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/. I see that on
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/, we already point out that 'htmldocs -
> > Kernel Documentation in docbook format (deprecated).' is deprecated.
> > If I am not mistaken, all the content from htmldocs has now been
> > transformed into .rst and has potentially evolved further and hence
> > all relevant information should also already be available somewhere in
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/.
> >
> > Is it now time to delete the content under
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/ for good?
>
> I think that time may have come, yes; perhaps just have it redirect to
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ instead?

I'm going through my backlog (of which I have lots) and I finally got around
to making this change. Requesting https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/ should
now send you to the archives site, and it's gone from the listing in
www.kernel.org/doc.

-K