Re: [PATCH 02/11] Docs/scsi: introduction: multiple cleanups

[Finn Thain]

On Thu, 18 May 2023, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Modify URLs to use https instead of http.
> Remove ancient URLs that don't work.
> Change "scsi" in text to "SCSI".
> Change "cdrom" in text to "CD-ROM".
> Drop the reference to "autoclean" for modules since I can't
>   find it in any current documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  Documentation/scsi/scsi.rst |   23 ++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi.rst b/Documentation/scsi/scsi.rst
> --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi.rst
> @@ -6,30 +6,28 @@ SCSI subsystem documentation
>  
>  The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) maintains a document describing
>  the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel (lk) 2.4 series. See:
> -http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO . The LDP has single
> +https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO . The LDP has single
>  and multiple page HTML renderings as well as postscript and pdf.
> -It can also be found at:
> -http://web.archive.org/web/%2E/http://www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO
>  

That link got corrupted by commit b7223d9bdec. It used to be
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO
which does actually work.

FWIW, I'm not in favour of replacing any links with archive.org links 
unless no better source can be found. I am in favour of citations in the 
form of a link with retrieval date. In this context the date can often be 
inferred from commit or release dates.

Therefore, a second commit, 0ea6e611221, could also be reverted with 
regards to this link (if you're planning to edit it). Just my $0.02.