From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755491AbcIIWxx (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2016 18:53:53 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-f195.google.com ([209.85.216.195]:32782 "EHLO mail-qt0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754738AbcIIWxu (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2016 18:53:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: replace broken specification URL To: Michael Opdenacker , James Bottomley , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org References: <1467442596-31310-1-git-send-email-michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> <1467470971.2400.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> From: Tyrel Datwyler Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 15:53:46 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/09/2016 01:16 AM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > Hi James, > > Thank you very much for your help... > > On 02/07/2016 16:49, James Bottomley wrote: >> On Sat, 2016-07-02 at 08:56 +0200, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >>> The t10.org website containing SCSI-2 draft specifications now >>> requires to be from a member company to access the documents. >>> >>> This replaces the now broken link with another public resource >>> where the specifications can be found. >> Just because T10 implemented a pay wall for standards, doesn't mean >> they're not still the definitive source. >> >> Adding a note about where you can get free versions is a useful >> service, please do, but we have to keep the official links. To be >> honest the Duisberg site doesn't seem useful because it only has the >> CAM standard. > > Understood. I found another location where all the documents seem to be > available: > http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/~cpop/Documentatie_SMP/Standarde_magistrale/SCSI/ This link is just a blank page with the CSIT background image when I follow it. This worked for me though: http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/~cpop/?dir=./Documentatie_SMP/Standarde_magistrale/SCSI -Tyrel >> >> The Wayback machine is more useful because it keeps a copy of the site >> (with the attached standards) just before the paywall went up: >> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20080828112749/http://t10.org/drafts.htm > > However, the PDF file from > https://web.archive.org/web/20080828112749/http://t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/cam/cam-r12b.pdf > fails to load at a 130810 byte limit. Other people have reported a > similar file size issue in the past. > > So, should we only that the cam-r12b document can be found from > http://www.t10.org/t10docs.htm (registration required)?, and tell that a > copy can be found on > http://www.csit-sun.pub.ro/~cpop/Documentatie_SMP/Standarde_magistrale/SCSI/? > > I'm trying to fix broken links in kernel documentation, which I publish > on http://free-electrons.com/kerneldoc/ . I have a broken link checker > for the http://free-electrons.com/ website, and it finds all the broken > links on http://free-electrons.com/kerneldoc/ . That's a good thing, > isn't need, but it means I have to get rid of the broken links :) > > Thanks again for your help, > > Cheers, > > Michael. >