From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23DBC433E0 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A0420674 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:57:13 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="YfslfIQX" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727839AbgGNV5M (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:57:12 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39868 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726710AbgGNV5L (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:57:11 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1231::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38D3AC061755 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:57:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=JIt3Ae9F/kZhyCF5QZvbdMIjxIyoLl2rwNBgtFMNQRY=; b=YfslfIQXTcYIAVg9OPPVDupPJM /VtOcybkDTVk2IkuBc8Yfd5HL+S2g+2QFTz1mPds7wPHdt5MWBsH/fbN/NpNWL/ccEpeVx8BzfTXA bAyYyAI2oXiBSXiExLvc5Ggu2QJ/g8sKGHH8WBMx6nnQ+bX0eSGWWjQQHKqwAjFxEWa9YzF+O4Yrm E5XUlrGioP/beBOw812vMzkKvzbw6qNAWhQ3pZWWiUkYTZdUvfxWd0UYNmAVnJ9x+pDX5I9eFvNrr ImksVHkvXKJtUPXobrSq89wFkxuGkf2mBXWO6/uvdTw4k233lvjXF7VdAYneP5bde8PPtqQsNtZpo Ak2coXyA==; Received: from [2601:1c0:6280:3f0::19c2] by merlin.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jvSvA-0000jK-Qr; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:57:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] CREDITS: remove link http://www.dementia.org/~shadow To: Jonathan Corbet , "Alexander A. Klimov" Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ribalda@kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, luis.f.correia@gmail.com, geert+renesas@glider.be, paulburton@kernel.org, cyphar@cyphar.com, martink@posteo.de, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20200713114321.783f0ae6@lwn.net> <20200714193805.49746-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de> <20200714154708.71b3efe2@lwn.net> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: <083564e4-3099-15d0-9f18-04a8657a0885@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:56:58 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200714154708.71b3efe2@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/14/20 2:47 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:38:05 +0200 > "Alexander A. Klimov" wrote: > >> Rationale: >> The way it redirects looks like a fallback from a dead URL to a generic one. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov >> --- >> Yes, I noted that some of the links removed by these "CREDITS: remove link:" >> patches have email addresses with the same domain nearby. >> >> Don't worry, I'll take care of them together with all other >> dead email addresses - but not right now. >> >> >> CREDITS | 1 - >> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS >> index 0787b5872906..92ad22b7ef56 100644 >> --- a/CREDITS >> +++ b/CREDITS >> @@ -483,7 +483,6 @@ D: Intel Wireless WiMAX Connection 2400 SDIO driver >> >> N: Derrick J. Brashear >> E: shadow@dementia.org >> -W: http://www.dementia.org/~shadow > > So thanks for addressing these. That said, I do wonder if this is quite > the right thing to do. I'm assuming that the old sites still exist in the > wayback machine somewhere, and somebody might actually want to find them. > Pity the poor anthropologist researching the origins of the the > billion-line, free-software kernels widely used in the 2500's... > > So maybe we should either mark it as "[BROKEN]" or make a direct link into > the wayback machine instead? That would enable the suitably motivated to > go after the content that once existed. > > Thoughts anybody? I'm not going to be much help here: I like either of Jon's suggestions better than just deleting that line. -- ~Randy