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Subject: Re: [RFC v4]update broken web addresses in the kernel.
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 11:10 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:31:15AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > Below is an updated patch from the original fixing broken web addresses in the kernel.
> > Thanks for all the help and info on this to everybody..
> > Hopefully I didnt miss any of them(if so let me know, and I'll resend).
> Changing a URL for a relocated page is one thing, but removing links
> isn't necessarily a great idea.  Even if the site is technically
> gone, it may be possible to find information e.g through the Internet
> Archive Wayback Machine.

Perhaps it'd be better to scrape the contents of the various
web pages, collect them somewhere like wiki.kernel.org and
encourage others to put new contributions in that site.