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Date:   Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:28:38 -0600
From:   Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
To:     Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
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        Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Remove stale URLs in the MAINTAINERS entry
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 02:31:52PM +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> On 2020/12/28 14:01, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 11:17 +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> >> Those URLs are no longer accessable.
> > 
> > The general argument to avoid removal of these no longer valid links
> > is that they may still be available from archive.org.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > It may be appropriate to copy the content into a local Documentation
> > file somewhere to avoid the need to lookup old reference links.
> > 
> 
> I don't think the contents in those links provide valuable information about cpusets.
> We have documents in Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup/ and man cpuset(7). So I think
> we can just remove them.

I agree, I did the archive.org lookup and it appeared that the current
version of most of this information is already under the Documentation
tree.

--> Steve

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