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From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4] bpf: Fix some invalid links in
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:46:33 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> writes:
> 
> > There exist some errors "404 Not Found" when I click the link
> > of "MAINTAINERS" [1], "samples/bpf/" [2] and "selftests" [3]
> > in the documentation "HOWTO interact with BPF subsystem" [4].
> >
> > As Jesper Dangaard Brouer said, the links work if you are browsing
> > the document via GitHub [5], so I think maybe it is better to use
> > the corresponding GitHub links to fix the issues in the kernel.org
> > official document [4], this change has no influence on GitHub and
> > looks like more clear.  
> 
> No, we really don't want to link to GitHub, that's what we have
> kernel.org for.

I fully agree.
I actually liked V3 better.

Back when I wrote the documentation with these links, the BPF doc was
not well integrated with the kernels doc-system.  It is today, so it
makes sense to remove the links (that happens to work on GitHub) as you
did in V3.

Today BPF documentation is nicely organized via this link:
 https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/bpf/index.html

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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer