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Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: scsi: dc395x: Remove reference to 2.4 driver In-Reply-To: References: <20230505082704.16228-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <20230505082704.16228-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 07:34:43 -0600 Message-ID: <87pm7enbpo.fsf@meer.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Finn Thain writes: > On Fri, 5 May 2023, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > >> The 2.4 driver link returns 404. > > It's still potentially useful: > https://web.archive.org/web/20140129181343/http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/ > >> As no one runs 2.4 kernel anymore, > > Would it make a difference if someone does run that? Were you planning to > delete the source code for the 2.4 kernel too? Most of the 2.4 code has indeed been deleted *from current kernels*. It's not clear to me why 2.4 documentation should be immune to that same process. If we keep every 20-year-old reference, our docs will be even cruftier and less useful than they are now. Thanks, jon