Messages in this thread |  | | From | Miguel Ojeda <> | Date | Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:18:59 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: auxdisplay: remove obsolete webpages |
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On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 09:32 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 02/10/2018 01:56 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote: >> > Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> >> > Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> >> >> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> >> >> Are you merging this directly to Linus? or what? > > A generic negative of these removals, even for ancient > drivers that may or may not work anymore, is that the > old links may still be found on things like the > wayback machine/archive.org.
That is actually a good point. I just tried to pick it up in the wayback machine and sadly it only saved the error page from Apache when it was already gone. :(
> > Miguel, do you have a copy of this link source? > > If you do, should it be introduced as a .rst into > Documentation/ somewhere?
IIRC I had only some example usages and some photos of the device working with the driver, etc. The docs I wrote are in Documentation/auxdisplay/ (in particular the wiring required for the device), so that is fine.
I will see in any case if I have it in my ancient backups :)
Cheers, Miguel
> >> Thanks. >> >> > --- >> > MAINTAINERS | 8 -------- >> > 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS >> > index e6c26cb47d02..01e302f7967e 100644 >> > --- a/MAINTAINERS >> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS >> > @@ -2484,8 +2484,6 @@ F: kernel/audit* >> > >> > AUXILIARY DISPLAY DRIVERS >> > M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> >> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm >> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm >> > S: Maintained >> > F: drivers/auxdisplay/ >> > F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h >> > @@ -3373,16 +3371,12 @@ F: include/linux/usb/wusb* >> > >> > CFAG12864B LCD DRIVER >> > M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> >> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm >> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm >> > S: Maintained >> > F: drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864b.c >> > F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h > > Another suggestion would be to move > "include/linux/cfag12864b.h" into drivers/auxdisplay > >> > CFAG12864BFB LCD FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER >> > M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> >> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm >> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm >> > S: Maintained >> > F: drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864bfb.c >> > F: include/linux/cfag12864b.h >> > @@ -7866,8 +7860,6 @@ F: kernel/kprobes.c >> > >> > KS0108 LCD CONTROLLER DRIVER >> > M: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> >> > -W: http://miguelojeda.es/auxdisplay.htm >> > -W: http://jair.lab.fi.uva.es/~migojed/auxdisplay.htm >> > S: Maintained >> > F: Documentation/auxdisplay/ks0108 >> > F: drivers/auxdisplay/ks0108.c >> > >> >>
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