Messages in this thread | | | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: scsi: dc395x: Remove reference to 2.4 driver | Date | Fri, 05 May 2023 07:34:43 -0600 |
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Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> 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
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