Hi, On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:14:54AM -0800, tip-bot for Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Commit-ID: 4e7f9df25874cedbbc604a5c5c2e7a6efe662387 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4e7f9df25874cedbbc604a5c5c2e7a6efe662387 > Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > AuthorDate: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:05:01 +0200 > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> > CommitDate: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:39:56 +0100 > > hpet: Drop stale URLs > > Looks like the HPET spec at intel.com got moved. > It isn't hard to find so drop the link, just mention > the revision assumed. While URLs unfortunately often are less permanent than possibly intended (details see useful entire sub content of "Aw: Re: Checkout hangs on invalid external URL" http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2015-11/0027.shtml) and thus too often need to be updated or even removed as a consequence, I feel that once an URL as a very reliable reference has been lost, naming of a file likely is the next most reliable fallback reference (to at least have feeding into an Internet search engine as the next fallback step). An alternative/second reference would have been listing the full title of this existing document, too. Thus I'm questioning whether the exact file name should in fact be removed here (at 3 locations even) by this commit, while at least usefully adding a (albeit somewhat weak) reference of "revision 1". > The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware follows a specification > -by Intel and Microsoft which can be found at > - > - http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf > +by Intel and Microsoft, revision 1. Oh, and I noticed as a curiosity (or so I thought) that this cleanup-style work is (to be made?) part of "x86/urgent", which I didn't expect to be defined as topically related. Thanks, Andreas Mohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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