Re: [PATCH] doc: update URL for sparse's tarballs

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Jun 26 2020 - 13:23:53 EST


On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 17:33:30 +0200
Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The URL given to get sparse's tarballs is sparse.wiki.kernel.org
> but the wiki will is deprecated in favor of sparse.docs.kernel.org.
>
> So, update this URL to the one where the tarballs can directly
> be found.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
> index 6f4870528226..8a7055593c31 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
> @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ sparse would otherwise report a context imbalance.
> Getting sparse
> --------------
>
> -You can get latest released versions from the Sparse homepage at
> -https://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
> +You can get tarballs of the latest released versions from:
> +https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/

I've applied this, but it also seems like we're losing some information by
going from a wiki straight to a directory listing. It seems maybe we need
a link to the new documentation site in here as well?

Thanks,

jon