The driver download url has changed......It was not this page when I push this patch.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:16 AM, ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > Since I have to deal with bad URLs on a daily basis, and just hit > another one yesterday in a different repo, sorry, my opinion on this > isn't up for changing. I actually thought (a long time ago) as you do > now, but my experience with URLs is not that happy. Sorry. I expect > that URLs will continue to make it into the repo one way or another, > but I will continue to oppose such practice. > > Committ messages are archival. At some point, when the Web was new, > people would put URLs in citations (me included). That practice has > started to come under fire in the archival literature due to the stale > link problem. What we did when the Web was new is not necessarily what > we do today. Few people in the 1990s anticipated the scale of the web > as it is today. It's far more useful to put a searchable string > (rocket systems 1984 superio with platinum thrusters) than a URL which > will almost certainly be bad in a few years. > > But if you're going to dump a URL in a commit message, for goodness > sake, at least have it point at something other than a form! > > ron > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- Yours sincerely, WANG Siyuan -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
