[PATCH 1/1] include/ata.h: remove invalid links

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 04:57:51AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 2/25/20 10:30 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:04:53PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > 
> > > Remove invalid URLs for "Information Technology - AT Attachment-3 Interface
> > > (ATA-3)".
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> > > ---
> > >   include/ata.h | 4 ----
> > >   1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/ata.h b/include/ata.h
> > > index 3f4e4a0234..aecb9cd589 100644
> > > --- a/include/ata.h
> > > +++ b/include/ata.h
> > > @@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
> > >   /*
> > >    * Most of the following information was derived from the document
> > >    * "Information Technology - AT Attachment-3 Interface (ATA-3)"
> > > - * which can be found at:
> > > - * http://www.dt.wdc.com/ata/ata-3/ata3r5v.zip
> > > - * ftp://poctok.iae.nsk.su/pub/asm/Documents/IDE/ATA3R5V.ZIP
> > > - * ftp://ftp.fee.vutbr.cz/pub/doc/io/ata/ata-3/ata3r5v.zip
> > >    */
> > > 
> > >   #ifndef	_ATA_H
> > 
> > In this case, it looks like some of the relevant information about the
> > spec, "Revision 5v" is encoded in the URL.  I can't find a new link for
> > it, but we should keep that information in the comment.  Thanks!
> > 
> 
> Hello Tom,
> 
> revision 5v is an early draft of ANSI X3.298-1997. On Jan 27th, 1997
> there was a draft 7b. Google finds it when you look for 'ata-3-std.pdf
> site:github.com'.
> 
> The final standard ANSI X3.298-1997 is for sale here:
> https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/incits/ansix32981997

Yes.

> So I think we should simply point to the standard.

I think we need to note what revision of the standard we wrote to, for
future "hey, wait, there's a corner case we get wrong because we coded
to an old draft" issues.

-- 
Tom
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