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Posted Sep 1, 2011 12:30 UTC (Thu) by SLi (subscriber, #53131)
In reply to: Worth a read by patrick_g
Parent article: Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

Argh, I had missed that again, and I blame solely the way LWN links to the mails on LKML.

Why on earth is it that

1) Every link to a mail on LKML on LWN shows that mail as the root of the thread

2) The threads seem to always be otherwise incomplete in a number of different ways

?

I believe there are good web frontends to LKML. Why always link on one that is so horribly broken?

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Posted Sep 1, 2011 15:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The first symptom is just the way gmane works: if you want to see the whole thread, click on the subject line. The threads are very rarely incomplete in my experience: gmane has good connectivity.

A lot of people likely read l-k via gmane, and if it was receiving only a partial feed, people would already have complained. It's probably your setup. (What web browser are you using?)

Gmane

Posted Sep 1, 2011 15:43 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

We link to gmane for one very simple reason: it can be done in an automated way. If we had to fish out links manually for every message we post, it simply would not happen at all. The gmane interface is a little funky at times, but it works well enough once you get the hang of it.

Gmane

Posted Sep 1, 2011 16:44 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Would be nice to see the LWN codebase become Free software. This is the sort of minor things that others could reuse in various places.


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