Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 11 authors, 2018-09-09

Re: [PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: 2018-09-04 15:45:47
Also in: dri-devel, kvm, linux-devicetree, linux-gpio, linux-ide, linux-mips, linux-pm, linux-s390, linux-spi, netdev

On 9/3/18 4:15 PM, Henrik Austad wrote:
This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.

The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)

A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.

A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
For the block related bits:

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Jens Axboe
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