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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:13:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [KJ] patches: delete 75 unused files
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:05:20PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:08 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:54:39PM +0100, Domen Puncer wrote:
> > >  drivers/pci/hotplug/pcihp_skeleton.c
> > 
> > This is a "skeleton" driver, and is in the tree to be used as an example
> > for others who want to write a pci hotplug driver.  It should stay.
> > 
> > Along those lines, how come you didn't include the usb-skeleton.c file
> > in your list (it too should stay, but it isn't part of the build...)?
> > 
> 
> Why these drivers are under the build tree and not in Documentation/
> directory?

Because people don't expect to see source code in the Documentation/
directory :)

I don't really know, that's just the way these types of files have
always been (look at drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c and
drivers/net/isa-skeleton.c as where I got the idea to write
usb-skeleton.c and pcihp_skeleton.c from.)

thanks,

greg k-h

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