From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:17:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100218181753.GJ5337@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100218095200.63509b8c@bike.lwn.net>
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:52:00AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> The ChangeLog file under drivers/char is 30K of stuff dedicated to the
> mid-90's TTY exploits of Ted Ts'o; it has been updated once since 1998
> - and that was in 2001. It's interesting history, but we don't
> normally carry that kind of history inline with the code. Let's remove
> it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Ah, for those good old days when Linus refused to use a SCM (may they
never return! :-)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-18 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 16:52 [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog Jonathan Corbet
2010-02-18 18:03 ` Alan Cox
2010-02-18 18:17 ` tytso [this message]
2010-02-18 22:00 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-02-18 18:49 ` Chris Ball
2010-02-18 22:02 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-02-18 23:37 ` Alan Cox
2010-02-18 23:43 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-02-19 6:06 ` Russ Dill
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