From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Nelson Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:15:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] patches: delete 75 unused files Message-Id: <41B77CFE.9010302@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============66279466189343816==" List-Id: References: <20041208155439.GC31550@nd47.coderock.org> In-Reply-To: <20041208155439.GC31550@nd47.coderock.org> To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org --===============66279466189343816== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gustavo Franco wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:13 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >>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.) > > > Yes, i see more skel stuff inside the tree and i think that it needs > some discussion or at least don't use skeleton as part of a file name > that will be compiled. AFAIK, we've some of them sitting at > arch/m68k/..., but i can't check atm. What do you think? > > -- > Gustavo Franco -- > > Why not make a Documentation/driver-skeletons.txt? I can write it, if everyone can point me in the direction of where all the skeleton and example files are. Jim --===============66279466189343816== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors --===============66279466189343816==--