Re: [KJ] another potential KJ project -- cleaning out Documentation/

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   not sure if this is a viable project, but it strikes me that there's
> a *heap* of stuff in the current 2.6 Documentation/ directory that
> could be either reorganized, updated or outright deleted.  and, in
> this case, deletion of outdated content *would* have its value since
> out-of-date documentation can be annoyingly misleading and a real time
> waster.
> 
>   in terms of reorganization, i think it would be nice to see more of
> a hierarchical structure.  for example, i can imagine a single
> "debugging" directory with all debugging-related text files.
> 
>   perhaps another one called "developers" which would contain
> everything related to submitting patches and drivers, and the
> submission checklist, etc, etc.  you get the idea.
> 
>   and in terms of outright deletion, not to pick on any one
> architecture but just grabbing something at random, there's a "cris"
> directory with a single README file for its contents, that begins:
> 
> Linux 2.4 on the CRIS architecture
> =================
> $Id: README,v 1.7 2001/04/19 12:38:32 bjornw Exp $
> ...
> 
> if this really is 2.4-specific content, its value in the 2.6.20 kernel
> tree is fairly low, if not non-existent.
> 
>   anyway, thoughts?  there's a lot of valuable info in the
> Documentation/ directory, but it seems to be getting increasingly
> buried under aging and obsolete content.
> 
> rday
> 

This CRIS processor is supported also with the 2.6 architecture.

re,
 wh


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