From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walter harms Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:35:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] another potential KJ project -- cleaning out Documentation/ Message-Id: <45C60B68.6000405@bfs.de> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org 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 this case, deletion of outdated content *would* have its value since 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 out-of-date documentation can be annoyingly misleading and a real time 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 _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors