From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 09:45:47 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1536012923-16275-1-git-send-email-henrik@austad.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1536012923-16275-1-git-send-email-henrik@austad.us> Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppe-linuxppc-embedded-2=m.gmane.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" To: Henrik Austad , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kandziora , kvm@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= , Peter Zijlstra , James Hogan , Linus Walleij , Will Deacon , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Masahiro Yamada , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Henrik Austad , Pavel Machek , "H. Peter Anvin" , Evgeniy Polyakov , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kent , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Paul Moore , Jonathan Corbet , Helge Deller , x86@kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 9/3/18 4:15 PM, Henrik Austad wrote: > This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned) > and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct > way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox. > > The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present > in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their > usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal > the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as > a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise > anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers) > > A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really > needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps > it is time to just throw them out. > > A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first > counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last > is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX. For the block related bits: Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe -- Jens Axboe