From: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 12:55:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180903105542.GA9485@sisyphus.home.austad.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58648986219ce0173ff45d34def0da9f9f34b55f.camel@perches.com>
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:20:30AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 14:28 +0200, Henrik Austad wrote:
> > 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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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.
> >
> > A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer
> > needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
> > it is time to just throw them out.
>
> Good idea.
>
> .rst is becoming more common and these 00-INDEX files
> are unnecessary and occasionally misleading.
Ok, should I respin and clean up all the other files referencing 00-INDEX
and send to a wider audience?
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Henrik Austad
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 12:28 [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ Henrik Austad
2018-08-29 16:20 ` Joe Perches
2018-09-03 10:55 ` Henrik Austad [this message]
2018-09-03 18:45 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-03 20:32 ` Henrik Austad
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