From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6A37D2EE for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727607AbeICXHN (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:07:13 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:49732 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727472AbeICXHN (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:07:13 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8B4674B7; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 12:45:45 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Henrik Austad Cc: Joe Perches , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ Message-ID: <20180903124545.089ead51@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20180903105542.GA9485@sisyphus.home.austad.us> References: <1535545728-8402-1-git-send-email-henrik@austad.us> <58648986219ce0173ff45d34def0da9f9f34b55f.camel@perches.com> <20180903105542.GA9485@sisyphus.home.austad.us> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 12:55:42 +0200 Henrik Austad wrote: > 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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their 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 needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps 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? Wider audience might be good. I've not yet decided whether I think this is a good idea or not. We certainly don't need those files for stuff that's in the RST doctree, that's what the index.rst files are for. But I suspect some people might complain about losing them for the rest of the content. I do get patches from people updating them, so some folks do indeed look at them... jon