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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:20:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58648986219ce0173ff45d34def0da9f9f34b55f.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1535545728-8402-1-git-send-email-henrik@austad.us>

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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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 needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps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.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 16:20 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2018-09-03 10:55   ` Henrik Austad
2018-09-03 18:45     ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-03 20:32       ` Henrik Austad

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