Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update top level 00-INDEX file with new additions

Paul Gortmaker
2013-02-19T14:53:29Z

On 13-02-18 10:57 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 02/18/13 01:39, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>
>>> It seems there are about 80 new, but undocumented addtions at
>>> the top level Documentation directory. This fixes up the top
>>> level 00-INDEX by adding new entries and deleting a couple orphans.
>>> Some subdirs could probably still use a check/cleanup too though.
>
> After this patch, I would prefer to see a requirement that each Documentation/
> file contain a "topic" line and then generate INDEX files from those automatically...
>
> comments?

Rules can sometimes be so inflexible as to prevent additions.
I think I'd rather see a makefile target that does some sanity
checks, so that kernel janitors and the like are more apt to
send trivial patches before it falls behind by 80+ entries like
it was just recently. Just my $0.02 opinion.

P.
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>>> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>>> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> [vectoring this via trivial tree as requested by Rob]
>>
>> Applied, thanks.
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