From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262001AbTIJLOy (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:14:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262188AbTIJLOx (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:14:53 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:12210 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262001AbTIJLOw (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:14:52 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [Kernel-janitors] [PATCH] Remove modules.txt Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:14:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: kernel-janitors@osdl.org References: <20030910075240.F17CB2C75C@lists.samba.org> In-Reply-To: <20030910075240.F17CB2C75C@lists.samba.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309101314.41460.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:45, Rusty Russell wrote: > modules.txt contains mainly ancient information which is replicated > in the kconfig help message, README, makefile.txt or the modprobe manual > page. I found another such gem in Documentation/smp.tex, which was last updated more than five years ago. Favorite quote: "A single lock is maintained across all processors. This lock is required to access the kernel space." The whole file has only historic value and should probably be removed or have a comment that it does not apply to the current code. Arnd <><