* [PATCH] doc: filesystems: proc: remove stale information from intro
@ 2025-08-27 11:37 Baruch Siach
2025-09-03 22:05 ` Jonathan Corbet
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Baruch Siach @ 2025-08-27 11:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-doc, Baruch Siach
Most of the information in the first paragraph of the
Introduction/Credits section is outdated.
Documentation update suggestions should go to documentation maintainers
listed in MAINTAINERS. Remove misleading contact information.
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 21 ---------------------
1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 2971551b7235..ede654478dff 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -61,19 +61,6 @@ Preface
0.1 Introduction/Credits
------------------------
-This documentation is part of a soon (or so we hope) to be released book on
-the SuSE Linux distribution. As there is no complete documentation for the
-/proc file system and we've used many freely available sources to write these
-chapters, it seems only fair to give the work back to the Linux community.
-This work is based on the 2.2.* kernel version and the upcoming 2.4.*. I'm
-afraid it's still far from complete, but we hope it will be useful. As far as
-we know, it is the first 'all-in-one' document about the /proc file system. It
-is focused on the Intel x86 hardware, so if you are looking for PPC, ARM,
-SPARC, AXP, etc., features, you probably won't find what you are looking for.
-It also only covers IPv4 networking, not IPv6 nor other protocols - sorry. But
-additions and patches are welcome and will be added to this document if you
-mail them to Bodo.
-
We'd like to thank Alan Cox, Rik van Riel, and Alexey Kuznetsov and a lot of
other people for help compiling this documentation. We'd also like to extend a
special thank you to Andi Kleen for documentation, which we relied on heavily
@@ -81,17 +68,9 @@ to create this document, as well as the additional information he provided.
Thanks to everybody else who contributed source or docs to the Linux kernel
and helped create a great piece of software... :)
-If you have any comments, corrections or additions, please don't hesitate to
-contact Bodo Bauer at bb@ricochet.net. We'll be happy to add them to this
-document.
-
The latest version of this document is available online at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/proc.html
-If the above direction does not works for you, you could try the kernel
-mailing list at linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and/or try to reach me at
-comandante@zaralinux.com.
-
0.2 Legal Stuff
---------------
--
2.50.1
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* Re: [PATCH] doc: filesystems: proc: remove stale information from intro
2025-08-27 11:37 [PATCH] doc: filesystems: proc: remove stale information from intro Baruch Siach
@ 2025-09-03 22:05 ` Jonathan Corbet
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From: Jonathan Corbet @ 2025-09-03 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Baruch Siach; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-doc, Baruch Siach
Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> writes:
> Most of the information in the first paragraph of the
> Introduction/Credits section is outdated.
>
> Documentation update suggestions should go to documentation maintainers
> listed in MAINTAINERS. Remove misleading contact information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 21 ---------------------
> 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)
I think this poor document needs a lot more love than this ... but it's
a start, I guess, so I've applied it, thanks.
jon
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