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From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: RFC iproute2 doc files
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:18:04 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:11:59AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I noticed that the iproute man pages are up to date but the LaTex documentation
> is very out of date. Rarely updated since the Linux 2.2 days.
> 
> Either someone needs to do a massive editing job on them, or they should just
> be dropped. My preference would be to just drop everything in the doc/ directory.
> The current versions are so old, they can't be helping.

FWIW, removing stale documentation sounds sensible to me.