[PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

Jens Axboe axboe at kernel.dk
Wed Sep 5 01:45:47 AEST 2018


On 9/3/18 4:15 PM, Henrik Austad wrote:
> This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
> and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
> way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
> 
> 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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
> the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
> a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
> anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
> 
> A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
> needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
> it is time to just throw them out.
> 
> A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
> counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
> is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.

For the block related bits:

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>

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