RFC iproute2 doc files

RFC iproute2 doc files

[Stephen Hemminger]

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is very out of date.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.

Re: RFC iproute2 doc files

[Simon Horman]

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 is very out of date.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.

Re: RFC iproute2 doc files

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:18:04 +0200
Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> wrote:

> 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 is very out of date.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.

I removed all the stale ones. The file ip-cref was occasionally updated.

Re: RFC iproute2 doc files

[Leon Romanovsky]

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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 is very out of date.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.

If my vote counts, I will say to drop it.

Thanks

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Re: RFC iproute2 doc files

[Stephen Hemminger]

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On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 10:31:09 +0300
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:

> 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.  
> 
> If my vote counts, I will say to drop it.
> 
> Thanks

They are gone now in current git repo. If anyone wants them they can
resurrect them from git and revise them.

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