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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
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	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Helge Deller" <deller@gmx.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 09:45:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cab5289c-7c53-28a8-b9b2-0c55c9f8d968@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536012923-16275-1-git-send-email-henrik@austad.us>

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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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 needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps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@kernel.dk>

-- 
Jens Axboe

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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Josh Triplett" <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	"Lai Jiangshan" <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Karsten Keil" <isdn@linux-pingi.de>,
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	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
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	"Paul Moore" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	"Helge Deller" <deller@gmx.de>,
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	"Ian Kent" <raven@themaw.net>,
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	"Henrik Austad" <haustad@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 09:45:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cab5289c-7c53-28a8-b9b2-0c55c9f8d968@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536012923-16275-1-git-send-email-henrik@austad.us>

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@kernel.dk>

-- 
Jens Axboe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-04 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-03 22:15 [PATCH] [RFC v2] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ Henrik Austad
2018-09-03 22:15 ` Henrik Austad
2018-09-03 22:15 ` Henrik Austad
2018-09-04  2:45 ` Josh Triplett
2018-09-04 10:41 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-04 10:41   ` Mark Brown
2018-09-04 11:30 ` Pavel Machek
2018-09-04 11:30   ` Pavel Machek
2018-09-04 13:59   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-04 13:59     ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-04 13:59     ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06 15:58     ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-06 15:58       ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-06 15:58       ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-06 16:01       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06 16:01         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06 16:01         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06 21:39         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-06 21:39           ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-06 21:39           ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-07  7:21           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-07  7:21             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-07  7:21             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-04 13:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-04 13:02   ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-04 15:45 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2018-09-04 15:45   ` Jens Axboe
2018-09-04 17:56 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-04 17:56   ` Mike Rapoport
2018-09-05 11:42 ` Paul Moore
2018-09-05 11:42   ` Paul Moore
2018-09-05 11:42   ` Paul Moore
2018-09-09 21:12 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-09 21:12   ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-09-09 21:12   ` Jonathan Corbet

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