From a7ddcea58ae22d85d94eabfdd3de75c3742e376b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrik Austad Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 00:15:23 +0200 Subject: Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 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 The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their usefulness is brought into question.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A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps it is time to just throw them out.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. List of outdated 00-INDEX: Documentation: (4/10) Documentation/sysctl: (0/1) Documentation/timers: (1/0) Documentation/blockdev: (3/1) Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1) Documentation/locking: (0/1) Documentation/devicetree: (0/5) Documentation/power: (1/1) Documentation/powerpc: (0/5) Documentation/arm: (1/0) Documentation/x86: (0/9) Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1) Documentation/scsi: (4/4) Documentation/filesystems: (2/9) Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2) Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2) Documentation/kbuild: (0/4) Documentation/spi: (1/0) Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0) Documentation/scheduler: (0/2) Documentation/fb: (0/1) Documentation/block: (0/1) Documentation/networking: (6/37) Documentation/vm: (1/3) Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no 00-INDEX). I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX, but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not if we just want to delete them anyway. As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and see where the discussion is going. Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Paul Moore Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: [Almost everybody else] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX | 18 ------------------ 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX (limited to 'Documentation/blockdev') diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX b/Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX deleted file mode 100644 index c08df56dd91b..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/00-INDEX +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -00-INDEX - - this file -README.DAC960 - - info on Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller Driver for Linux. -cciss.txt - - info, major/minor #'s for Compaq's SMART Array Controllers. -cpqarray.txt - - info on using Compaq's SMART2 Intelligent Disk Array Controllers. -floppy.txt - - notes and driver options for the floppy disk driver. -mflash.txt - - info on mGine m(g)flash driver for linux. -nbd.txt - - info on a TCP implementation of a network block device. -paride.txt - - information about the parallel port IDE subsystem. -ramdisk.txt - - short guide on how to set up and use the RAM disk. -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151