On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 6:15 PM Henrik Austad <henrik@xxxxxxxxx> 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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their 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 needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps 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. > > List of outdated 00-INDEX: 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. > > Again, sorry for the insanely wide distribution. > > Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@xxxxxxxxx> ... > Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <haustad@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/00-INDEX | 428 -------------------------------- ... Looks reasonable to me, you can add my ACK for the NetLabel bits. Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
