On Tuesday 04 November 2008 17:23:45 Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:50:36 -0800 > > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I would like to use a few more sub-directories in the Documentation/ > > tree to try to help clean it up some. E.g., move some drivers/block/ > > doc files to Documentation/blockdev/ and move some serial/tty/chardev > > doc files to Documentation/serial/ > > This all makes fine sense to me, but I do wonder if we shouldn't also > create an "obsolete" subdirectory and put some of those files there? > For example, paride.txt starts off this way: > > Owing to the simplicity and near universality of the parallel port > interface to personal computers, many external devices such as > portable hard-disk, CD-ROM, LS-120 and tape drives use the parallel > port to connect to their host computer. > > Said ports are not quite as universal as they once were. Yeah, but the robotics guys guys love 'em as a really easy way to get controllable pinouts from PC hardware. :) No objection to the idea of a place to put obsolete docs, although "deprecated" might be a better name and it seems like it relates to feature-removal-schedule.txt somehow... Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
