[Trimming to author, linux-doc, and LKML for response.] On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 12:15:23AM +0200, Henrik Austad wrote: > 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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their 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 needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps 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. [...] > As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and > see where the discussion is going. Yes please. I was *briefly* tempted, reading through the files, to suggest ensuring that the one-line descriptions from the 00-INDEX files end up in the documents themselves, but the more I think about it, I don't think even that is worth anyone's time to do. Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
