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Henrik Austad a7ddcea58a 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in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps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List of outdated 00-INDEX: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 <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00
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leds-blinkm.txt LEDS: add BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS 2012-07-24 16:00:51 +08:00
leds-class-flash.txt Documentation: leds: Add description of v4l2-flash sub-device 2015-06-10 13:46:28 -07:00
leds-class.txt leds: class: Add new optional brightness_hw_changed attribute 2017-01-29 19:59:42 +01:00
leds-lm3556.txt Documentation: leds: Fix a typo 2013-08-26 17:22:12 -07:00
leds-lp55xx.txt Documentaion: leds: leds-lp55xx.txt: Fix typos 2017-03-17 13:06:14 -06:00
leds-lp3944.txt Documentation: leds: Fix a typo 2013-08-26 17:22:12 -07:00
leds-lp5521.txt Documentation: leds-lp5521,lp5523: update device attribute information 2013-08-26 17:22:13 -07:00
leds-lp5523.txt leds/leds-lp5523.txt: make documentation match reality 2016-11-22 12:07:02 +01:00
leds-lp5562.txt leds: lp55xx: configure the clock detection 2013-04-01 11:04:53 -07:00
leds-mlxcpld.txt leds: add driver for Mellanox systems LEDs 2016-09-15 16:49:39 +02:00
ledtrig-oneshot.txt Documentation: move oneshot trigger attributes documentation to ABI 2016-08-29 15:06:32 +02:00
ledtrig-transient.txt leds: add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation 2012-05-29 16:22:32 -07:00
ledtrig-usbport.txt usb: core: Introduce a USB port LED trigger 2016-09-27 12:20:17 +02:00
uleds.txt leds: Introduce userspace LED class driver 2016-11-22 12:07:02 +01:00