linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

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Date:   Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:20:30 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Henrik Austad <henrik@...tad.us>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/

On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 14:28 +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 in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their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.
> 
> A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer
> needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
> it is time to just throw them out.

Good idea.

.rst is becoming more common and these 00-INDEX files
are unnecessary and occasionally misleading.