linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add some missing Documentation/*/00-INDEX files

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Message-ID: <9a8748490708121010q7fe3bfbx8d4d8b997ed5fc72@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:10:56 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, "Rob Landley" <rob@...dley.net>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add some missing Documentation/*/00-INDEX files

On 12/08/07, Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Rob Landley is trying to organize Linux kernel documentation. One
> > thing he is doing is generating index.html files based on our
> > 00-INDEX files in the Documentation directory. He has met with a
> > small problem however, since not all subdirectories inside
> > Documentation contain such a file, nor are all the files that do
> > exist up to date, his index.html files turn up rather incomplete.
> [...]
> > I want to get some feedback before wasting too much time
> > creating these files
> [...]
>
> Isn't it with 00-INDEX just like with the "Last Updated:" footers in
> documentation texts?
>
That is certainly a risk, yes. But it shouldn't be hard to write a
small script to check if the 00-INDEX files are up-to-date, that will
make it pretty simple to update them once in a while if people forget.

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