linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Documentation tree sub-directories reorg.

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Message-Id: <200811071317.19159.rob@landley.net>
Date:	Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:17:17 -0600
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	mtk.manpages@...il.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation tree sub-directories reorg.

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 17:23:45 Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:50:36 -0800
>
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> 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
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