linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog

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Message-ID: <20100218181753.GJ5337@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:17:53 -0500
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:52:00AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> The ChangeLog file under drivers/char is 30K of stuff dedicated to the
> mid-90's TTY exploits of Ted Ts'o; it has been updated once since 1998
> - and that was in 2001.  It's interesting history, but we don't
> normally carry that kind of history inline with the code.  Let's remove
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>

Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>

Ah, for those good old days when Linus refused to use a SCM (may they
never return! :-)

						- Ted
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