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

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Message-ID: <m37hqamlau.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:49:13 -0500
From:	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog

Hi,

   > 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.

Should we lose the others too, then?

pullcord:cjb~/git/linux-2.6 % du -sh **/ChangeLog
8.0K	arch/arm/nwfpe/ChangeLog
32K	drivers/char/ChangeLog
20K	drivers/parport/ChangeLog
16K	fs/befs/ChangeLog
100K	fs/ntfs/ChangeLog

Last changed dates:

arch/arm/nwfpe/ChangeLog  = 2003/03
drivers/parport/ChangeLog = 2001/10
fs/befs/ChangeLog         = 2002/03
fs/ntfs/ChangeLog         = 2007/10

The ntfs changelog is modified recently, but the ChangeLog text added
to it is duplicated as the commit message for each change, so those
ChangeLog entries are redundant -- they're already in the commit
history, unless you want changes from earlier than the initial import
cutoff in 2004, in which case you'd need the history repo for those.

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@...top.org>
One Laptop Per Child
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