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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1002190042080.30967@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:43:06 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Chris Ball <cjb@...top.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I think we could nuke them all, but I'd suggest first checking with 
> > maintainers of the code in question. It's possible that they do some kind 
> > of auto-import from some weird external repositories in which they 
> > auto-generate this Changelog file, so they might re-appear later (not 
> > everyone is using git even these days ... strange, but apparently true).
> 
> I think I'm the nearest thing to a parport maintainer these days - no
> objection from me there.

Good, thanks. I have queued patch that removes drivers/parport/ChangeLog 
and put 

	Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>

to it.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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