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

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Message-ID: <loom.20100219T063902-409@post.gmane.org>
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:06:26 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog


> 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
>

There are several others scattered around

Archives of changelogs
16K	Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004
4.0K	Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-floppy.1996-2002
16K	Documentation/ide/ChangeLog.ide-tape.1995-2002
64K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997

Last updated in 1997!
14K     sound/oss/CHANGELOG

Updated periodically by Nick Cheng <nick.cheng@...ca.com.tw>
8.0K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.arcmsr

Updated periodically by various LSI employees
24K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid
16K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas

Added with driver in 2005, never updated
92K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc

Last updated 2002
8.0K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.ips
24K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx
32K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx
8.0K	Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx_2

But of course, there are changelogs in all sorts of other files as well, along
with severely outdated TODOs (such as Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt circa
2002)

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